tomasszu / personal-knowledge-model

Part of my thesis “A model of personal knowledge”. This model is based on M. Polanyi’s insights in the book "Personal Knowledge" and enables the accumulation and actions of personal knowledge. Special emphasis is placed on the active transformation of tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge (inference).

personal-knowledge-model

This is an object-oriented program written in Java with person-specific knowledge instances

The functionality implemented in the object-oriented desktop app:

• Saving, editing and deleting knowledge
• Linking knowledge
• Separation of types of knowledge and determination of personal coefficient
• Easy review of knowledge and its connections
• Expression of new knowledge connections

Excerpt from the abstract of my work:

“A model of personal knowledge”
In M. Polanyi’s concept, personal knowledge is not considered objective, on the contrary, it depends on personal experience and subjective assessment. This paper will examine the possibilities of creating a model of personal knowledge. The model would enable the accumulation and actions of personal knowledge. Special emphasis will be placed on the active transformation of tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge. Possible recording forms of the model will be evaluated. It will be written as: an object-oriented program written in Java with instances of person-specific objects, an ontology described in OWL and visualized in the OWLGrEd tool, and a neo4j graph database structure. M. Polanyi’s insights in the book "Personal Knowledge" will serve as a starting point for determining the limitations of this model's knowledge structure and the functions associated with them.