An Overview of the Infrastructure for Storing Large Scale Knowledge Resources

Presently, a variety of multimedia information is explosively increasing and many knowledge bases have been built in various areas. It will be necessary to construct and use large-scale knowledge resources in every domain of research. Although various individual knowledge bases already exist, they are not easy to manage, extend and utilize, since they are developed with inconsistent concepts and dispersed over individuals, research organizations and research domains. In this paper, we discuss how to store large-scale knowledge resources when we build and exploit largescale knowledge resources in interdisciplinary researches such as the Tokyo Institute of Technology 21st Century COE Program titled “Framework for Systematization and Application of Largescale Knowledge Resources” [1]. Now we are developing an advanced information storage system “KnowledgeStore” [2, 3] as the infrastructure for storing large scale knowledge resources. This paper presents the functions and configurations of KnowledgeStore together with some examples of the external application systems.