Talk:Metaknowledge

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I tagged this article for buzzwords. An opening like:

Metaknowledge or meta-knowledge is knowledge about knowledge. More precisely speaking, meta-knowledge is systemic problem and domain-independent knowledge which performs or enables operations on another more or less specific domain-dependent knowledge in different domains/areas of human activities.

makes me really wonder whether this is an article in search of something to be about. - Smerdis of Tlön 00:40, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I think, this subject rather relates to advanced fields of scientific research. Among others, it is used in the publications of the renowned world scientific centers as the Harvard and Stanford Universities, and emerge always more frequently in such scientific and engineering branches as artificial intelligence, cognitive science, socio-cognitive research and other interdisciplinary and systemistic studies. The above citation represents the socio-cognitive perspective of the TOGA meta-theory being developed in the Italian National Research Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA) since about 1990.

Knowledge has many definitions, therefore also meta-knowledge can be interpreted in different manners, anyway, its notion is the result of the connection of the meaning of prefix meta- with knowledge.

Maybe this concept requires explanations from another perspective yet. By the way, many strictly scientific terms present in Wikipedia are not comprehensible for many Wikipedia users (?).

The present article seems to be inuitively comprehensible (not buzzword) and I suggest to leave its interpretation and improvement to the field specialists. --Adam M. Gadomski 21:23, 25 March 2007 (UTC)