Intranets are one of the core components to their strategies. These contexts include locating information within an intellectual context, a personal context, and an interpersonal context. The intellectual context is largely based on traditional information architecture and uses hierarchical, relational, and functional taxonomies. However, locating information within all three contexts requires a careful blending of informational and personal taxonomies. In addition, a knowledge architecture requires that these taxonomies must be more dynamic than traditional information architecture requires.
Personal context creates the necessary infrastructure for intelligent personalisation.
While personalisation is enjoying a considerable press, actual implementations often leave users wondering what the hype is all about. The reason is usually to be found in a poor knowledge architecture that either overwhelms the user with total freedom or restricts their choices to largely cosmetic variations. Finally, interpersonal context provides the infrastructure for the creation and maintenance of virtual communities. The underlying knowledge architecture must support all these avenues with particular emphasis on capturing the tacit knowledge expressed within these virtual communities. This session reviews the proliferation of worldwide news media sites and new Web-only news services, including specialized news search engines and online archives.