Attention Metadata in Knowledge and Learning Man- agement

The paper outlines how attention metadata enables a tight integration between organisational knowledge stores and human resource management on the one hand and learning management system in corporate contexts on the other hand. The approach relies on an extension of AttentionXML, a metadata standard to capture the attention a user spends on digital content. We suggest relying on attention metadata to unobtrusively capture the attention of employees at the workplace (e.g. through workflow systems, knowledge management systems, human resource management systems, etc.) and use the captured information to enable a targeted steering of learning process of the employee in companies in accordance with company’s and employee’s aims and goals.