Knowledge Life Cycle

As the title means it is a cycle that has no end. It describs how you compose the knoledge processes. As I mentioned in the "What is data,information and Knowledge"article there is no knowledge exist without information therefore the knowledge life cycle begins with information acquisition. from there it goes through several process and finally it comes to distribute the knowledge. but it has no final event since information has been changing all the time.basically knowledge life cycle has five steps as follows.
knowledge acquisition
knowledge modelling
knowledge annotation
knowledge reuse
knowledge maintenance
Further more we can have much extensive idea of the knowledge life cycle by studing following categories.
Information Acquisition
Individual and Group Learning
Knowledge Claim Formulation
Knowledge Claim Evaluation
Knowledge and Information Broadcasting
Knowledge and Information Searching and retrieving
Teaching
Knowledge and Information Sharing
The Distributed Organizational Knowledge Base
references:
Firestone, J.M., (2002), Origin of the Knowledge Life Cycle
Firestone, J.M. and McElroy, M.W., (2005), Doing Knowledge Management
Millard, D.E., David, Tao, F., Doody,K., Woukeu, A., and Davis H.C. (2006), The Knowledge Life Cycle for e-learning