Navigating over heterogeneous engineering knowledge bases as a human-centred retrieval approach

Engineering practice faces an ever growing amount of information. To get the right piece of information at the right time is more than an irritating challenge; it can be of vital personal and corporate importance as soon as engineering tasks are regarded Real world objects such as documents, persons, topics or production facilities, i.e. all relevant items Of a specific domain, can be structuredfor a supportive ontology-based knowledge management tool. The objective of this paper is to present a human-centred navigation concept based on human retrieval techniques. The article introduces a template-driven navigation approach which allows to execute predefined queries.