With the development of Internet, information, news and data are more easily available for everyone however this glut of directly accessible data to people doesn’t guarantee them to find correct information quickly and efficiently. In order to organize and correctly used data, the science of Knowledge Management was been developed. This science allows better research and organization strategies and practices and is based on different tools and representations of data which permit users to better identify, understand and interpret information and the numerous and complex relationships between it. This Knowledge Management System (KMS) was done by three military students from Ensta-Bretagne (former ENSIETA) Kévin BRUGET, Nicolas BROCHETON, and Mathieu FERNANDES LOPES during their summer internship 2012 under the supervision of professor Ladislav BUŘITA (designer of the system) from the University of Defence, Brno, Czech Republic. The software used to realize this KMS is AToM, a topic maps software developed by AION CS company, Zlín, Czech Republic. The procession of the KMS MilUNI is outsourced in technology environment by AION CS Company, under management by Mr. Pavel GARDAVSKÝ.
The free access to the KMS MilUNI is possible at the addres:s: http://unob.atom2.cz/ using ID: MilUNI and password guest; use space UNOB and folder Military UNI.
Goal: Development of knowledge base for support of NATO (EU, European) Military Universities cooperation (MilUNI), support of education and research of the universities member.
Content of the KMS MilUNI:
- Educational and research organizations of the armed forces of NATO countries.
- Teaching, research and other activities in the field of information and knowledge technologies (I-KT), communication technology (CT), security technology (ST), computer-aided teaching (EDU), electronic and robotic systems (ERS).
- Development of knowledge-based description of countries according to the CIA FactBook.
- International cooperation between educational institutions in the European Union.
- NATO Centre of Excellence, Network Enabled Capability (NEC).
- Events and institutions related to the research and education (working groups, conferences, etc.).
Theoretical, methodological and technical principles:
- Theory of Topic Maps.
- AToM software for creating the knowledge-based system.
- Public information sources – the Internet.
- Documents supplied from the department.
- Language of the system – English.
Methodology of the KMS development::
- Collecting information sources and their processing; understanding the area of the knowledge system creation; utilizing analytical software.
- Training and preparation of the team.
- Clarification or explanation of the terms in the area in focus, hierarchy, creating taxonomies and dictionaries.
- Creating a knowledge base in the ATOM SW.
- Editing the ontology in the ATOM SW environment.