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68 ORGANIZACIJA ZNANJA 2011, LETN. 16, ZV. 3 Presenting a technological project to a non-technological target category may be convenient by the following types of information: 1. Information about the project, expected results and a short explanation of how the expected results would influence a specific environment 2. Knowledge that enables bridging the gap between background knowledge and knowledge needed for a full comprehension (e. g. a glossary and a tutorial) 3. Information about the result that makes it possible to assess the influence of the result to a specific environment Information types can be conveniently replaced by document types (e. g. a leaflet, poster, presentation, paper, report, tutorial, data set, animation – presenting a technology, video clip); each document type implies the type of information it presents. Associations of project results and target categories (Figure 2) enable the determination of appropriate contents to be communicated to a target category. By matching contents with document types we determine, which document types best serve intended communications (Figure 6). When matching, imposed restrictions should be taken into account (e. g. a conference document types – poster, paper). Figure 6: Relation between project results, target categories and document types It is acceptable to associate more than one document type to a target category (a target category can be associated with more target audiences having different information needs). Document types enable associations of means for communicating associated documents. However, there are limits to these associations: availability of means for producing and rendering documents content. In more cases document types and means for communicating documents are determined by target category (e. g. a conference). DISSEMINATION SCHEME By joining all the decomposed tables into a tabular structure we get a scheme containing everything developed so far (Figure 7). Figure 7: Tabular structure of a dissemination scheme From this scheme different implementations can evolve (e. g. a single table, database, web service). By applying commutativity and transitivity relations we create a scheme for dissemination by composing the enumerated lists (represented by tables) (Figure 7) into a single table (Table 1). Dissemination scheme Result deadlines Project results Project partners Target categories Document types Table 1: Dissemination scheme A dissemination scheme gives us a pretty good insight into what is to be disseminated, when, by whom, to whom and in what detail. However, such a dissemination scheme is still not complete and needs further detailing (e. g. a target category may represent more than one target audience) and possibly extensions (undecided at this point of development). We also want to present to target audiences the project with its goals, general topics (e. g. theoretical foundations, methodologies) related to the project and possible exploitation of the results. And at any time we want to know the actual status (e.g. created, in progress, completed, stopped) of any dissemination action. This makes the dissemination scheme more complete. To meet these requirements we modify and extend the dissemination scheme (Table 2). Maksimiljan Gerkeš: DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE ...