Visualization Research On Discipline Architecture Of Domestic Knowledge Management

Since Karl Wiig formally put forward the concept of Knowledge Management(KM) in1986, it has passed by27years from now on.Through the tireless efforts of some theoretical researchers and practitioners, KM grew out of nothing, then expanded from small to big, now, it is under the vigorous development trend. KM is increasingly penetrated into all fields of social life, and become the key to core competence of a variety of organizations, individuals, and even one country.-In the process of the theory research, KM, absorbing the ideas, methods and techniques from other disciplines constantly, have formed a certain discipline foundation and established its own disciplinary position gradually. Since1987, many scholars represented by Library and Information Science(LIS), Management Science have made some positive explorations about the issue of how to build the disciplinary system of KM, the concept of "Knowledge Management Science " is also applied.In particular, under the common efforts of some scholars at home and abroad, a lot of visualization research tools which are used in discipline architecture have emerged, they can draw a variety of mapping knowledge domains of disciplinary system according to their different characteristics, which are convenient for people understand the structure of the subject areas distribution from the angle of graphics and provide a new method or idea for the study of discipline architecture.This study selects the related papers in the KM discipline from1998to2011of CSSCI as the data source, and chooses the CiteSpace software as its research tool, taking a series of basic method of visualization research, and describes the distribution characteristics of architecture about the domestic KM discipline more thoroughly, which are respectively from three aspects as research subject, knowledge base, research hotspot, frontier and trend of KM in China, and make a new and beneficial exploration of research mode in KM Science. This study aims to promote further enrich and perfect of KM Science, and hopes it could gradually developed into a systematic and comprehensive discipline. This study is divided into six chapters, some related problems of discipline architecture visualization in KM are analyzed and discussed.Chapter Ⅰ Research background and significance:The paper respectively expounds three research backgrounds including the basic concept of KM, the KM discipline architecture and discipline architecture visualization, it argues that the research of discipline architecture visualization has profound significance to development of the KM discipline; The paper also makes a review to the domestic and foreign related research at present and illustrates methods, ideas and innovations of this study.Chapter Ⅱ Data source and research tool:Select related journal papers in "KM" of CSSCI from1998to2011as the data source, and the CiteSpace software as its research tool.Chapter Ⅲ Research subject analysis of the domestic KM discipline:From three aspects including Author Co-occurrence Analysis, Author Co-citation Analysis and Institution Co-occurrence Analysis to do visualization analyses about the research subject(author and institution) of the domestic KM.Chapter Ⅳ Knowledge base analysis of the domestic KM discipline:From two aspects including Literature Co-citation Analysis and Journal Co-citation Analysis to do visualization analyses about the knowledge base(literature and journal) of the domestic KM.Chapter Ⅴ Research hotspots, frontiers and trends of the domestic KM discipline:As the core part of the study, according to functions and features of the research tool CiteSpace, this chapter adopts high-centrality keywords to confirm the research hotspots(object dimension and technical dimension) of the domestic KM discipline; uses the burst-words detecting technology and arithmetic function, and observes the time distribution of word frequency to determine the research frontiers(evaluation of KM implementation, research method of KM, education status of KM) of the domestic KM discipline, and predicts that there are three development trends of the domestic KM research:Open KM, Knowledge Governance and Just-in-Time/Real-Time KM. Chapter VI Shortage and prospect of the research:This chapter sums up three shortcomings of this study:the gathered source data is inadequate, inherent defects of the research tool and flaws existing in the research itself; Afterwards, the application of visualization method in other fields, some new topics of the domestic KM discipline are also discussed in the chapter.