Personal Knowledge Base (KB)

A Personal Knowledge Base (KB) is a Knowledge Base create by a single Agent.

• Examples(s):
  • Gabor Melli's Personal Knowledge Base http://GM-RKB/ (2009-present).
  • Birger Hjørland “Lifeboard for Knowledge Organization” http://www.db.dk/bh/lifeboat_ko/home.htm.
  • ...
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Group Knowledge Base.
  • a Corporate Knowledge Base (KB).
• See: Ontology.

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_knowledge_base Retrieved:2024-1-11.
  • A personal knowledge base (PKB) is an electronic tool used to express, capture, and later retrieve the personal knowledge of an individual. It differs from a traditional database in that it contains subjective material particular to the owner, that others may not agree with nor care about. Importantly, a PKB consists primarily of knowledge, rather than information; in other words, it is not a collection of documents or other sources an individual has encountered, but rather an expression of the distilled knowledge the owner has extracted from those sources or from elsewhere.

    The term was mentioned as early as the 1980s, but the term came to prominence in the 2000s when it was described at length in publications by computer scientist Stephen Davies and colleagues, who compared PKBs on a number of different dimensions, the most important of which is the data model that each PKB uses to organize knowledge.

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