Objectives of knowledge management

Examples of XML applications 
One widely adopted XML application is the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) ( www.
dublincore.org ), so called since the steering group first met in Dublin, Ohio, in 1995, which 
has been active in defining different forms of metadata to support information access across 
the Internet. An important part of this initiative is in defining a standard method of refer-
encing web documents and other media resources. If widely adopted this would make it 
much more efficient to search for a document produced by a particular author in a particular 
language in a particular date range. Up to now, it has mainly been applied within content 
management systems to assist in knowledge management for data on intranets and extranets 
rather than on the public Internet. 
The significance of XML is indicated by its use for facilitating supply chain management. 
For example, Microsoft’s BizTalk server ( www.microsoft.com/biztalk ) for B2B applica-
tion integration is based on XML. Since this is a proprietary standard, an open standard 
‘RosettaNet’ ( www.rosettanet.org ) was created by a consortium of many of the world’s lead-
ing information technology, electronic components and semiconductor manufacturing 
companies such as Intel, Sony and Nokia. BizTalk server enables different enterprise applica-
tions such as SAP and JDEdwards to exchange information as part of improved supply chain 
management. Microsoft summarises the benefits of BizTalk as: 
1 
Reduced ‘time to value’, i.e. development time and cost of application integration.
2 
Easy integration with virtually any application or technology.