Subject Matter Expert Responsibilities

Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are knowledgeable and experienced members of a community who use their knowledge of the discipline to judge what is important, groundbreaking, and useful. Any SMEs may be non-DAU staff, but only the Community Leader or Moderator may designate these members as SMEs.

Each Subject Matter Expert is expected to fulfill the following responsibilities:

• Enriching information through summarizing, combining, contrasting, and integrating information into the existing knowledge base
• Establishing the community's organizing structure
• Assisting in identifying and mapping critical knowledge applicable to the community
• Harvesting and creating new knowledge
• Working with the Community Leader and Moderator to ensure that knowledge objects are relevant, valid, current, and best sources
• Working with the Community Leader and Moderator to refresh and expand the knowledge base
• Suggesting potential topics for face-to-face community meetings and participating in those meetings
• Monitoring questions and participate in discussions
• Providing process analysis expertise
• Participating in the community as a member