Knowledge Libraries

What is a Knowledge Library?

A knowledge library contains pieces of knowledge to be further tailored and reused in different types of projects. A knowledge library is a combination of knowledge items, of different natures, and at different levels of abstraction. This knowledge is the representation of a business domain or area of knowledge.

The main benefits of using knowledge libraries are, among others:

  • The promotion of the quality principle: right the first time,
  • Enabling semantic search portals to archive and retrieve assets,
  • Thus providing tools to reuse assets at different levels,
  • Reducing time to market,
  • Improving the way engineers generate (author) new assets,
  • Enhancing the way items are inspected and verified,
  • Enabling real interoperability mechanisms and services,
  • Reducing time to elaborate documents, systems, and projects.

Knowledge Libraries for SES ENGINEERING Studio

The KM – Knowledge Manager included in SES ENGINEERING Studio can store Knowledge Libraries. A Knowledge Library might contain the same type of information as a regular Knowledge Base managed by KM – Knowledge Manager. So, the following picture provides a glance at what could be included in a Knowledge Library:

Knowledge library

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INCOSE Requirements Guide Knowledge Library

Focused mainly on the metrics defined as quality rules in the INCOSE Guide for Writing Requirements

NASA Requirements Checklist Library

Including specific NASA vocabulary and concepts as well as quality rules to cover the checklist for good requirements.

EARS Knowledge Library

Including mainly the patterns described as requirements syntax in the Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax

SOPHIST Master Patterns Library

Include Master Patterns and 18 rules for Requirements Engineering.

ECSS Knowledge Library

Including the glossary, requirements patterns as rules as defined by the European Cooperation for Space Standardization

Requirements with Numbers Library

Including 17 metrics, dealing with the numbers used in textual requirements.

BABoK® Library

Including a set of Quality Metrics covering the subsequent RADD characteristics and a set of Patterns applied to cover the nine RADD characteristics.