鄭淇云

With the advent of knowledge economy, knowledge becomes the most important assets of organizations. Knowledge management is consequently regarded as one of the promising strategies and methods for advancing an enterprise due to its ability to facilitate knowledge acquisition, organizing, storage, transforming, updating, sharing, and innovation. At the same time, as the rapid development of information technology and the widespread and profoundness of the internet environment, e-learning has become an emerging method to advance communication of organizations knowledge, and is often viewed as a part of knowledge management. Implementation of knowledge management and e-Learning thus become an inevitable trend for knowledge development of individuals and organizations. Since knowledge is the core of e-learning, it is also an element of KM. Therefore, the success of knowledge management and e-Learning relies heavily on the completeness of knowledge content and its ability to fulfill application requirements. It is necessary to provide a systematic approach for development of knowledge content and design of knowledge content repository to efficiently support knowledge management and e-Learning. The objective of this research is to develop a structured methodology for digital knowledge repository development, including the development process, and the goal, outputs, and related methods and technology of each step of the process, as well as to design and build a digital content repository using the proposed methodology. Through the knowledge repository established by means of the proposed methodology, the benefits that can be provided to organizations or individuals are as follows: (1) formalization and modeling of domain knowledge, (2) increasing the reusability of knowledge, and (3) allowing domain knowledge to be more easily sharing and conveying.