Metaknowledge

Metaknowledge or meta-knowledge is knowledge about a preselected knowledge.

For the reason of different definitions of knowledge in the subject matter literature, meta-information is or is not included in meta-knowledge. Detailed cognitive, systemic and epistemic study of human knowledge requires a distinguishing of these concepts. but in the common language knowledge includes information, and, for example, bibliographic data are considered as a meta-knowledge.

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 a unified object/entities, abstracted from local conceptualizations and terminologies. Examples of the first-level individual meta-knowledge are methods of planning, modeling, tagging, 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.

Put simpler, metaknowledge may be linked to knowledge you need but you don't yet possess: it is a cluster of definitions and methods aiming to guide you in gathering the pertinent knowledge with regard to your activity.

See also

• Epistemic logic
• Knowledge
• Meta-
• Metaprogramming in Computer Science
• Metahistory, a book by Hayden White
• Meta-philosophy
• Meta-epistemology
• Metalogic
• Metaphysics
• Meta-ethics
• Meta-ontology
• meta-theory
• Metadata

References

• http://logic.stanford.edu/kif/metaknowledge.html
• http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=1629&d=23&h=5&f=3

External links

• Knowledge Interchange Format Reference Manual Chapter 7: Metaknowledge, Stanford University
• A Survey of Cognitive and Agent Architectures: Meta-knowledge, University of Michigan