Leveraging Linked Data for Knowledge Management: A Proposal for the Aerospace Industry

Within a given subculture or industry, knowledge proliferates insofar as those outside the sphere of knowledge lack an understanding of the terms, concepts, and ideas specific to the domain. Moreover, collaborative work within large industries suffers from a lack of understanding between collaborators and from the use of nonstructured legacy knowledge artifacts. The aerospace and defense industries are no exception; indeed, they present examples of some of the largest industries with extensive projects and a diverse array of applications. This paper presents a state-of-the-art literature review of knowledge management and knowledge collaboration systems in the aerospace and defense industries. Based on the review findings, a proposal for an extensible and queryable knowledge management system for aerospace industry workspaces using the Web Ontology Language of the Semantic Web is presented.