====== MODEL OF KNOWLEDGE ======

You look upon the multitude of loose notes, notebooks, electronic documents, digital spreadsheets either piling on your desk or scattered among your hard drive and you think, there must be a better way. Model Based Systems Engineering, at its essence, is built on a coherent source of truth from which you can slice and dice all you want but the truth remains. Why not apply the MBSE approach not only to Systems, those man-made things of steel, electrons and bytes, but to Knowledge itself?

There are many excellent Books of Knowledge out there including the Project Management BOK ([[https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/foundational/pmbok|PMBOK]]), Systems Engineering BOK ([[https://sebokwiki.org/wiki/Guide_to_the_Systems_Engineering_Body_of_Knowledge_(SEBoK)|SEBOK]]) and the biggest of them all, [[https://www.wikipedia.org|Wikipedia]], however they have some fundamental deficiencies not because of their content but because architecture - an architecture built around documents.

Documents and webpages are views of information from particular viewpoints (for example look up '[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometry|trigonometry]]' on wikipedia), maybe asking slightly different questions (and offering the answer) about the the main topic. Deficiencies of a document, connected or otherwise, include:
  - Change management and propagation is difficult
  - Inevitable inconsistencies between terms and definition (e.g. processes, frameworks, methods)
  - Static nature of documents means that a reader would need to either 'stitch' together different viewpoints, 'generalize' a document if too specific or 'specialize' a document if too general. Rarely would you find a document that satisfies your use case.

**Our vision** is to transform how knowledge is delivered, not through a collection of documents but through a Model of Knowledge (MoK) that supports different views so that a master and an apprentice can examine the same class of problems from different perspectives and gain understanding.

Though I have a model editor native to my PC I have not yet identified how to upload that model on [[https://www.fitzgeraldsystems.com/|Fitzgerald Systems]]. Knowing the deficiencies of BoKs I readily admit that documents are better than nothing at all and with this in mind I take a step back from the above vision to then create and maintain this wiki as a means to organize and consolidate the knowledge that I have gained. With content readily available I will at an undisclosed time, migrate this BoK to the MoK. A thousands miles start with a single step.

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