Université de Fribourg

The contribution of G. W. Leibniz’s ‘cognitio symbolica’ theory to current debates on knowledge and communication management

Ingenhoff, Diana

In: Semiotica, 2006, no. 158, p. 439-456

The aim of this paper is to clarify the concepts of knowledge to develop a better theoretical understanding based on one of the eldest semiotic insights from one unfortunately often forgotten philosopher of modern semiotic: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716). In his ‘Meditationes de Cognitione, Veritate, et Ideis’ (1684), he develops a systematical, dichotomous characterization of...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Visual representations in knowledge management : framework and cases

Eppler, Martin J. ; Burkhard, Remo A.

In: Journal of knowledge management, 2007, vol. 11, no. 4, p. 112-122

The purpose of this article is to explore the potential of visualization for corporate knowledge management. The employed methodology consists of a taxonomy of visualization formats that are embedded in a conceptual framework to guide the application of visualization in knowledge management according to the type of knowledge that is visualized, the knowledge management objective, the target...