Knowledge Products and Sharing Practices in a Public Organization Case Study

A qualitative case study dataset examining knowledge management in a public organization. It includes analysis of 134 publicly available knowledge products and transcripts from 14 semi-structured interviews with officials. The dataset was created by Joadine Freeman and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the nature and scope of organizational knowledge products based on the described document analysis.
• Studying knowledge sharing barriers and enablers based on themes from the interview transcripts.
• Modeling knowledge needs in local government based on the described qualitative data from subject matter experts.

Strengths

• Includes two distinct qualitative data sources: analysis of 134 documents and 14 interviews.
• Focuses on a specific, real-world organizational context within the public sector.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative tasks.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 146.9 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Data was gathered through document analysis of a knowledge hub and semi-structured interviews.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 13:33:01; freshness should be verified.