META-KNOWLEDGE

Metaknowledge or meta-knowledge is knowledge about knowledge. More precisely speaking, meta-knowledge is systemic problem and domain-independent knowledge which performs or enables operations on another more or less specific domain-dependent knowledge in different domains/areas of human activities. Meta-knowledge is a fundamental conceptual instrument in such research and scientific domains as, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, and others dealing with study and operations on knowledge, seen as an unified object, abstracted from local conceptualizations and terminologies.

Examples of the first-level individual meta-knowledge are methods of planning, modeling, learning and every modification of a domain knowledge. The procedures, methodologies and strategies of teaching, coordination of e-learning courses are individual meta-meta-knowledge of an intelligent entity (a person, organization or society). Of course, universal meta-knowledge frameworks have to be valid for the organization of meta-levels of individual meta-knowledge.

According to the systemic definition of knowledge and the separation of the concepts: knowledge and information, meta-knowledge does not include information about specific domain knowledge.

See also

• meta-programming in Computer Science
• meta-philosophy
• meta-epistemology
• metaphysics
• meta-ethics
• meta-ontology.

External links

• Knowledge Interchange Format Reference Manual Chapter 7: Metaknowledge, Stanford University
• Meta-Knowledge Engineering, Management: Google search
• Meta-Knowledge Server of the Italian National Research Agency ENEA, (Adam Maria Gadomski).
• A Survey of Cognitive and Agent Architectures: Meta-knowledge, University of Michigan