CONTACTS 
0201 - SRI International                                                                                                                                                  O-00000103 1201
020101 - Mr. Jack Park;
020103 - CALO Project                                                                                                                                                     O-00000103 1201
0202 - Armstrong Consulting                                                                                                                                               O-00000767 0101
020201 - Mr. Eric Armstrong                                                                                                                                               O-00000767 0101

SUBJECTS
IEML Review Illustrates Subject Map Application Recommended Suppleme

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0903 -    ..
0904 - Summary/Objective
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090501 - Follow up ref SDS 14 0000. ref SDS 13 0000.
090502 -
090503 - Letter to Jack reports on reviewing a website he recommended following
090504 - the seminar on subject maps at SRI this past week.  Recommend Jack
090505 - consider sponsoring another seminar for dynamic Knowledge Management
090506 - constructing and using subjects with organic structure of context.
090507 - ref SDS 0 EV5Y
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090514 -  ..
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0908 - Progress
0909 -
090901 - IEML Subject Mapping Hard Work Organize Information into Knowledge
090902 -
090903 - Follow up ref SDS 14 OP7J.
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090905 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Jack responding to his letter, ref DRP 2
090906 - 0001, received on 060523. ref SDS 14 OP7J
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090908 -    1.  I looked at the website listed in your letter on 060523...
090909 -
090910 -           http://ieml.org/english/elements.html
090912 -         ..
090913 -    2.  The first page says to review "vision."  I found a link to
090914 -        "vision," and it was blank, except to say "Text to come."  The
090915 -        first page also said to check "grammar," and there was a list
090916 -        of 3 types of information "flux," 5 types of primitive
090917 -        components of flux, 4 levels of composition of flux somehow
090918 -        related to glyphs and ideograms, 3 forms of graphs for fluxes
090919 -        between glyphs. ref DIT 1 9X6G  This makes 3x5x4x3 = 180
090920 -        grammar choices, which makes KM a lot of hard work, reported on
090921 -        000307, ref SDS 3 5182, without tools like Open Iris and CALO
090922 -        to do some of the heavy lifting, as you proposed on 000623.
090923 -        ref SDS 4 2915, and later on 001025. ref SDS 5 LR6N
090925 -         ..
090926 -    3.  The first page of IEML says in part...
090927 -
090928 -            "All expressions of the IEML language are combinations of
090929 -            information flux between elements." ref DIT 1 Y47H
090931 -         ..
090932 -    4.  I draw a general impression that IEML is some sort of
090933 -        identification scheme. ref DIT 1 RR7L  The matrixes shown on
090934 -        page one may be "topic" or "subject" maps as discussed in the
090935 -        seminar at SRI on 060523, ref SDS 14 UK8X, although it appeared
090936 -        that at least the first speaker at your seminar presented
090937 -        markup for HTML.  Perhaps IEML is similar; this is not evident
090938 -        from the IEML website. ref SDS 14 UK6Q
090940 -         ..
090941 -    5.  Have you worked with IEML?  Can it be applied to daily work
090942 -        handling meetings, calls, and documents, for example analyzing
090943 -        medical test reports to strengthen the doctor/patient
090944 -        partnership for saving lives, time, and money? ref DIT 1 V68K
090945 -        Are there examples of work product like the 3rd speaker
090946 -        presented on 060523? ref SDS 14 UK8X  Is there an estimate of
090947 -        cost savings from adopting IEML that compares favorably with
090948 -        time invested to learn and use the system?
090950 -         ..
090951 -    6.  Your first and second speakers on 060523, ref SDS 14 UK4Y
090952 -        seemed to present ideas that address goals for Knowledge
090953 -        Management, ref SDS 14 UK6Q, similar to Eric Armstrong's letter
090954 -        on 011102, ref DIT 1 K59J, referencing a letter from Eugene
090955 -        Kim, which said in part...
090956 -
090957 -            "The question is, how do we take terabytes of mostly
090958 -            unstructured information, and structure it so that
090959 -            high-powered computers can do intelligent things with them?
090960 -            Having a small group of people spend decades manually
090961 -            structuring that information, like Lenat's team has been
090962 -            doing, is not a very scalable solution." ref SDS 7 YF5I
090964 -         ..
090965 -    7.  Eric went on to comment on efforts by Doug Lenat to accomplish
090966 -        KM, as defined by Eugene's letter. ref SDS 7 YG34  Research at
090967 -        that time on 011102, ref DIT 1 A64L, indicates the people who
090968 -        "launched" Knowledge Management with a seminar in 1993 had in
090969 -        mind improving productivity by making daily work more
090970 -        efficient. ref SDS 7 K37K
090972 -         ..
090973 -    8.  They proposed building tools for better judgment, decisions,
090974 -        and wit, ref DIT 1 HE5I, which generally translates into Doug
090975 -        Engelbart's formulation of augmenting intelligence, listed in
090976 -        his 1992 paper, reviewed on 991222. ref SDS 1 0786
090978 -         ..
090979 -    9.  It has proven difficult to accomplish this goal since the first
090980 -        KM seminar in 1993.  Research on 011102 shows that goals for
090981 -        learning support have proven elusive, ref SDS 7 01FT, and there
090982 -        is little progress on economic benefits essential for KM to
090983 -        take root and grow. ref SDS 7 01CO  We experienced this first
090984 -        hand working with Doug in 2000. ref DIT 1 SE6G  Your
090985 -        determination to stay the course therefore deserves attention.
090987 -         ..
090988 -   10.  At some point, you might consider a discussion, follow up
090989 -        seminar-type event, that presents how to translate tacit,
090990 -        implicit knowledge into explicit knowledge for performing daily
090991 -        work. ref DIT 1 TF6M  My feeling is that topic maps as
090992 -        presented on 060523, ref SDS 14 UK71, and in the example you
090993 -        submitted, discussed above, ref SDS 0 QM5I, are useful for
090994 -        macro research, but not for organizing the continuing stream of
090995 -        information from daily operations.  There appeared to be a few
090996 -        attendees on 060523 who were looking for ideas to implement
090997 -        with code.  Technology that moves the bar from subconscious to
090998 -        conscious mental processing, which is another way of stating
090999 -        the binary structure of implicit to explicit knowledge, would
091000 -        be a good project, as set out in POIMS. ref OF 3 JL6L
091002 -         ..
091003 -   11.  You might consider Jeff Conklin to speak on organizational
091004 -        memory, which is another aspect of the basic equation that
091005 -        separates personal from organizational memory, common sense,
091006 -        from uncommon sense, etc. ref DIT 1 UB4I
091008 -         ..
091009 -   12.  Thanks for referencing the IEML site. ref DIT 1 LB4O
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SUBJECTS
Subject Map Seminar Professional Conference at SRI Sponsored by CALO

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150502 - Armstrong Notified Results Seminar at SRI on 060523
150503 -
150504 - Submitted ref DIT 2 0001 to Eric Armstrong notifying him of comments
150505 - on Jack's seminar at SRI on 060523, per above. ref SDS 0 QM5I
150506 -
150507 -    1.  This letter to Jack on his seminar at SRI on 060523 references
150508 -        some of your work in the record on 011102, ref SDS 0 EV8T, so
150509 -        by copy giving you a chance to comment.  Sorry we missed you on
150510 -        060523. ref DIT 2 0001  Doug was there, and a few others from
150511 -        the prior effort in 2000. ref SDS 14 QM5I
150513 -         ..
150514 -    2.  Later, Jack sent a link to a website which he indicated
150515 -        supplements the SRI seminar on subject maps. ref DIT 2 3T6L  My
150516 -        letter today, shown below, reports on the review, and aligns
150517 -        with your analysis on 010914. ref SDS 6 UU8N
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150520 -    3.  Again, sorry we missed you at Jack's seminar. ref DIT 2 ET7J
150522 -         ..
150523 -    4.  Thanks for responding to the inquiry on the locality principle
150524 -        submitted 060426.  I thought your question about the meaning of
150525 -        "knowledge" on 000503 might be addressed with research on
150526 -        040312, ref SDS 8 YH4G, cited in the April letter. ref DIT 2
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