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DIARY: March 9, 2003 07:08 PM Sunday; Rod Welch

John Deneen suggests a class on digital library for collaboration.

1...Summary/Objective
.........Analysis Demonstrated Methodology
.........Gift of Time and Power of Knowledge


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OHS/DKR Re-birth Through Learning from Bright New Contributors
Learning KM for OHS/DKR Re-birth from Bright New Contributors
PDF Topic Maps Show Promise of Progress Toward Knowledge Management
PDF Pictures Not Efficient for Com Metrics KM Takes Too Much Time
PDF Not Productive No Addressability Cannot Link
Dialog Maps Indexing Email for FAQ-style Organization Retrieval
Topics Classification Subjects Ontology Knowledge Organize Representa
Topic Maps Conceptual Graphs Method of Knowledge Representation, Josl
Park, Jack Topic Maps and RDF Expect New Developments Soon to Advance
Job to Make a Living Get an Assignment Limit Time John Has Available
Library Digital Class at Berkeley by Professor Robert Wilensky

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2413 -    ..
2414 - Summary/Objective
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241501 - Follow up ref SDS 42 P95O
241502 -
241503 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from John responding to a letter, ref DIP 2
241504 - 0001, submitted to the OHS/DKR group yesterday, ref SDS 42 SO6L,
241505 - asking who people are studying to learn Knowledge Management, noted in
241506 - Jack Park's letter, ref DRP 2 0001, sent earlier on 030308,
241507 - ref SDS 42 P95O, and in light of the evidence showing that studying
241508 - RDF, Topic Maps and so forth have not yielded a workable system.
241510 -  ..
241511 - John says today....
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241513 -     1.  Prof. Robert Wilensky, at UC Berkeley teachs a class in
241514 -         Digital Library Resources as a Basis for Collaborative Work
241515 -         Here is an overview of the current project and a Clustering
241516 -         demo relative to the important history of "The Fine Arts"
241517 -         Kobus's official demo (in PowerPoint), including more details
241518 -         about the capabilities of the Multivalent Doument Browser:
241520 -          ..
241521 -         RESIDU
241522 -         Multivalent
241523 -         Robust Hyperlinks
241524 -         Robust Locations
241525 -         CQF
241526 -         clustering
241527 -         shape
241529 -          ..
241530 -     2.  Afer your review and analysis of the above links, may be there
241531 -         is an interest to audit and/or register for the class for
241532 -         "sharing the bootstrap" after analyzing, evaluating and
241533 -         comparing with SDS technology?
241535 -  ..
241536 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to the OHS/DKR group responding to John's
241537 - letter, per above, ref SDS 0 UL4O, and saying....
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241539 -     1.  Thanks for the pointer to Bob Wilensky's important work at
241540 -         UCB, shown in your letter today.
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241542 -     2.  I have done a fair amount of review and analysis already,
241543 -         which resulted in SDS. ref DIT 1 QV6H For example, on 890523
241544 -         issues on flexible structure were reviewed. ref SDS 1 P13O
241546 -          ..
241547 -     3.  On 900303 connectionist theory in cognitive science was
241548 -         reviewed, ref DIT 1 SW7F, in relation to building knowledge
241549 -         through "stories." ref SDS 4 3016
241551 -          ..
241552 -     4.  On 900319 reviewed cognitive science in relation to the role
241553 -         of time, ref DIT 1 RY7M, in understanding human memory and the
241554 -         process of constructing causation. ref SDS 5 1323
241556 -          ..
241557 -     5.  Won't list it all, but there is a considerable body of
241558 -         research that underlies the design of SDS, which is summarized
241559 -         in POIMS, NWO, etc. SDS enables pulling this research into a
241560 -         coherent report in about 10 seconds covering some 15 years.
241561 -         SDS enables assembling several hundred primary views and
241562 -         thousands of subsidiary views that place research in useful
241563 -         contexts.  From what I can see of the main headings in your
241564 -         letter, Bob's class on library management addresses this
241565 -         objective. ref DIT 1 618K
241567 -          ..
241568 -     6.  On 001130 Jack Park wrote a letter to the group saying roughly
241569 -         that SDS has the right structure for knowledge, ref DIT 1
241570 -         U29K, and the interface that makes the structure useful for
241571 -         people. ref SDS 21 NQ43
241573 -          ..
241574 -     7.  So far as I know, there is nothing else available that does
241575 -         this.  Jack has done a lot of research, and he has not
241576 -         mentioned anything else. ref DIT 1 W44M
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241579 -     8.  Apart from Jack's generous comments, there is a body of SDS
241580 -         records demonstrating that SDS enables a routine intelligence
241581 -         process for converting information into knowledge, explained
241582 -         in POIMS. ref DIT 1 T55H  Under Drucker's criteria in his
241583 -         article on 991025, "routinizing" the application of cognitive
241584 -         science through technology, like SDS does, is a useful
241585 -         solution. ref SDS 7 0785
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241588 -     9.  As you and Eric Armstrong point out, SDS takes more than 20
241589 -         minutes to learn, ref DIT 1 T76I, which is understandably
241590 -         discouraging, as reported on 890809. ref SDS 2 5U6K
241592 -          ..
241593 -    10.  People have difficulty moving from IT to a new way of working
241594 -         with SDS that integrates a whole range of tasks, because, in
241595 -         the beginning, ref DIT 1 743F, transformation seems
241596 -         overwhelming, also noted on 890809, ref SDS 3 6162, but is
241597 -         none-the-less essential to augment intelligence for saving
241598 -         time and money and lives.  Bill Gates seems to agree, pointing
241599 -         out on 011108 that Microsoft is working on integration so that
241600 -         people can use more than 5% of the commands he has come up
241601 -         with over the past 20 years, which studies indicate is about
241602 -         what most people are using now. ref SDS 39 EFBE
241604 -          ..
241605 -    11.  In any case, this is a side issue relative to your suggestion
241606 -         for me to look at some links.  Since I am a proponent of links
241607 -         and crashed on opening links in your letter today, there is a
241608 -         burden to attempt an explanation that reconciles the disparity
241609 -         between offering links and not opening other folks links.
241610 -         ref DIT 1 OE4K
241612 -          ..
241613 -    12.  First, I clicked on a couple of links in your letter, maybe
241614 -         all of them.  These turned out to be more Powerpoint
241615 -         presentations. Limitations of Powerpoint for doing knowledge
241616 -         work were explained in a letter several days ago. ref DIT 1
241617 -         LG5H At that time, despite limitations, I bit the bullet and
241618 -         spent a couple of three hours or so analyzing the material you
241619 -         cited on MyLiftBits, as reported in the record yesterday.
241620 -         ref SDS 42 NO5S The only reason I did that was to demonstrate
241621 -         what "analysis" means.  Some months ago Jack suggested using
241622 -         "constructivist" methods, rather than hammer away trying to be
241623 -         instructivist. ref SDS 37 RN8L
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241627 -          ..
241628 -         Analysis Demonstrated Methodology
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241630 -    13.  I thought possibly demonstrating how to do "analysis" by
241631 -         taking specific language in source material and placing it the
241632 -         context of objectives, requirements and commitments, and then
241633 -         listing out relevant experience and commenting on
241634 -         correlations, implications and nuance, as shown by the few
241635 -         examples listed above, that this effort would be less
241636 -         instructivist and get closer to Jack's suggestion. ref DIT 1
241637 -         6A7F
241639 -          ..
241640 -    14.  The question of whether to invest time for anything always
241641 -         entails a cost benefit consideration.  Where people are just
241642 -         learning because nothing that has been tried so far has
241643 -         worked, indicated by Jack's letter yesterday, ref SDS 42 P95O,
241644 -         Bob's class might be useful. ref DIT 1 4C7O
241646 -          ..
241647 -         There is a different calculus where there is a system in
241648 -         place.  In this latter case, the core issue with respect to
241649 -         investing time for reviewing Bob's work at Cal is whether
241650 -         there is available work product demonstrating that anything he
241651 -         may present can advance the work already performed.  This
241652 -         places a threshold burden on people recommending new material
241653 -         to show relevance and potential for improvement. ref DIT 1
241654 -         QD8N
241656 -          ..
241657 -         An example is the USACE report that SDS implements Com Metrics
241658 -         that saves time and money at the rate of 10:1, which lines up
241659 -         pretty well with the general concept that knowledge is more
241660 -         powerful than information. ref DRP 1 0001  Your letter today
241661 -         would excite interest, if it said that something in Bob's
241662 -         class can reasonably be expected to increase the return to
241663 -         12:1 or 15:1, etc. ref DIT 1 LE9N
241665 -          ..
241666 -         Another issue that would be attractive is that Bob's class
241667 -         will help people grasp the power of deferred rewards, or
241668 -         overcome fear of accountability, or laziness, which Jack cited
241669 -         on 010908 as restraining transition to a new way of working.
241670 -         ref SDS 24 0001  If there is evidence that Bob knows anything
241671 -         about these big ticket issues, then that should be presented
241672 -         to support investing time for me to make the review you are
241673 -         proposing, ref DIT 1 EG4O
241675 -          ..
241676 -    15.  This is nothing new.  Recall that Eric Armstrong raised this
241677 -         issue on 011003. ref SDS 28 EC5N  At that time, Eric requested
241678 -         guidance on when to go off and invest time clicking on a link
241679 -         to something or other. ref DIT 1 WH6G  One criteria proposed
241680 -         is demonstrating some preliminary alignment with objectives,
241681 -         requirements and commitments.  Another criteria is analysis
241682 -         showing that people can save time and money and lives by
241683 -         implementation to replace or supplement whatever is being done
241684 -         currently. ref SDS 28 M16F
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241687 -          ..
241688 -         Gift of Time and Power of Knowledge
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241690 -    16.  These criteria suggest focusing research on things that have a
241691 -         demonstrated track record, under the general rule to:  study
241692 -         what works. ref DIT 1 QL3J  Recall Jack raised this idea on
241693 -         000504, and worried that for some reason there is reluctance
241694 -         to make that study. ref SDS 13 XD5M  This leads to the
241695 -         proposition that transformation from information to a culture
241696 -         of knowledge begins with study and ultimately requires
241697 -         opportunity to gain experience using a new way of working that
241698 -         integrates the gift of time with the power of knowledge.
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