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It is crucial to understand the structure and function
of communication systems in order to improve them.
[Learn more about Communication Systems Models.]
 
This is particularly true of their knowledge level.
[Learn more about Levels of Communication Systems.]
 
Unfortunately, as it is becoming increasingly critical
to do this, it is also becoming ever more complex.
 
The goal of this project is to elaborate the thematic
structures for describing key factors in communication
systems and the relationships among them.
 
Projects are a critical level of analysis that has been
selected as the central unit of definition to represent
communication systems at the knowledge level.
 
Today knowledge sytems, or projects, usually exist within
complex, continually changing distributed environments.
Therefore their continuation depends upon establishing
a system to obtain resources to support continuous
delivery, change, maintenance and expansion.
 
The challenge is to maintain balance between the human,
knowledge and media systems. However, this is difficult
because projects are dynamic systems with many complex
relationships that change over time.
 
At the present time, these pages contain pointers
to starting points and outlines of how this problem
is being approached. Essentially, the beginnings of
a coding system that will be applied to specific case
projects identified and documented by D-Projects.
 
In addition to a framework developed through the study
of specific projects (Hopper, 1993), other writings about communications systems (e.g. Gordon, 1975, Blake & Haroldsen, 1975), the levels of communication systems and the specific knowledge level will be used to explicate and elaborate analysis of knowledge systems.
 
Since this project began over 15 years ago, many more sources of high quality information on these topics have become available on the web. Most notable the Wikipedia. Therefore, this area of the site now features links to the extensive articles they have also posted on these topics.
 
Wikipedia Entry  knowledge management