CONTACTS 
0202 - SRI International                                                                                                                                                  O-00000103 1201
020201 - Mr. Jack Park;
020203 - CALO Project                                                                                                                                                     O-00000103 1201

SUBJECTS
Everything Miscellaneous Book Digital Computers Improve Traditional

2903 -
2903 -    ..
2904 - Summary/Objective
2905 -
290501 - Follow up ref SDS 34 0000, ref SDS 32 0000.
290502 -
290503 -
290504 -
290505 -
290506 -
290508 -  ..
2906 -
2907 - Progress
290801 -  ..
290802 - Everything Miscellaneous Records Management Itunes Example
290803 - Records Management Computers Improve Card Catalog Itunes Example
290804 - Itunes Card Catalog Computers Improve Traditional Records Management
290805 -
290806 - Follow up ref SDS 34 I19J, ref SDS 32 HE6N.
290807 -
290808 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Gary responding to Jack's letter,
290809 - ref DRP 2 0001, which failed to respond to the letter on 070830
290810 - requesting comment on explanation of unified theory of knowledge, per
290811 - above. ref SDS 34 F15M
290813 -  ..
290814 - Gary changed the subject to comment on Itunes and Everything is
290815 - Miscellaneous, which was reviewed a month ago on 070729. ref SDS 32
290816 - HE6N
290818 -  ..
290819 - Gary says in the letter to Jack...
290820 -
290821 -    1.  Read the excerpts and ordered the book. ref DRT 1 0001
290823 -         ..
290824 -    2.  Weinberger is correct about the impact of digital items not
290825 -        having to obey the same sorts of physical laws as physical
290826 -        objects. ref DRT 1 NG5K
290828 -         ..
290829 -    3.  The example of iTunes allowing a single body of songs to be
290830 -        organized in multiple ways is excellent.  The card catalogs in
290831 -        a library attempt to allow the books to be located in multiple
290832 -        ways, but each book still has to be in some one place.
290833 -        ref DRT 1 YG5O
290835 -         ..
290836 -    4.  The point about iTunes allowing users to develop and evolve
290837 -        playlists, share them, and rate them is a good indication of
290838 -        what flexible organization can allow. ref DRT 1 VG6K
290840 -         ..
290841 -    5.  Information aggregation in the form of topic pages, index
290842 -        sites, authority sites, etc. is also of interest. ref DRT 1
290843 -        7H7F
290844 -
290845 -           [On 080531 Morris gets a lot of email; tries to avoid filing
290846 -           everything miscellaneous by putting some documents in
290847 -           separate folders. ref SDS 37 U26H
290848 -
290849 -
290850 -
290851 -
2909 -

SUBJECTS
Units of Information SDS Many Communication Metrics Granular Address

5203 -
520401 -  ..
520402 - Units of Information Communication Metrics Measure Power of Knowledge
520403 - Granular Addressability Interface Structure Knowledge Useful to People
520404 - Information Units Enable Communication Metrics to implement Granularity
520405 -
520406 - Gary's letter to Jack continues...
520407 -
520408 -    6.  We are interested in a similar set of problems.  In the same
520409 -        way that iTunes discovered that the unit of songs is the track
520410 -        (a single song), we are struggling with the unit of
520411 -        information.  So far it has been convenient to use the
520412 -        paragraph as that unit.  I realize that Nexist Wiki allowed the
520413 -        author to define the Addressable Information Resource (AIR),
520414 -        but that is unusual.  The unit of information on the web still
520415 -        appears to be the page (URL) or even a document (first page).
520416 -        Granular addressability is still uncommon. ref DRT 1 ZH7J
520418 -  ..
520419 - On 970803 developed diagnostics for Communication Metrics. ref SDS 8
520420 - LY8S
520422 -  ..
520423 - SDS has many "units of information" for Communication Metrics, listed
520424 - below, ref SDS 0 JM9O, which support the flexible structure of
520425 - Knowledge Space defined in NWO, ref OF 11 PX6J, and shown in the scope
520426 - for intelligence support. ref OF 11 A56M
520428 -  ..
520429 - "Records" of daily work are the primary unit of information in SDS,
520430 - explained on 890523. ref SDS 1 TP8O  Line numbers enable flexible,
520431 - "verticle" fields, also explained on 890523. ref SDS 1 QB8J  Roy
520432 - Roebuck offered a useful explanation of SDS record as providing a
520433 - shallow outline, reviewed on 020217. ref SDS 19 3105
520435 -  ..
520436 - Flexibility aids creativity with "units of information" that aid
520437 - command and control of the record.  Integrating creativity and control
520438 - leverages the power of knowledge to complement explicit links for
520439 - granular addressability to provide precision access.  Complementarity
520440 - of forces yields synergy that lifts performance of the work, explained
520441 - in NWO. ref OF 10 JU8O
520443 -  ..
520444 - Units of information for Communication Metrics listed in NWO,
520445 - ref OF 11 FT9G, are summarized into 7 elements for a "well ordered
520446 - record" reported on 899523. ref SDS 1 TP8O  A deeper understanding of
520447 - SDS recognizes 12 units of information...
520448 -
520449 -          1.  Records
520450 -          2.  Time
520451 -          3.  Line numbers
520452 -          4.  Documents - books, letters, reports, plans, movies
520453 -          5.  Contacts
520454 -          6.  Words
520455 -          7.  Paragraphs = anchors = granular addressability
520456 -          8.  Links = connect cause effect yield power of knowledge
520457 -          9.  Headings
520458 -         10.  Segments = control fields
520459 -         11.  Subjects = organic structure of context
520460 -         12.  Action Items
520462 -  ..
520463 - SDS units of information support alignment that makes accuracy the
520464 - primary metric of communication discussed with Morris Jones on 950204.
520465 - ref SDS 4 8A4G  On 031008 Morris commended progress using SDS at an
520466 - aerospace company, and observed that benefits of better memory enabled
520467 - by SDS are better than forgetting. ref SDS 25 EQ8N  Years later on
520468 - 020924 Morris remained concerned about units of information for
520469 - Communication Metrics. ref SDS 23 LJ9L
520470 -
520471 -
520472 -
520473 -
520474 -
5205 -

SUBJECTS
Purple Numbers Abandoned Explicit Links Granular Addressability Give

7403 -
740401 -         ..
740402 -        Purple Numbers Abandoned Knowledge Management Give Up
740403 -
740404 -    7.  The Purple Numbers concept looked like it was going to develop
740405 -        traction, but it never did.  Chris Dent says that he is working
740406 -        with SocialText, but it doesn't support Purple Numbers.  I plan
740407 -        to ask him about that. ref DRT 1 QI8J
740409 -  ..
740410 - What evidence indicates "purple numbers" was or might develop
740411 - "traction" through use to improve daily work?
740412 -
740413 -            [...below, Jack Park seems to concur that granular
740414 -            addressability with explicit links called "purple numbers"
740415 -            have not been used. ref SDS 0 OV3G
740417 -  ..
740418 - Eugene Kim applied Doug Engelbart's ideas for explicit links, which
740419 - facilitate constructing trails of association, as a requirement to
740420 - make the paperless office model of Knowledge Management productive
740421 - with efficiencies of electronic records management proposed by
740422 - Vannevar Bush in 1945, and reviewed on 960304. ref SDS 5 GX59  Gary's
740423 - report today supports the case study on 070126 showing that all three
740424 - elements of Knowledge Management have failed. ref SDS 31 QH8L
740425 - Including case study showing people have not found tools that make
740426 - working intelligently "connecting the dots" of cause and effective
740427 - fast and easy. ref SDS 31 YV4F
740429 -  ..
740430 - On 000405 Doug Engelbart proposed OHS/DKR folks meeting at SRI use a
740431 - new way of working with links in email. ref SDS 11 2484  People
740432 - refused, illustrated by Eric Armstrong's letter on 000824. ref SDS 13
740433 - FJ5H  On 001025 Doug asked folks to use links to "purple numbers" he
740434 - put in the Launch Plan for OHS/DKR. ref SDS 14 00VU  On 001027 he
740435 - reported people refused. ref SDS 15 0001
740437 -  ..
740438 - Lack of use reported by Murray Altheim on 020820, ref SDS 21 UV6G,
740439 - explaining accuracy is not necessary for communication. ref SDS 22
740440 - VN6H, and experts who promoted purple numbers all seem to have given
740441 - up adding granular addressability for working intelligently.
740442 - ref SDS 21 0K64
740444 -  ..
740445 - On 050113 example of people who support granular addressability with
740446 - explicit links (purple numbers) have no links that apply the
740447 - technology they promote in correspondence over many weeks on launching
740448 - a publication for civic journalism aimed at promoting technology for
740449 - augmented thinking. ref SDS 28 5X5Q
740450 -
740451 -
740452 -
740453 -
740454 -
740455 -
7405 -

SUBJECTS
Everything Miscellaneous Itunes Granular Addressability Purple Numbe

A203 -
A20401 -  ..
A20402 - Indexing Separate from Record Linking Outside the Record
A20403 -
A20404 - Gary's letter to Jack continues...
A20405 -
A20406 -    8.  One other thing that the idea of iTunes playlists supports is
A20407 -        that indexing and linking need to be done by users outside the
A20408 -        body of material being indexed.  This was a point that Ted
A20409 -        Nelson made repeatedly, and Doug Engelbart addressed as well.
A20410 -        ref DRT 1 JJ8O
A20412 -  ..
A20413 - Doug's work was reviewed on 991222, including Bootstrap. ref SDS 9
A20414 - 0897  Discussion with Doug at that time did not seem to address the
A20415 - point in Gary's letter today. ref SDS 9 3977  Doug's 1962 proposal for
A20416 - SRI to develop Augment NLS was, also, reviewed on 991222, ref SDS 9
A20417 - 7H5H, showing considertion of subject indexing using 3x5 card manual
A20418 - system from his work in the 1950s. ref SDS 9 UD7F  This seems
A20419 - supportive of separate indexing noted in Gary's letter today.
A20420 - ref SDS 0 SG4W
A20422 -  ..
A20423 - On 000608 Doug demonstrated Augment NLS at SRI for the OHS/DKR team.
A20424 - The record lists "linking" among program features. ref SDS 12 4180
A20425 - There is no mention in the record of the "point" Gary cites today.
A20426 - ref SDS 0 SG4W
A20427 -
A20428 -             [On 071113 Jack Park explains understandings about Nelson
A20429 -             and Engelbart developing separate indexes for referenced
A20430 -             external sources. ref SDS 36 4S68
A20432 -  ..
A20433 - It seems difficult for linking to be effective without  referencing
A20434 - sources outside the current record or document.  Examples are
A20435 - biblographies in professional documents, and especially citations in
A20436 - briefs and opinions for legal work.
A20437 -
A20438 -
A20440 -  ..
A20441 - Context Management Indexing Construction for Differentiation
A20442 - Indexing Must Construct Differentiation for Context Management
A20443 -
A20444 - Separate indexing of document content rather than searching de novo
A20445 - every document, cited in Gary's letter today, ref SDS 0 SG4W, applies
A20446 - card catelog methods in library science used by researchers and
A20447 - writers for 2,000 years, noted by Vannevar Bush in his 1945 article,
A20448 - reviewed on 960304. ref SDS 5 PG5L  Google has made this method of
A20449 - indexing commonplace searching documents on the Internet.  On 070126
A20450 - research found that "search" has become the "holy grail" of computer
A20451 - productivity. ref SDS 31 B366  Experimentation on 050516 showed
A20452 - general indexing on computers seems slow, and fails to accomplish
A20453 - requirements for finding things, similar to searching files on the
A20454 - Internet. ref SDS 30 BQ68
A20456 -  ..
A20457 - Bush noted, however, in 1945 that "robust" indexing is essential to
A20458 - extend traditional library science in order to make the record useful
A20459 - to more than professional researchers and writers, i.e., "a few" who
A20460 - can spend a lot of time searching for documents to find correlations,
A20461 - implications, and nuance that relate findings to specific contextual
A20462 - scope.  People on the job, like engineers, executives, salesmen,
A20463 - doctors, lawyers who are busy communicating in meetings, making calls,
A20464 - and handling documents, do not have time for traditional research.
A20465 - Therefore technology must empower effective research without spending
A20466 - a lot of time.  This requires more robust indexing, noted by Bush in
A20467 - 1945, reported on 960304.
A20469 -  ..
A20470 - Context management differentiates organic structures of human "needs,"
A20471 - reviewed on 890523. ref SDS 1 XT6O  Business needs are commonly called
A20472 - objectives, requirements, and commitments determined by situational
A20473 - awareness.  Indexing keywords or groups of words with logical
A20474 - operators does not yield efficiencies of electronic records
A20475 - management.  The paperless office model requires empowers people to
A20476 - cope with expanding complexity from new realities that compress time
A20477 - and distance.
A20478 -
A20479 -
A20480 -
A20482 -  ..
A20483 - Context Management Makes Augmenting Intelligence Fast Easy
A20484 - Doing Nothing Always Much Faster than Doing Anything to Improve
A20485 - Assumption Doing Nothing Always Faster Easier than Doing Anything
A20486 - Everything Miscellaneous When Time Not Invested for Context Management
A20487 -
A20488 - Gary's letter to Jack concludes...
A20489 -
A20490 -    9.  The SDS Subject Index is an attempt to allow the user to
A20491 -        organize his information in whatever ways and in as many
A20492 -        different ways as work for him.  This is an extremely desirable
A20493 -        thing to do, but it is difficult to provide tools that help
A20494 -        with this enough to bring the effort required low enough that
A20495 -        people will actually do it. ref DRT 1 DK9K
A20497 -  ..
A20498 - On 960304 research shows that in 1945 Vannevar Bush proposed computers
A20499 - can enable "paperless office" efficiencies of electronic records
A20500 - management, and requires complementarity with indexing more robust
A20501 - than a library card catelog, and further requires comprehensive
A20502 - linking to construct trails of association. ref SDS 5 GX59
A20504 -  ..
A20505 - Experience using SDS shows that complementarity must extend to
A20506 - ergonomics that optimize efficient usability in order to make
A20507 - capturing the record, indexing and linking fast and easy enough that
A20508 - the structure of knowledge is useful to people, reported by Jack Park
A20509 - on 001130. ref SDS 16 H17O  On 020531 Mike Poremba noted that SDS is
A20510 - optimized for efficient usability of program functions, ref SDS 20
A20511 - 5M3G; dates make sense of complex information so links are
A20512 - contextually comprehensible, ref SDS 20 OP7M, SDS support for timely
A20513 - analysis to aid human thinking is hard to achieve with other tools.
A20514 - ref SDS 20 5W9J
A20515 -
A20517 -  ..
A20518 - Efficient Usability Converts Diligence into Fun
A20519 -
A20520 - The first effort is to discover functions that make Context Management
A20521 - effective, and then to reduce the level of effort to make the work fun
A20522 - rather than a drudge that requires diligence.  An example reducing
A20523 - effort to make Context Management fast and easy and effective is
A20524 - reported on 030809. ref SDS 24 8M7L
A20526 -  ..
A20527 - Discovering that writing and organizing the record is worthwhile takes
A20528 - education and experience.  Learning to write without assistance is
A20529 - extremely difficult even with excellent pencils, pens, paper.  Even
A20530 - computers are of no value, if you don't know which buttons to press
A20531 - for "cat" or "spoon" or anything; and if you don't where to put a
A20532 - period, a comma, where to capitalize, etc.  Even if you learn which
A20533 - buttons to press, if this is awkward and difficult, instead of fast
A20534 - and easy, then many people get discouraged by inefficient usability
A20535 - that requires a lot of diligence to get things done.  The only
A20536 - solution is to put little people on a bus before they are big enough
A20537 - to resist, and assign experts to teach them for many years.  Good
A20538 - education and good tools with efficient usability that make the work
A20539 - fun helps get more people to work intelligently.
A20541 -  ..
A20542 - Even with all this support, people still have trouble writing down
A20543 - results of meetings, calls, and the meaning of documents.  Since SDS
A20544 - extends literacy for rendering information by adding to intelligence
A20545 - to create knowledge, it should be expected, that like writing, working
A20546 - intelligently is not for everybody.  Vannevar Bush noted in an article
A20547 - published during 1945 that extending the use of literacy to provide
A20548 - paperless office efficiencies of electronic records management
A20549 - requires trails of association and complementary robust indexing,
A20550 - reported on 960304. ref SDS 5 GX59  Bush said this work should be
A20551 - performed by people who are consciencious about recording history.
A20552 - ref SDS 5 X27O
A20554 -  ..
A20555 - This education problem was originally solved through long exposure.
A20556 - It took 300 years for alphabet technology to catch on.  In the
A20557 - beginning many people believd that taking time to learn the abc's just
A20558 - wasn't worth the effort, reviewed in NWO. ref OF 14 YY8H
A20559 -
A20560 -            [On 070904 Gary commends high performance search tools to
A20561 -            complement indexing methods. ref SDS 35 DU4Y
A20563 -  ..
A20564 - Difficulty writing things down and organizing the record causes people
A20565 - to give up and file "everything miscellaneous," cited in Jack's letter
A20566 - yesterday on 070830, ref SDS 34 I19J and simply relying on assumptions
A20567 - remembering the gist of the story, along with what can be found using
A20568 - keyword searches within the time people are willing to invest for
A20569 - making sense of complex circumstances, explained in NWO. ref OF 9 9448
A20570 -
A20572 -  ..
A20573 - SDS Advances Literacy Comparable Level of Effort to Learn Deploy
A20574 -
A20575 - Willingness to invest time overcoming anger and frustrations from the
A20576 - burden of cognitive overhead to learn new skills and use new tools
A20577 - that improve the work for saving lives, time, and money is commonly
A20578 - called "diligence," explained in NWO. ref OF 12 PQ4M  The absence of
A20579 - diligence leads to filing everything under miscellaneous, reviewed on
A20580 - 070729. ref SDS 32 HE6N
A20582 -  ..
A20583 - Speed and mind numbing simplicity make the "fools gold" of relying on
A20584 - "assumption," also discussed in NWO, ref OF 12 FU6J, seem attractive,
A20585 - reviewed on 010908 citing Jack's observation that laziness doing
A20586 - nothing which is always faster and easeir than doing anything, hides
A20587 - the secret of SDS in plain sight for augmenting intelligence.
A20588 - ref SDS 18 YF5O
A20590 -             ..
A20591 -            [On 071113 meeting Morris discuss SDS design for
A20592 -            responsiveness to optimize productivity organizing the
A20593 -            record to find information in time to be effective by
A20594 -            having everything in the right place at the right time,
A20595 -            rather than filing everything under miscellaneous.
A20596 -            ref SDS 36 446N
A20597 -
A20598 -
A20599 -
A206 -

SUBJECTS
SDS Explicit Links Granular Addressability  Pecision Access Knowledg
SDS Explicit Links Granular Addressability Precision Access Knowledg

AO04 -
AO05 - 2211
AO0601 -  ..
AO0602 - Granualr Addressability Save Lives Time Money Not Fast Easy
AO0603 - Accuracy Ignore Fast Easy Takes No Time Explicit Links Not Popular
AO0604 - Knowledge Mangement Precision Access Explicit Links Not Fast Easy
AO0605 - Bad Management Fast Easy Ignore Accuracy Good Management Takes Time
AO0606 -
AO0608 -  ..
AO0609 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Jack responding to Gary's letter earlier
AO0610 - today, per above. ref SDS 0 IV4H
AO0612 -  ..
AO0613 - Jack's letter to Gary says...
AO0614 -
AO0615 -    1.  The same kinds of conclusions you draw on purple numbers, high
AO0616 -        performance addressing, etc, -- e.g., it's not popular, can be
AO0617 -        drawn for POIMs.  It's just not what's for lunch.  Is that any
AO0618 -        reason to ignore either of them? ref DRT 2 0001
AO0619 -
AO0620 -            [On 070904 Gary responds noting importance of purple
AO0621 -            numbers. ref SDS 35 OV3G
AO0623 -  ..
AO0624 - Seems like different conclusions might be considered for purple
AO0625 - numbers which have never (or rarely) been used, per above, ref SDS 0
AO0626 - 1J8H, and explicit links in SDS which have been used constantly for 20
AO0627 - years, shown by this record as one (1) example of 30,000 SDS records.
AO0628 - This small record has about 50 links, which makes about 1.5 million in
AO0629 - 30K records.  Evidence of usefulness understanding cause and effect
AO0630 - aligns with Gary's report on 040227 that SDS generates commitment to
AO0631 - use. ref SDS 26 RH6K  Wayne Wetzel also reported good results using
AO0632 - SDS, shown on 010725. ref SDS 17 0001  USACE reported that SDS was
AO0633 - effective for Communication Metrics, ref DRP 5 6172, and found this
AO0634 - method save time and money. ref DRP 6 0001  PG&E had similar
AO0635 - experience. ref DRP 3 0001
AO0636 -
AO0637 -
AO0638 -
AO0639 -
AO0640 -
AO0641 -
AO0642 -
AO0643 -
AO0644 -
AO0645 -
AO0646 -
AO07 -