System and method for evaluating information aggregates by generation of knowledge capital

• US 20040117222A1
• Filed: 12/14/2002
• Published: 06/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Schirmer, Andrew L., Rokosz, Vaughn T., Zeller, Marijane M.
• Application Number:
  US10/319,171
• Publication Number:
  US 20040117222A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management

Abstract

Information in a database collection of knowledge resources is evaluated by collecting a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a shared attribute into an information aggregate; assigning to each document an usefulness value; and calculating and visualizing the knowledge capital of the aggregate as a sum of the usefulness values for all documents in the aggregate.

Claims

1. A method for evaluating information aggregates, comprising:

collecting a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a shared attribute into an information aggregate;

assigning to each said document an usefulness value; and

calculating and visualizing the knowledge capital of said aggregate as the sum of said usefulness values for all said documents.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising normalizing said knowledge capital by dividing said sum by the number of said documents.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising tracking changes to said knowledge capital over time.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

visualizing said knowledge capital for a plurality of categories.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

visualizing said knowledge capital for a plurality of communities.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

visualizing said knowledge capital for a plurality of geographies.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

visualizing said knowledge capital for a plurality of job roles.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

visualizing said knowledge capital for a person or group of people.

9. System for evaluating an information aggregate, comprising:

means for collecting a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a shared attribute into an information aggregate; and

means for identifying and visualizing aggregate knowledge capital for a plurality of categories, communities, job roles, geographies, and people.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising:

means for tracking changes to said knowledge capital of over time.

11. System for evaluating an information aggregate, comprising:

a metrics database for storing document indicia including document attributes, associated persons and assigned usefulness value;

a query engine responsive to a user request and said metrics database for aggregating documents having same, unique attributes in an information aggregate;

said query engine further for calculating aggregate knowledge capital values as the sum of said usefulness values of all documents in said information aggregate; and

a visualization engine for visualizing said knowledge capital values at a client display.

12. The system of claim 11, said visualization engine visualizing said knowledge capital values for a plurality of communities.

13. The system of claim 11, said visualization engine visualizing said knowledge capital values for a plurality of categories.

14. The system of claim 11, said query engine further for normalizing said knowledge capital values by dividing said sum by the number of documents in said information aggregate.

15. The system of claim 11, said visualization engine further for tracking changes to said knowledge capital over time.

16. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to a perform method for evaluating information aggregates, said method comprising:

collecting a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a shared attribute into an information aggregate;

assigning to each said document an usefulness value; and

calculating and visualizing knowledge capital of said aggregate as a sum of said usefulness values for all said documents.

17. The program storage device of claim 16, said method further comprising:

visualizing said knowledge capital for a plurality of categories.

18. The program storage device of claim 16, said method further comprising:

visualizing said knowledge capital for a plurality of communities.

19. The program storage device of claim 16, said method further comprising:

visualizing said knowledge capital for plurality of job roles.

20. The program storage device of claim 16, said method further comprising:

visualizing said knowledge capital for a person or group of people.

21. The program storage device of claim 16, said method further comprising:

visualizing said knowledge capital for a plurality of geographies.

22. The program storage device of claim 16, said method further comprising:

tracking and visualizing changes to said knowledge capital over time.

23. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to a perform method for evaluating information aggregates, said method comprising:

storing document indicia in a metrics database, said indicia including document attributes, associated persons and assigned usefulness value;

responsive to a user request and said metrics database, aggregating documents having same, unique attributes in an information aggregate;

calculating aggregate knowledge capital values as the sum of said usefulness values of all documents in said information aggregate; and

visualizing said knowledge capital values selectively for a plurality of categories, plurality of geographies, a person or group of people, a plurality of geographies, a person or group of people, a plurality of job roles, or a plurality of communities at a client display.

24. A computer program product for evaluating information aggregates according to the method comprising:

storing document indicia in a metrics database, said indicia including document attributes, associated persons and assigned usefulness value;

responsive to a user request and said metrics database, aggregating documents having same, unique attributes in an information aggregate;

calculating aggregate knowledge capital values as the sum of said usefulness values of all documents in said information aggregate; and

visualizing said knowledge capital values selectively for a plurality of categories, plurality of geographies, a person or group of people, a plurality of geographies, a person or group of people, a plurality of job roles, or a plurality of communities at a client display.