Sharing Semantic Resources among the Space Community: a Knowledge Management Issue

摘要

The advent of space 4.0 leads us to bring together actors who, according to former usages, evolved within microcosms that were more or less impervious or whose interfaces with other microcosms were stable. This stability guaranteed the identity of the objects or services exchanged. Today, we have gone through intensive innovation regimes and the European space sector must become globally competitive if it is fully integrated into European society and the European economy. This requires a sustainable space sector, closely linked to the social and economic base. In these circumstances, it becomes necessary to set up mechanisms for sharing and searching for information and knowledge that make it possible to overcome traditional disciplinary divisions and language barriers. Availability of semantic resources is a key factor to contribute to this goal. In this paper we will argue that semantic resources are knowledge about the linguistic resources that are used to support knowledge about space systems. In this communication we will show that the specification, creation, availability in an operational framework, and maintenance over time of these resources, is indeed in itself a large Knowledge Management (KM) project. One need for instance to consider it with regards to the different dimension of KM: its sociolinguistic and conceptual dimension, its technological dimension, its management dimension and its strategical /economical dimension. Considered as piece of knowledge per se, semantic resources should be qualified with respect to quality criteria such as their ability to satisfy requirements concerning search/discovery of information or long term preservation of knowledge.