A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING KNOWLEDGE

摘要

An intelligence system is provided that is comprised of the following basic components. First, a system for converting incoming unstructured data into a well described normalized form. Since the incoming data is multimedia and may represent some data type for which support is provided by the underlying OS platform, this normalized form includes the ability to fully describe and manipulate arbitrarily complex native or nonnative binary structures and collections. This support is preferably provided by a dedicated `mining' language tied intimately to a system ontology. In the preferred embodiment, such collections support the ability to attach arbitrary tags or annotations to the binary data they contain without in any way altering the binary representation itself. Additionally, the system supports the concept of either null or dirty (i.e., has been changed locally) datum.