Currently I am writing on a State of the Art review with three main parts, Knowledge Management, Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web.
Of these three there is only a solid definition of the Semantic Web. Web 2.0 and Knowledge Management are based on discussion and defined by O’Reilly as:
“Not having a hard boundary, but a gravitational core.”
A star exploding, empty core!
As the image above shows, this could indicate that there is not a real centre for the definition, a highly contested area, circled by numerous, partial, definitions, shapes and forms. This ‘paradigm’ is what needs to be caught in any document discussing the topic, in the case of O’Reilly this is a problem to describe Web 2.0, for me the problem is related to describing Knowledge Management.
Wish me luck, when I come up with the ‘definite’ definition I will post it here.
