A knowledge base is a special kind of database for knowledge management. It is the base for the collection of knowledge. Normally, the knowledge base consists of explicit knowledge of an organization, including trouble shooting , articles, white papers, user manuals and others. A knowledge base should have a carefully designed classification structure, content format and search engine.

The most important aspect of a knowledge base is the type of information it contains. A knowledge base that becomes a dump site of irrelevant information has its role degraded to that of an information dump. Making sure that the most up-to-date and relevant information is present in a knowledge base is essential to its success, not to mention having an excellent information retrieval system ( search engine ).

Determining what type of information, and where that information resides in a Knowledge base is something that is determined by the processes that support the system. A robust process structure is the backbone of a successful Knowledge base.

See also

• Ontology (computer science)
• OpenCyc
• RuleML
• Computability logic

External links

• High Performance Knowledge Bases
• Content Repository API
• Computability Logic Homepage
• A knowledge base for gathering IT knowledge
• Knowledge base information from JnanaBase
• A knowledge base for biology