Knowledge Plaza for Information Scientists

Sourcing Internal Information

Knowledge Plaza has the most powerful search capabilities in the field. Powered by Lucene, users are able quickly find information and create custom vertical searches in seconds.

• Find information by tag, full text, user, workspace or any combination of the above!
• Save any search or subscribe to RSS for information trapping
• Create email digests for saved searches

Sourcing External Information

Knowledge Plaza provides a single aggregation point for sourcing external information, whether it’s on the web, intranet or subscribed-to database.

• Custom google searches by categories of website (by tags, user, workspace)
• Light integration of all web based search locations (search engines, websites, databases)
• Light integration of intranet search resources (search engines, websites, databases)

Cataloguing and Indexing

The platform supports emails, documents, images, video, references, websites, discussions and more. Information can be tagged, commented, sent, grouped and access controlled.

• tag, annotate comment on and share all types of information
• all information is fully indexed and searchable
• workspaces, facets and tags aid discovery

Analysis and Assertions

Comments can be left on any item inside Knowledge Plaza allowing the exploration of ideas, assertions and feedback around information items. Users are also able to relate and reference items.

• leave comments
• create wiki pages relating to information items and information packages
• reference and relate items

Report Production

Probably the most exciting feature for Information Scientists is the ability to bundle information items into packages for annotation, collaboration and brokerage. Packages can be exported to PDF detailing all assertions, information items and references. In addition all referenced artifacts are exported with the PDF.

• group information into packages
• create wiki pages to add context to the information
• full export for sharing, brokerage or sale

Experts & Knowledge Networks

Knowledge Plaza ties information not just to tags, workspaces and facets but also to users and networks. This makes expert identification and leveraging easy and revolutionary. Users have the ability to use the expertise and content of their colleagues regardless of location or availability.

• identify and leverage subject matter experts
• create networks and collaborations
• subscribe to updates from your networks