In my series of articles, I have been discussing ways to combat Infoglut, the curse of the Internet. The Internet has dumped vast amounts of unordered information at our feet. This leaves us, as I have said before, drowning in information and starving for knowledge. Highlighting the way to simplicity This month, I want to discuss knowledge threads, the latest in our arsenal to combat Infoglut. Knowledge threads are common thoughts and ideas that span across documents and document collections.
Documents have a natural ability to automatically order knowledge into classes.
These knowledge classes can then be highlighted in different colors, creating a color-coded map of knowledge types that thread their way through document collections, helping readers quickly and efficiently lift meaningful knowledge off the page. You can then harness this knowledge for immediate learning and business value. Color-coding knowledge threads throughout document collections let's you quickly assimilate and harness knowledge buried in unstructured text across large volumes of documents. The technology already exists to help you do it. In the interest of full disclosure, I'm not personally aware of any other vendors who provide this type of functionality besides my company.