**1. Introduction**

Fundamentals of knowledge creation, dissemination, and utilization are topics studied heavily in theoretical literature stimulating research in different kinds of social dynamics of knowledge and practice [1]. Others have focused on defining the different types of knowledge, "know-that" and "know-how" [2]. Within the vast scientific literature, "know-that" is referred to as factual knowledge or explicit knowledge while "know-how" is referred to as practical knowledge, tactile knowledge, or implicit knowledge [1].

Tactile knowledge is referred to as intuitive knowledge and rooted in experience, practice, values and it is hard to communicate as it resides in the mind of the person [1]. In the age of big data, explicit knowledge can be characterized as known facts that can be in documents or stored in the database, etc. The process of finding optimal methods to identify, create, organize, and share factual knowledge is at the

core of vast knowledge management systems. In many organizations, their effective functioning depends on many aspects in particular on the factual knowledge that can be derived from data about products, services, and customer base.

Within explicit knowledge, a combination of context, space, and time intro¬duces new aspects of knowledge that can be created to understand relationships of time within a specific space. Such knowledge is defined as spatial temporal and can be utilized in multiple domains. In this chapter we pay special attention to spatial-temporal knowledge with respect to how it is created, managed, shared, and applied to many real-world scenarios.

There are several questions that arise within spatial-temporal knowledge; how can it be created? How can one represent it? How can it be managed and shared?

To answer these questions, first Section 2 evaluates key elements in knowledge management which involve; knowledge creation, representation, processing, sharing, and application. Section 3 presents an overview of existing frameworks for spatial-temporal knowledge management and sharing and highlights existing challenges, Section 4 presents an innovative framework and outline principles that can be adopted in designing spatial-temporal knowledge systems. Section 5 demonstrates a theoretical application of the proposed framework using a use case scenario in a cyber-network domain.
