University of Kalamoon

Faculty of Business &

Management

Establishment of
Knowledge Center

http://www.ewh.ieee.org
Kheder Durah, Ph.D.
ICT and Informatics Consultant
P.O.Box 5466 Aleppo, Syria
Email: kdurah@gmail.com
Mobile: 0944551257

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 Knowledge Center Definition

A Knowledge Center (K/C) is a virtual repository for collecting,

organizing, and disseminating knowledge assets (K/A) of an
organization.

Knowledge Assets are corporate intellectual resources of value to an

organization. They may take the form of documents, databases,
individuals, or groups of people, and include records of projects or
activities, knowledge maps, links to networks or communities of
practice, reports, standard operating procedures, patent
specifications, licenses, copyright material, taxonomies, glossaries of
terms, etc ...

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Knowledge Center Components

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Oman Bio Diversity
Knowledge Center Model

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CWANA Bio Diversity
Knowledge Center Model

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 The Mission
To establish a sustainable platform for consolidating knowledge assets
in UOK namely Knowledge Center which will be a one-stop-shop
window for the institutional scientific and research literature.

The Objective
Short Term
offer and make available a research infrastructure and human resources to every
Student, Staff, Professor, Management, Researchers, Visitors, Board Members
within UOK.
To act as scientific cooperating with the private sector.
To operate an outstanding research and development network in Syria and
thereby to enhance the country’s competitiveness to support economic
development.

Long Term
To operate as a center of excellence, which is one of the determinant
factors in academic innovations in Syria and can be linked to other
national, regional and international K/C thus making it globally recognized
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Knowledge Center Requirements

Hardware
Server Middle Class Computer running
Windows Server 2003 Standard, or Linux OS.

Software
Content Management System (CMS) namely
TYPO3 open source www.typo3.org.
Database Engine (Oracle, MS SQL, Fire Bird).

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 Content Management System
• Decentralized maintenance.
Features
Typically based on a common web browser. Edit anywhere, anytime. Bottlenecks removed.
• Designed with non-technical content editors in mind.
People with average knowledge of word processing can create the content easily. No HTML skills required.
• Configurable access restrictions.
Users are assigned roles and permissions that prevent them from touching content in which they are not authorized to
change.
• Consistency of design is preserved.
Because content is stored separate from design, the content from all authors is presented with the same, consistent
design.
• Navigation is automatically generated.
Menus are typically generated automatically based on the database content and links will not point to nonexistent
pages.
• Content is stored in a database.
Central storage means that content can be reused in many places on the website and formatted for multiple devices
(web browser, mobile phone/WAP, PDA, printer).
• Dynamic content.
Extensions like forums, polls, shopping carts, search engines, news management are typically drop-in modules. A
good CMS also allows for truly user defined extensions.

• Daily updates.
You do not need to involve web designers or programmers for every little modification - you
are in control of your website.
• Cooperation.
Encourages faster updates, enforces accountability for content editors via log files and
promotes cooperation between authors.
• Content scheduling.
Content publication can often be time-controlled; hidden for previews; or require a user login
with password.
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 Action Plan

1. Prepare project study for establishing UOK

Knowledge Center.
2. Prepare K/C team’s terms of reference.
3. Allocate the funds.
4. Facilitate the procurement of hardware,
software and technical services.
5. Establish Portal site
6. Monitor the use of technology thru timely
surveys.

Thank
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