I am a visitor here because of a cross-posting that Eric Armstrong made with
another discussion list.
Having made this random entry, and musing about systems inscrutability and
incoherence, I can report that I had a heck of a time figuring out the
following terms, which are used heavily in this setting:
OHMS - Open Hyperdocument System
was the easiest
NIC - Network Improvement Communities
was the next easiest
DKR - Dynamic Knowledge Repository
was very tough until I searched the eGroup
SDS - I gave up on, it is used so heavily that I despair of finding a hit
that is actually definitive.
So, here's a test problem for www.bootstrap.org and the unrev-II group:
What is the definition of "SDS" as used here?
If I came in at http://www.bootstrap.org, how would I have found it?
If I came in at the eGroup, how would I have found it?
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What's the point?
1. I am struck by the degree to which tacit knowledge infects most
contexts. It is easiest to notice that when the context is unfamiliar. I
am sure that visitors to sites I compile material on would be able to give
me a disappointingly-long list of undefined terms and undocumented
assumptions that baffle them.
2. If an OHS/DKR is intended to support explanation (my test of any
knowledge-based system), it would seem that induction of conceptual
frameworks, contexts, and maybe even paradigms becomes important. With very
little exposure to this discussion, I do notice that a lot of the
implementation conversation is about pretty low-level plumbing (e.g., XML as
carrier, granularity of links, and frames versus hierarchies). I love to
fuss about infrastructure too.
3. Maybe what is needed is some kind of challenge problem that could be
done on an existing corpus (such as the unrev-II collection) and demonstrate
achievement of some measure of DKR acceptability.
-- Dennis
AIIM DMware Technical Coordinator
AIIM DMware http://www.infonuovo.com/dmware
ODMA Support http://www.infonuovo.com/odma
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