Knowledge Types

Types of Knowledge

Explicit Knowledge

Knowledge exists in either explicit or tacit states. Explicit knowledge is knowledge that has been codified in some way such as scientific journal articles, operating procedures, databases, etc.

Tacit Knowledge

Knowledge exists in either explicit or tacit states. Tacit knowledge refers to the knowledge that people carry in their minds. It consists of subjective opinions, intuition, feelings or judgments. People often do not explicitly know about their own knowledge stores.

Declarative knowledge

Declarative knowledge can be described like facts, propositions or schemas provide general knowledge about the behavior and functioning of forest ecosystems. It includes episodic knowledge (specific time and place events) and semantic knowledge (facts and general information.

Procedural knowledge

Procedural knowledge is about how to do things. The decision making process in natural resource management needs a lot of procedural knowlegde in order to make decisions.

Types of Information

Information is the result of processing, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the person receiving it. Information is a term with many meanings depending on context. See a definition in Wikipedia

Primary Information

Original material that has not been interpreted or analysied. Examples: Statistics, Research articles, Blogs, Websites

Secondary Information

Created from primary material, interpretating original material. Examples: Texbooks, Review articles

Tertiary Material

Acts as a tool in understanding and locating information Examples: Databases, Subject Gateways, Dictionaries, Bibliographies

Information according to the presentation type

• documents (laws, guidelines, lecture notes...)

• sounds (recorded words, music, sounds in general)

• videos

• images, pictures

• graphics

• plans

• maps

• source code

Types of Data

• Text

• Metadata
• alphabetical Data (Text/String/Character)
• numerical Data (numbers)

• alphanumerical Data

• Geospatial Data

• Logical states (Y/N)

• Date/time/

• currency

Types of Symbols

characters

A, a, B, b, C, c,

numbers

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10