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The Wiig Model For Building and Using Knowledge

The Wiig Model for Building and Using Knowledge outlines four key dimensions for organizing knowledge: completeness, connectedness, congruency, and perspective and purpose. Completeness refers to how much relevant knowledge is available from a given source. Connectedness refers to the well-defined relationships between different knowledge objects. Congruency means all facts, concepts, and links within a knowledge base are consistent. Perspective and purpose acknowledges that knowledge is understood from a particular viewpoint for a specific use.

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The Wiig Model For Building and Using Knowledge

The Wiig Model for Building and Using Knowledge outlines four key dimensions for organizing knowledge: completeness, connectedness, congruency, and perspective and purpose. Completeness refers to how much relevant knowledge is available from a given source. Connectedness refers to the well-defined relationships between different knowledge objects. Congruency means all facts, concepts, and links within a knowledge base are consistent. Perspective and purpose acknowledges that knowledge is understood from a particular viewpoint for a specific use.

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The Wiig Model for Building and Using

Knowledge
Karl Wiig KM model (1993) highlights the following principle: in order for knowledge to be
useful and valuable, it must be organized. Knowledge should be organized differently depending
on what the knowledge will be used for.  Some useful dimensions in the Wiigs KM model are:

 completeness,
 connectedness,
 congruency, and
 perspective and purpose (Dalkir, 2011, pp.76-77).

Completeness refers to how much relevant knowledge is available from a given source. Sources
can vary from human minds to knowledge bases (i.e, tactic or explicit knowledge).We first need
to ascertain that the knowledge is out there, the knowledge may be complete if all the
information available on the subject is there but if no one knows of its existence, yjey cannot
make use of this knowledge (Dalkir, 2011, p.77).

Connectedness refers to the well-understood and well-defined relations between the different
knowledge objects. Most knowledge objects are connected to each other, the more connected a
knowledge base is then the more coherent the content and the greater its value (Dalkir, 2011,
p.77).

A knowledge base is said to be congruent when all the facts, concepts, perspectives, values,
judgments, and relational links between the objects are consistent. Most knowledge content will
not meet such ideals (Dalkir, 2011, p.77).

Perspective and purpose is a phenomena through which we know something but from a
particular point of view for a specific purpose. We organize much of our knowledge using the
dual dimensions of perspective and purpose (Dalkir, 2011, p.77).

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