Elicitation taxonomy for acquiring biodiversity knowledge

Abstract

Traditionally, knowledge is kept by individuals and not by institutions. This weakens an institution’s ability to survive and be competitive. Questions such as, how to maintain and manage knowledge of institutional interest regarding employee turn over and the information entropy problem, must be addressed. Evidence in the literature suggests gaps in the process of knowledge elicitation and acquisition. For a complex domain such as biodiversity, mechanisms are needed to acquire, record and manage knowledge with high level of expressiveness, which includes tacit knowledge. This paper presents techniques for eliciting tacit knowledge in the biodiversity domain to be used in a conceptual framework that integrates scientific knowledge. The main issues related to the knowledge elicitation process are presented, as well as the knowledge elicitation techniques used. As a case study, knowledge was elicited from INPA’s ichthyology group. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.