A Cooperative Approach to Corporate Memory Modeling

Abstract. Nowadays, the importance of Knowledge Management is growing in organizational contexts. Corporate Memory is an appropriate tool to represent organizational knowledge. This work presents an ontology-based approach to Corporate Memory modeling. In it, the members of an organization act as ‘knowledge builders ’ and they construct the Corporate Memory cooperatively. Furthermore, the employees who take part of the Corporate Memory construction process are allowed to use their own terminology, even for requesting information about the Corporate Memory until a specific instant