Knowledge Repo v0.9.3 documentation¶
The Knowledge Repo is a set of tools that manage a curated collection of “Knowledge Posts” along with a web interface to view and disseminate them. Knowledge Posts are representations of technical and non-technical documents that include document metadata, original source files, and a rendered Markdown file generated from them. The Knowledge Repo includes tooling to create Knowledge Posts from a variety of commonly used formats, such as Jupyter and R Markdown notebooks.
It was created at Airbnb to solve the problem of scaling technical knowledge dissemination within a growing team of data scientists, as sharing progress via one-off emails, documents, slideshows and git repositories was becoming increasingly impractical. It has since grown to be an indispensable method by which knowledge is shared not just between data scientists, but also with the rest of the company. We invite you to join us in deploying and using the Knowledge Repository in your workplace.
For more information about the motivation and inspiration behind this project, we encourage you to read our Medium Post.
Feedback¶
The Knowledge Repo is a reasonably complete internal publishing service, and we hope that you find it useful. If you have difficulties deploying the Knowledge Repo in your organisation, we would love to hear from you; particularly as it pertains to the following:
- How easy is it to set up the git knowledge post repository?
- How easy is it to set up the web application, and make it live internally within your organization?
- Where are the gaps in our documentation that we should fill in to assist others in understanding the system?
- At a higher level, are there any blockers or barriers to setting up the Knowledge Repo in your organization?