Architecture Knowledge Graphs - a Next Step in Architecture Knowledge Management

This paper stems from a reflection on the state of the practice of the use of architecture knowledge especially within the Dutch public and semi-public sector. We have observed that publication of architecture knowledge in semantic wikis has helped organize the semi-structured nature of that knowledge as combinations of text and model elements, and has enabled sharing and connecting knowledge that typically lives within individual model repositories. Increasingly, however, we encounter the desire and need to make architectural knowledge break out of their isolated repositories. From several examples that illustrate this desire, this position paper argues that a next step in architecture knowledge management entails the use of linked data principles and techniques to construct an 'Architecture Knowledge Graph'.