Building corporate memories in collaborative way using ontologies: Case study of a SSII

The task of Knowledge Management (KM) is to capture explicit and tacit knowledge of an organization in order to facilitate the access, sharing, and reuse of that information. Knowledge capital is a strategic asset in the achievement of the objectives, a major element for the survival of the organization. In this article, we present the importance of having a collaborative environment for managing corporate memories. We´ll first show the interest to use corporate memories to manage knowledge and/or documents. Secondly, we´ll propose a suitable interaction model to represent and manage corporate memories in collaborative way. Finally, we present PCOGEME, a collaborative environment based on brainstorming and consensual decision making mechanism to build corporate memories using ontologies.