Tacit Knowledge Database Management

This document provides a progress report for the IT/IS final year project.
This project is called 'Tacit Knowledge Database Management'. Through this
research, I will come out with the best method for storing information in the database.
The study is about the continuation of exiting system done by Mr. Ho Yik Min
(Acquisition of Tacit Knowledge Using Intervention Method). The further research are
more focus on the increasing of the number of intervention and the arrangement or
organizing the knowledge captured in the database in order to improve the system.
Knowledge Management taxonomy and ontology also have been studied to expand the
current work. The current system can be proven to be able to capture tacit knowledge.
Thus, knowledge captured should be organized and tagged so that it can be arranged
and stored accordingly to facilitate knowledge retrieval process and knowledge
upgrade. As the knowledge grows, the system would be able to store and retrieve
knowledge more effectively and efficiently.
Tacit knowledge is when a person reflects upon theory in the light of praxis or practical
judgment, the form of knowledge that results is personal. The entire introduction,
problem statement, objectives, and the scope ofthe studies for the project will befurther
explained in Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION. This document also gives further
information about the system the literature review/theory section. This section includes
the standard features of database system, as well as the benefits from using the database
system. Thus we can see that what we are looking at are 'human' factors, and this links
to the previous section relating to data, information and knowledge showing that
knowledge management is a technological 'fix', via structuring a good database system.
One of the most important factors that become clear is that the issue of trust needs to be
taken very seriously, such as the trust of technology solution, fellow workers, and
without trust knowledge will not be shared.