A Knowledge Component Framework for Enhancing Transdisciplinary Knowledge Assimilation

Abstract

Research shows that generating new knowledge is accomplished via natural human means: mental insights, the scientific inquiry process, sensing, actions, and experiences, while context is information which characterizes the knowledge and gives it meaning. Transdisciplinary research literature clearly argues for the development of strategies that transcend any one given the discipline and that enhance research collaboration.  A new framework, coined Recombinant kNowledge Assimilation (RNA), was constructed in this research. The framework was successfully applied recursively to abstracts from research manuscripts.  Using RNA, disciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge components and context were systematically discovered creating a mechanism to interact with dynamically changing research knowledge and assimilating it to form explicit new knowledge while simultaneously retaining the causal pedigree captured during manuscript processing.