The MiLo project concerns
the capture of knowledge from the FIPR phosphate expert,
Mike Lloyd.
This knowledge is characterized as "at risk"
because Mike
Lloyd is invaluable to FIPR, but, obviously,
will not forever be available to it. Following peer review
in October 2001, MiLo is now being extended to include
a significant number of other experts in phosphate production
and use. MiLo is also recognised as having model characteristics
for capturing and presenting knowledge from other domains and
Aleff Group welcomes approaches in this regard.
The knowledge capture process began
systematically in August 1999 and continues through the present.
It has been undertaken in two complementary ways, reflecting
the twin emphases in both FIPR’s mission and Mike Lloyd’s
work within it, of applied research and knowledge
dissemination.
Milo is atypical of FIPR’s
work in that the subject for research is a person not a topic.
To this extent, there is an analogy with portrait-painting,
and a similar expectation that both the subject himself, and
other viewers who know him, will when they see both, recognise
the relationship between the portrait and the subject.
