pKADS
portable Knowledge Asset Development
System
Welcome to the pKADS Project Home Page.
pKADS was officially launched on December 10, 2003 at the World Summit of the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland. Pictured above from left to right: Dr. Tom Butler (BIS), Andrew Pope(BIS), Brendan O'Brien (UNFPA), Patricia Lynch (BIS), Dr. Joseph Feller (BIS), Prof. Ciaran Murphy (BIS), Brendan Tuohy (Secretary General, Dept. of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources).
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has developed a Knowledge Asset Development system (KADS), which it uses for capturing and sharing knowledge within the organization. Following requests from collaborating organizations, UNFPA undertook to create an open source, portable version of this system.
pKADS (portable Knowledge Asset Development System) was developed jointly by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and Business Information Systems, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Development was fully funded by the Government of Ireland, through the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources.
pKADS is a desktop application, written in Java, that can be used to create "Knowledge Assets," which:
- contain distilled, experiential knowledge on a particular subject, issue or process,
- present information in a question-and-answer format, organized into categories,
- help readers find related resources, such as examples, experts and documents for further reading,
- enable a community of "asset network members" to work together in developing and maintaining the asset.
Combined with appropriate workflows and organizational commitment, pKADS can help organizations implement effective knowledge sharing practices.
Key features of pKADS :
- Create and edit knowledge asset details (categories, questions and answers, objectives, resources, network members, etc.) in an intuitive desktop interface.
- Assets are saved both in XML format and as an interactive HTML frameset that is easliy publishable to a website.
- All asset XML and HTML files, together with local resource documents, can be packaged as a single zip file for sharing.
Extra Information can be found here:
Software
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