Development of a Knowledge Management
System for Energy Driven by Public
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Massimiliano Fratoni, Joonhong Ahn, Brandie Nonnecke,
Giorgio Locatelli and Ken Goldberg
Abstract The Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of California,
Berkeley, in collaboration with the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Department and the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom, is proposing to
create an open web platform that makes high-quality scientific data on energy
sources readily available, assembles those data into metrics more suitable to the
general public’s knowledge and interest (e.g. impact on the family’s budget or
green house gas emission), and visually renders such information in a straightforward manner.
Keywords Knowlegement management Á Web platform Á Metrics Á Nuclear
energy
1 Introduction
In the era of information technology a large amount of data is readily available at
everyone’s fingertips. Energy and its implications, scarcity or abundance of
resources, impact on climate change, emissions of pollutants, and more are topics of
global interest that receive strong attention across all media. Opinions, official
statements, and scientific data create a continuous flow of information. Nuclear
energy among all sources is the subject of strong debates with cohorts of supporters
and detractors ready to pinpoint its benefits or its drawbacks, respectively. In this
large pool of information, it is of paramount difficulty even for field experts to
isolate scientific data on energy, and to select reliable and coherent sources.
Furthermore, higher quality data are often packaged in scientific jargon and are
presented in forms and ways to which the general public does not relate
M. Fratoni (&) Á J. Ahn Á B. Nonnecke Á K. Goldberg
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
e-mail: maxfratoni@berkeley.edu
G. Locatelli
University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
© The Author(s) 2017
J. Ahn et al. (eds.), Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58768-4_10
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System for Energy Driven by Public
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Massimiliano Fratoni, Joonhong Ahn, Brandie Nonnecke,
Giorgio Locatelli and Ken Goldberg
Abstract The Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of California,
Berkeley, in collaboration with the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Department and the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom, is proposing to
create an open web platform that makes high-quality scientific data on energy
sources readily available, assembles those data into metrics more suitable to the
general public’s knowledge and interest (e.g. impact on the family’s budget or
green house gas emission), and visually renders such information in a straightforward manner.
Keywords Knowlegement management Á Web platform Á Metrics Á Nuclear
energy
1 Introduction
In the era of information technology a large amount of data is readily available at
everyone’s fingertips. Energy and its implications, scarcity or abundance of
resources, impact on climate change, emissions of pollutants, and more are topics of
global interest that receive strong attention across all media. Opinions, official
statements, and scientific data create a continuous flow of information. Nuclear
energy among all sources is the subject of strong debates with cohorts of supporters
and detractors ready to pinpoint its benefits or its drawbacks, respectively. In this
large pool of information, it is of paramount difficulty even for field experts to
isolate scientific data on energy, and to select reliable and coherent sources.
Furthermore, higher quality data are often packaged in scientific jargon and are
presented in forms and ways to which the general public does not relate
M. Fratoni (&) Á J. Ahn Á B. Nonnecke Á K. Goldberg
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
e-mail: maxfratoni@berkeley.edu
G. Locatelli
University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
© The Author(s) 2017
J. Ahn et al. (eds.), Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58768-4_10
127