Xpertum

Xpertum is an interactive a web-based tool for visualizing social networks to provide valued insights in the knowledge and innovation management processes, in terms of competences and individuals, which uses basically force-directed and clustering algorithms.

 

Since people could gain experience in several knowledge areas, it has considered the competences as levels of knowledge in a certain technical area or discipline, which users are dynamically involved inside the organizations. A 2-level competence hierarchy has to be defined to allow Xpertum to provide these types of visualizations.

 

The users can visualize relationships between two entities: competences and individuals through different views in order to analyze important aspects in the current social network.

XPERTUM is intended to provide a simple way to visualize social networks in five different views:

For more information on the tool "Xpertum":

Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)

Michael Sonsona
Msonsona@lsi.upc.edu

The main objective to connect individuals and competences is to highlight the relationship between them through the level of knowledge from individual to certain competence(s).

 

The distributed architecture of Xpertum allows the visualization to be shared by several devices connected to Internet. In order to facilitate the integration with other tools, a XML data file is required to proceed with the visualization process.

 

This tool is a prototype which is not only limited to provide visualizations but it adapts to social environment where knowledge concepts could be measured with a concrete value. Through xpertum, team leaders, human resources departments and others persons involved into innovation process could deploy this tool to analyze their social environment and/or to assemble a work team.

Xpertum can be accessed through the following url: