A systematic approach to occupational safety and health (OSH) management and concepts of knowledge management (KM) have developed independently since the 1990s. Most KM models assume a division of knowledge into explicit and tacit. The role of tacit knowledge is stressed as necessary for higher performance in an enterprise. This article reviews literature on KM applications in OSH. Next, 10 sec...

Existing Problem-Based Learning (PBL) problems, though suitable in their own right for teaching purposes, are limited in their potential to evolve by themselves and to create new knowledge. Presently, they are based on textbook examples of past cases and/or cases that have been transcribed by a clinician. In this paper, we present (a) a tacit healthcare knowledge representation formalism called...

The construction industry is perceived as one of the knowledge-based value creating sectors of the economy; however, it faces many challenges, especially in terms of performance, due to its intrinsic nature. Different knowledge-based solutions have been proposed in the past to overcome this problem. However, the process-based solutions, enhancing personalisation strategies and interactions betw...

IN this editorial, the third in a series of four on excellence in anesthesiology, I will give a brief introduction to the concept of tacit knowledge and discuss how qualitative studies can clarify its role in anesthesia. The series was introduced by Andrew Smith, F.R.C.A. (Consultant Anesthesiologist and Honorary Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Lancaster, United ...

The ‘knowledge economy’ is now widely debated and economic geographers have highlighted the ‘new regions’ ability to produce and disseminate tacit knowledge. However, there is concern that such work is responsible for the unfounded association of tacit knowledge with solely the local scale. Through examination of empirical material exploring the stretching of learning in advertising professiona...

The tacit knowledge paradigm is gaining recognition as an important source of knowledge that informs clinical decision-making. It is, however, limited by an exclusive focus on knowledge acquired through clinical practice, and a consequent neglect of the primordial and socio-cultural significance of embodied selfhood, precisely what provides the foundational structure of tacit knowledge of carin...

Software maintenance represents one of the most challenging tasks for software engineers. This can be attributed to many problems related to how software applications are built. However, the lack of enough historical knowledge about legacy software projects is a major software maintenance issue. Though software documentation is heavily used to guide maintainers tasks, but it only cater for docu...

During the development of OntoBio, a formal biodiversity ontology, it was observed that much of the knowledge of the expert, which was not included in the structured databases and allow ontology to be more expressive (tacit knowledge), was not represented, and thus ignored. Empirical evidences indicate that this knowledge is essential to help in generating knew scientific knowledge and conseque...

Institutions of higher learning appropriately use tutoring services to enhance students’ learning. Typically, professors recommend students who exhibit excellent academic skills in a particular course or program to student learning centers to work as tutors. Tutors gain problem solving knowledge in their specific domain. This knowledge which is ingrained in the minds of individual tutors but di...