| dc.description.abstract | Coming with the knowledge-based economic century, knowledge has become the most important asset of humans. Whether for organizations, enterprises or governments, trying their best to figure out how to manage their present knowledge and create new knowledge more effectively and efficiently is the most important task. As the result, this research indicates the application of knowledge management on collecting the information and knowledge of sustainable development. Also, the website which is meaning for by collecting those important information and knowledge, Sustainable Taiwan Information Net (STIN), is well-planned in this study. Since a common-accepted thesaurus was planned as the very first step to offer correct and useful information and knowledge in STIN, a Smart Thesaurus Information System for Environment (STISE) is developed in this study. It not only collects diffenent sources of thesaurus, but also provides functional tools for users to search, read, and understand related terms. The STISE collects both the Environmental Thesaurus published by the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) and the General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus (GEMET) published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). Moreover, it uses “Smart Tag” of Environment and “interactive web-page” to connect with subsystems of STIN, the Sustainable Development Knowledge Base (SDKB), and other searching engines. Users can not only use the subjects and definitions offered by the STISE to link to the related information and knowledge, but also contrast those unclear environmental vocabularies through reading them on-line at the same time. Additionally, users can employ the Smart Tag of Environment to connect to the STISE, SDKB and other searching engines, while editing documents and search for the definitions of terms and related information and knowledge. In conclusion, to develop these system and tools are really helpful for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of searching and using the information and knowledge of sustainable development. | en_US |