Beacons & Horizons: Intelligent Research Networks & Next-Generation Knowledge Management John Brisbin, Facilitator Chris Day, Workshop Coordinator

We live in the middle of a lot of information

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What’s inside?

Give me a summary

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Text clouds Rough. But fast. And machine friendly

Rough. But fast. And machine friendly

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Terms in context...isolate phrases

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We want to exchange ideas. Easily.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) create it...display it...shareit.

create it...display it...shareit.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) create it...display it...shareit.

create it...display it...shareit.

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We have to negotiate shared understandings...

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Wikis: Handy Utilities http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org

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Beacons and Horizons

Panel Dr Renato Iannella Principal Scientist, National ICT Australia Martin Flanagan Chief Technology Officer Semantic Discovery Systems Richard Hale Australasian Consulting Group Paul Holland Business Consultant, Australian Centre for Interaction Design John Brisbin Senior Consultant, BoaB interactive

Dr Renato Iannella Principal Scientist, National ICT Australia

Martin Flanagan Chief Technology Officer Semantic Discovery Systems

Richard Hale Australasian Consulting Group

Paul Holland Business Consultant, Australian Centre for Interaction Design

John Brisbin Senior Consultant, BoaB interactive

Five aspects of knowledge systems.... Permissions Toolkit Business Fit Memories Horizons

Permissions

Toolkit

Business Fit

Memories

Horizons

Renato Iannella Collaboration in a Policy-Aware Web

Martin Flanagan Deep Content Discovery

Richard Hale Project Management, tools and the World of Research

Paul Holland Long and short term views of knowledge management

John Brisbin Knowledge management: an attitude

Key interfaces: human > digital digital > human The action is at the boundary layers...

“ Innovation is at the crossroads of traditional disciplines...” The action *is* at the boundary layers. - Peter Ungaro

Is your research making it to the crossroads? http://www.thinkcycle.org - Peter Ungaro

Networks are the humus in which knowledge lives and grows Projects are a procedural agreement about knowledge Management is about optimising the network rules

Rate of information production is astonishing And knowledge tools are keeping pace.

How do we know what we know? And talk about it through our machines?

Isn’t this a bit detached from ‘reality’? Orgs ARE knowledge Innovation DEMANDS networks The issues are ANCIENT It’s the context: COMPLEXIFYING

Orgs ARE knowledge

Innovation DEMANDS networks

The issues are ANCIENT

It’s the context: COMPLEXIFYING

Networks blossom in the presence of connectivity 1660: the first GPO 1665: someone leverages it.

Semantics are the new Post? http://www.freebase.org