knowledgescience
Knowledgescience is an interdisciplinary field that studies knowledge as a phenomenon, a resource, and a social practice. Drawing on epistemology, information science, cognitive science, and data science, knowledgescience investigates how knowledge is created, represented, stored, shared, mediated by technologies, and used to support decision-making and innovation. It seeks both theoretical understanding and practical methods for managing knowledge in organizations, communities, and computational systems.
Core areas include knowledge creation and diffusion, representation and reasoning, learning and inference, knowledge retrieval and
Methodologies encompass ontological engineering, knowledge graphs, information retrieval, data mining, experiments, case studies, and metrics of
Relation to other disciplines is characterized by overlap with knowledge management and information science, while also
Applications span enterprise knowledge management, research data management, education technology, policy analysis, and AI system design.