Sketching the overall context in which we will discuss and develop the idea of a "common descriptor language" as an interchange format for sharing (Fab Lab) documentation, independent of systems used at individual labs.

1. Common Description Language
Peter Troxler
trox@fabfolk.com
@trox
http://192.168.178.87:9001/p/FabFuse2_Co
mmon_Description_Language

2. STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF
GIANTS

3. © 2005, Lee Kindness

5. • information interchange format
• sharing documentation
• independent of system used at individual lab
“FabML” would be an XML definition tailored for Fablab project
documentation needs - including things such as controlled vocabularies for
machines and materials needed to complete a project in order to allow global
searchability and specifying and formalizing other aspects of manufacturing
(which will undoubtedly become more obvious as the project proceeds).

6. Lecture
Reading
Audiovisual
Demonstration
Discussion Groups
Practice by Doing
Teach Others/Immediate Use of Learning
Memory, Retention and Learning
Average Retention Rate
after 24 hours
5%
10%
20%
30%
50%
75%
90%
Source (maybe)
National Training Laboratories,
Bethel, Maine)
or:
Treichler, D.G. (1967) "Are you
missing the boat in training aids?"
Film and Audio-Visual
Communications
1: 14-16

7. Tacit
knowledge
to
Explicit
knowledge
Tacit
knowledge
Socialization:
Sympathized
Knowledge
Externalization:
Conceptual
Knowledge
from
Explicit
knowledge
Internalization:
Operational
Knowledge
Combination:
Systemic
Knowledge
Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995, The Knowledge Creating Company, Oxford. p. 72

8. • “[The] isolation from others is the necessary
life condition for every mastership which
consists in being alone with the ‘idea’, the
mental image of the thing to be.”
• “Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is
never possible in isolation; to be isolated is
to be deprived of the capacity to act.”
Arendt, Hannah (1958). The Human Condition. p. 161 | p. 188