four-causes:-collaborative-knowledge-base

Four Causes analysis on knowledge bases

Material: The knowledge that is contained. Formal: The structure of a knowledge base is determined by the links between pieces of knowledge.

Efficient: The process of generating knowledge is the human action of identifying the conceptual space needed to be filled and the process of filling it in through content generation and linking to existing content

Final: The purpose of a knowledge base is to have a navigable knowledge space that is useful to its users.