Knowledge Portal CD-ROM

The ageing of existing nuclear workforce, declining number of students studying nuclear subjects, decreasing number and the dilution of nuclear programmes and ageing research facilities are major current international concerns.

In line with IAEA’s initiatives and priorities in the area of nuclear knowledge management, the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security department has developed a Nuclear Safety Knowledge Portal to pool, analyze and share nuclear safety knowledge. It is the intention of the Agency to make the experiences of the portal available to the Member States and to support and provide guidance for the application of the portal according to the specific needs of the Member States.

In the framework of Technical Cooperation Project RAS/9/028 a CD-ROM has been developed containing tools and prototypes for the development of a nuclear knowledge safety knowledge portal. This CD-ROM contains files to be used as examples for the implementation of a nuclear knowledge portal. The main emphasis is laid in how to organize the knowledge domains in an organization, thus the content is intended only to give inspiration and ideas and should be further developed by the users to meet their specific needs.

A detailed knowledge management report has been produced describing the approach of the development of the portal.

The CD-ROM contains the following folders:

Portal
This folder contains files used as an example for the implementation of a simple Intranet with 8 knowledge domains. The files can be copied directly to a file or web server and be modified to reflect the organizations needs.

COP-Bulltin Board
This folder contains documents giving examples of computer programmes for Communities of Practice (COP) available through the Internet.Report
This folder contains the expert mission report by Dr. Shahid Mallick. The report should be read in conjuction with the usage of this CD-ROM.

Search Engines
This folder contains documents giving examples of computer programmes for search engines available through the Internet.

Yellow Pages
This folder contains an example of the implementation of an "find an expert" or "Yellow Pages" functionality. The example is developed in Active Server Pages (ASP) and thus will require a webserver based on Microsoft IIS. Click here to see a screen-dump of the Yellow Pages.