Building a Design-Rationale-Centric Knowledge Network to Realize the Internalization of Explicit Knowledge

A large number of publicly available documents, including patent documents and journal articles, can provide designers with creative stimuli, which could facilitate product innovation collaborative design. As an important tacit knowledge, the acquisition, sharing, reuse design rationale (DR) is great value to designers, help better understand intentions ideas, support automation, promote However, due fragmentation DR in documentation, this hinders designer acquisition reuse. If fragments be automatically extracted from technical build interconnected knowledge network system, problem would effectively solved, further development utilization digital archives. To address issue, study proposes a three-dimensional metamodel, Design Knowledge Semantic Network (DKSN), DKSN-based fusion method for construction (DKN). We set up empirical experiment verify feasibility performance method. Patent open access research articles are used as sample data dictionary imported ISO/TS 23768-1 predefined artifact dictionary. The results confirm good application prospects proposed