Research

• What is research?
• To a large degree it is a ubiquitous task.
• We all do research all the time. We look for phone numbers, find new recipes, go shopping, read books, and watch TV.
• A slight variant on the term is a key component to Knowledge Management.
• Research is one thing people do with corporate knowledge.
• There are two components here, the first is to understand existing explicit knowledge.
• The second is to generate new (explicit and implicit) knowledge.
• Another variant is academic research; this is a key activity of most academics and graduate students.
• Here there is a body of knowledge, and research tries to advance and disseminate that knowledge.
• In this module, we will focus on academic research, research in Knowledge Management, and research in Data and Knowledge Engineering.