Distributed Cognition and The Social WebBrynn Evans
Theories like Distributed Cognition may help us understand user interactions and information flows on social web services. I discuss theory, provide examples from research, and look at limitations of current thinking on measuring and studying social interactions online.
Ontological navigation will continue as long as the presentation of relevant information can be refined to ‘Intuitive Search’ and ‘Data Driven Research’ for a business world that is Gasping in a Gulf of information.
Netention is a system for interactively describing a community's present situation & exploring potential futures. People create networks of things, ideas, sentiments, intentions, assets, interests, tasks, locations, messages, parts… that compose semantic stories or processes waiting to become reality: a team, a product, a symphony, a diagnose, a learning journey... and Netention helps them discover opportunities that are mutually satisfying.
More info on http://www.automenta.com/.
Distributed Cognition and The Social WebBrynn Evans
Theories like Distributed Cognition may help us understand user interactions and information flows on social web services. I discuss theory, provide examples from research, and look at limitations of current thinking on measuring and studying social interactions online.
Ontological navigation will continue as long as the presentation of relevant information can be refined to ‘Intuitive Search’ and ‘Data Driven Research’ for a business world that is Gasping in a Gulf of information.
Netention is a system for interactively describing a community's present situation & exploring potential futures. People create networks of things, ideas, sentiments, intentions, assets, interests, tasks, locations, messages, parts… that compose semantic stories or processes waiting to become reality: a team, a product, a symphony, a diagnose, a learning journey... and Netention helps them discover opportunities that are mutually satisfying.
More info on http://www.automenta.com/.
This paper considers how hermeneutics and other related theories may bring new insights into KO. They provide a most realistic representation of the complexity of knowledge and meaning according to which new forms of KOSs could be designed. Computational and conceptual aspects of these issues are discussed taking into account a number of case studies.
Review of vicious and virtuous circles in the management of knowledge: The ca...Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar
Presentation on the scholarly paper "Vicious and virtuous circles in the management of knowledge: The case of Infosys Technologies" made during KM technologies course. Original credits to Raghu Garud, Arun Kumaraswamy and MIS Quarterly
Having proposed 'an idea worth sharing' in response to a challenge issued by this year's TED Prize winner-The City 2.0; Group Epignosis is pleased to announce its launch of Project Epignosis.
A version of this PowerPoint presentation was shown at a public briefing and reception detailing the initiative's plan to transform the (global) City 2.0 -- beginning in Roanoke.
You're invited to read, "Transforming the City 2.0 - An Idea Worth Spreading" at:
http://theemergenteconomist.blogspot.com/p/transforming-city-20-idea-worth.html
The Creative Process: inFORMATION
Copies are available for $15 including shipping by emailing info@programnature.org
Program:nature Zine 1 Summer 2007
This zine is one component of a multi-facetted platform under the same name. The central mission of Program:nature is to explore the principle formation, movement, and architecture of information with an underlying belief that our biological, social, and cultural systems can be understood through this framework. Our goal is to both advance new mathematical abstract systems capable of articulating the dynamic formation of complex patterns as well as research the direct manifestation of these concepts as they occur in our external world. In this sense, Program:nature is at the forefront of a meaningful paradigm shift in both pure and applied disciplines. Given that our manufactured world is confined to the limits of our understanding and concurrently reflective of both intellectual and sociological pursuits, i.e. modernism and the industrial revolution, Program:nature seeks to forward a movement towards understanding the engine of creativity, or in other words, that which is responsible for form and creativity in nature. This movement can be seen as a progression from stagnant and mechanical thought and structures towards the creation of complex and dynamic systems. The role of this zine is to elucidate these concepts through a more accessible and design oriented vernacular, with the goal of permeating collective ideological constructs. Hopefully through the articulation of these principles in a more real and familiar context, we can start to understand this new paradigm better. And then create
This paper considers how hermeneutics and other related theories may bring new insights into KO. They provide a most realistic representation of the complexity of knowledge and meaning according to which new forms of KOSs could be designed. Computational and conceptual aspects of these issues are discussed taking into account a number of case studies.
Review of vicious and virtuous circles in the management of knowledge: The ca...Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar
Presentation on the scholarly paper "Vicious and virtuous circles in the management of knowledge: The case of Infosys Technologies" made during KM technologies course. Original credits to Raghu Garud, Arun Kumaraswamy and MIS Quarterly
Having proposed 'an idea worth sharing' in response to a challenge issued by this year's TED Prize winner-The City 2.0; Group Epignosis is pleased to announce its launch of Project Epignosis.
A version of this PowerPoint presentation was shown at a public briefing and reception detailing the initiative's plan to transform the (global) City 2.0 -- beginning in Roanoke.
You're invited to read, "Transforming the City 2.0 - An Idea Worth Spreading" at:
http://theemergenteconomist.blogspot.com/p/transforming-city-20-idea-worth.html
The Creative Process: inFORMATION
Copies are available for $15 including shipping by emailing info@programnature.org
Program:nature Zine 1 Summer 2007
This zine is one component of a multi-facetted platform under the same name. The central mission of Program:nature is to explore the principle formation, movement, and architecture of information with an underlying belief that our biological, social, and cultural systems can be understood through this framework. Our goal is to both advance new mathematical abstract systems capable of articulating the dynamic formation of complex patterns as well as research the direct manifestation of these concepts as they occur in our external world. In this sense, Program:nature is at the forefront of a meaningful paradigm shift in both pure and applied disciplines. Given that our manufactured world is confined to the limits of our understanding and concurrently reflective of both intellectual and sociological pursuits, i.e. modernism and the industrial revolution, Program:nature seeks to forward a movement towards understanding the engine of creativity, or in other words, that which is responsible for form and creativity in nature. This movement can be seen as a progression from stagnant and mechanical thought and structures towards the creation of complex and dynamic systems. The role of this zine is to elucidate these concepts through a more accessible and design oriented vernacular, with the goal of permeating collective ideological constructs. Hopefully through the articulation of these principles in a more real and familiar context, we can start to understand this new paradigm better. And then create
PARC: Apr 1, 2011
Contested Collective Intelligence: Resilience, Complexity & Sensemaking
Simon Buckingham Shum & Anna De Liddo
Knowledge Media Institute, Open Learning Network Project
Open University UK
http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs
http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/anna
ABSTRACT
To thrive, organizational entities (learning communities; teams of analysts; formal companies) must make sense of a complex, changing environment. Our interest is in how sociotechnical “collective intelligence” infrastructures may augment this capacity. We are seeking conceptual lenses that illuminate this challenge, and draw ideas from resilience thinking, sensemaking, and complexity science. We propose that these motivate the concept of Contested Collective Intelligence (CCI), and give examples of how the Cohere platform is being designed in response to these requirements. This is a social/semantic web annotation and knowledge mapping environment, with tools for monitoring networks of ideas and generating novel analytics. We also report experimental integration with the Xerox Incremental Parser, in order to evaluate human+machine annotation of knowledge-level claims expressed through rhetorical moves in documents.
Simon Buckingham Shum is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Director (Technology) at the UK Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), where he leads the Hypermedia Discourse Group. Following a PhD at U. York in HCI/Hypertext/Design Rationale (sponsored by Xerox EuroPARC) he has developed a human-centered computing perspective to the challenge of computer-supported sensemaking, reflected in the books Visualizing Argumentation and Knowledge Cartography. He co-founded the Compendium Institute and LearningEmergence.net. http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs
Anna De Liddo is a Research Associate in KMi, where she works with Simon on the Open Learning Network project (olnet.org), focusing on the design and development of a Collective Intelligence infrastructure for the Open Education Resources movement. She gained her PhD at Polytechnic of Bari, investigating ICT for Participatory Planning and Deliberation, after which she held a postdoctoral position in KMi evaluating human-centred argument mapping for Climate Change. http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/anna
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Os dejo una presentación muy reciente de Stephen Downes, como referencia hacia lo que debemos tender como formadores en el contexto del Proyecto Guadalinfo.
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Take a journey into the Information Ecosystem where you will discover how structured information lives within your organization. Content is all around you—in places you may least expect. It exhibits predictable properties and behaviors that will help you capture and classify information for better management of your content.
Smart Cities - The IntelCities Project - The Community of Practice as a virtu...Smart Cities Project
This report outlines the IntelCities Community of Practice (CoP) in terms of the capacity-building, co-design, monitoring and evaluation exercises underpinning the (virtual) organization’s eGovernment (eGov) service developments. It describes the CoP in terms of both the defining features and characteristics of the e-learning platform and knowledge management system developed under the IntelCities project.
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ABSTRACT
It is common to view any artificially created entity as an extension of our human faculties. So it was with our early understanding of the World Wide Web. In the initial years, the Web was viewed variously as a very large database, a digital library or even as an extension of our thoughts. In this talk, I will argue that, far from the Web being an extension of ourselves, *we* are individual appendages to a large emergent characteristic space created by the Web. This is called the "Socio-Cognitive Space". Much like the "economy" -- an entity created by us, which in turn affects our financial well being, the socio-cognitive space that is created by us in turn influences what we think and even how we feel. The socio-cognitive space can satiate our scientific curiosity or strengthen our cognitive biases, stroke our inner-most desires or make us deeply outraged, create wise crowds or unruly mobs, and create a livelihood or drive people to suicide.
The socio-cognitive space is immersive and specific in its influence. Two people from the same family could be affected very differently by the Web, depending on their own innate characteristics. We are only beginning to understand the impact of this very powerful space, which is only going to increase in the coming years. I will also argue that arguments that view the Web as a whole as a great opportunity or a great threat, are both inherently missing the essence of the socio-cognitive space. Instead, I will draw concepts from Eastern philosophy to view the space as a collective "state of being" characterized by different levels of harmony or disharmony.
Social networks are a class of information networks, where the unit of exchange (acquaintance, knowledge, attention) is in terms of information, rather than physical material. Information networks are characteristically different from material networks. While material networks are primarily about transfer of energy, information networks are driven by the need to model or represent underlying semantics. In this talk, we will first look contrast information and material networks. We will then look into different kinds of semantics that can be discerned from the way information elements have been connected.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
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Aggregating Operational Knowledge in Community Settings
1. Aggregating Operational Knowledge
in Community Settings
Srinath Srinivasa
Open Systems Laboratory
IIIT Bangalore
India
sri@iiitb.ac.in
http://osl.iiitb.ac.in/
5. Commercial Clusters
● No organizational structure
● Individual shop owners join cluster autonomously
● No overarching reporting structure
● Collective action taken by consensus
● More organized than a crowd
● All shop owners have something in common
● Shared interests to collaborate and compete
● Communities: Generalization of Commercial Clusters
12. Encyclopedic Knowledge
Aggregates several local
perspectives to a global whole
Encyclopedic knowledge
A convergent process of
aggregation
No subjective versions
Local perspectives
Quality based on balancing
POVs
15. Operational Knowledge
Utility 3 Aggregates a set of common
knowledge into different local
utilitarian “worlds”
Well known
Common Subjective by definition. User is
Knowledge a part of the encoded
knowledge rather than an
outside observer
A divergent process of
Utility 1 Utility 2 “aggregation”
16. Operational Knowledge
● Most common to dynamics of communities
● Concerned with putting a set of common knowledge to
different uses
● Subjective by definition: what is utilitarian to one need not
be utilitarian to another
● User (consumer of knowledge) part of the encoded
knowledge base rather than an outside observer
● A divergent process: communities necessarily dilute their
common condition by utilizing it in different (interrelated)
ways
17. Aggregating Operational Knowledge
Essential requirements of operational
knowledge app:
Support a divergent phenomena with minimal
redundancies
Support mechanisms to fill cognitive “holes” in a
divergent process
18. Many Worlds on a Frame (MWF)
● Proposed data model for capturing a divergent
knowledge aggregation phenomena
● Partially implemented in an application called RootSet
(http://rootset.iiitb.ac.in/)
● Expressible as a superposition of two modal Frames in
Kripke semantics (a posteriori analysis)
20. MWF: Frame
Concept hierarchy Containment hierarchy
Inherits properties, Inherits privileges and
associations and world visibility
structure Rooted in a concept called
Rooted in a concept called UoD
Concept
21. MWF: World
A world is a concept that can
is-in is-a University host relationships between
concepts and host “Resources”
(Files, Media, Web links, RSS
feeds, etc.)
Department Course
Org Unit Activity
Concepts participating in a
world are “imported” from the
Faculty Frame and play a “Role” in the
Student World
Person
Person
Roles are connected with one
another with “Associations”
22. MWF: Instances
● Any concept that cannot be subclassed is
called an Instance
● In any instance of a world, a relationship
instance can be added between two concept
instances, iff a relationship type exists between
the respective concepts in the world type
ancestry
23. MWF: Privileges
● Users and privileges an integral part of operational knowledge
● MWF privileges broadly ordered into following levels:
● Frame-level privileges
● Structure-level privileges
● Data-level privileges
● Visibility privileges
● Privileges are inherited through the is-in hierarchy
● A user having privilege p in concept C will have a privilege at
least p in all concepts contained in C
24. MWF: World Creation
New worlds can be created in the following
ways:
● Simpliciter
Create and manually specify lineage (is-a, is-in ancestry)
● Clone
Create new world with same structure and is-a ancestry,
specify is-in ancestry manually
● Induce
Create new world within an existing world by inducing a
new world around a part of the structure. Specify is-a
ancestry manually
25. Cognitive Gaps
● Divergent phenomena entails knowledge base forking
off in different directions
● Diversified attention
● Reason for communities to be less efficient than
organizations
● Possibility of emergence of “Cognitive gaps” --
elements of knowledge that get left out because
attention is diversified
● Need for Cognitive “gap fillers” -- semantic
recommendations by the knowledge base
26. Cognitive Gap Fillers
Heuristics to suggest knowledge elements to fill
cognitive gaps:
Data level heuristics
● Principle of locality of relevance
– Instances that play a role in a world are typically found in
the vicinity of the world itself
● Birds of a Feather principle
– Similar instances play similar roles in similar worlds
27. Cognitive Gap Fillers
● Data level heuristics
● Resource diffusion principles
– Resources in a world are typically relevant to concepts that
play a role in the world
– Resources held by a concept playing a role in a world are
typically relevant to other concepts playing similar roles
● Structure level heuristics
● Triadic closure
– If concept A is related to concepts B and C in a world, the
greater the strength of the association by virtue of number of
instances, the greater the possibility that B and C are
semantically related
28. Cognitive Gap Fillers
● Structure level heuristics
● Clustering principle
– Concepts tend to form semantic clusters where
association among elements of a cluster are tighter than
associations across clusters