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3.10 Knowledge and Information Management System "Infomarket"

The optional module, information market is a functionality which can be used as a web-based information system for knowledge management. Each user participates in the maintenance of the information or contributions to the information market. Therefore usually, the system requires no moderation or editor.

The entrance is via a search box which displays the most popular and latest information. Either there is a link to the information or a term is entered into the search engine. In the following example, all direct and indirect information about Projectile is listed. In the following example, all direct and indirect information for the term Projectile is listed.

The information is accessed through the links as the basis from “knowledge”. There are hard links and soft links in infomarket.

In the example, the word “project management” is a hard link, which points either to another entry in the infomarket or requests another user to contribute information to this entry. The URL (www.infodesire.com) and the link to Projectile forms (Project EP Implementation) is also a hard link, but does not refer directly to information in the infomarket, but to a website and two project documents in the system.

The terms on the right side (Projectile, Backup, Java, ...) are so-called soft links and specifies information which has been called by the current entry. As in the human brain, more often used links are emphasized more in the list.

The following illustration displays the input dialog for infomarket: