As for the first, I found Conklin's papers to be a more
eloquent exposition of the same concept. I'll let others
review the next two.
"John J. Deneen" wrote:
>
> After reviewing several of the ICASIT.org Knowledge Management Case
> Studies, I found the following three links that might be useful for
> "bootstrapping" our interests in:
>
> * email thread management
> * enterprise ontology, and
> * an Ontology Editor that supports distributed, collaborative
> editing, browsing and creation of Ontolingua ontologies.
>
> 1) Corporate Memories for Knowledge Management in Industrial Practice:
> Prospects and Challenges
> http://www.jucs.org/jucs_3_8/corporate_memories_for_knowledge/paper.html#[wolfandreimer1996]
>
> 2) Overview of the Enterprise Ontology
> http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/enterprise/
>
> 3) The Ontology Editor is a tool that supports distributed,
> collaborative editing, browsing and creation of Ontolingua ontologies.
>
> http://www-ksl-svc.stanford.edu:5915/FRAME-EDITOR/&sid=ANONYMOUS&user-id=ALIEN
>
> Jack Park wrote:
>
> > From: Henry van Eyken <vaneyken@sympatico.ca>
> > > On threadmaster.
> > >
> > > The thread, I feared - well, still do - may collapse under its own
> > weight.
> > That
> > > would be a pity. Some contributors appear to feel the same and
> > have made
> > some
> > > effort at condensing some of the ideas presented. And thgis led me
> > to the
> > notion
> > > of persons interested in "taking charge" of a particular thread or
> > related
> > > threads to function as a threadmaster. The threadmaster would
> > organize,
> > strip,
> > > encourage, seek solutions to conundrums, seek external sources o
> > expertise,
> > > edit, etc. and eventually contribute a story to the Bootstrap
> > site. That
> > story
> > > would be consensual in the sense that authors in the thread are
> > not
> > slighted,
> > > that they agree to how they have been represented, etc. One might
> > say that
> > the
> > > threadmaster, in the words of a famous contributor to this forum,
> > turns
> > > information into knowledge or, phrasing it along not too
> > dissimilar a
> > line,
> > > makes information into a story for a better sticking to people's
> > mental
> > ribs.
> > >
> > > Threadmasters would function one thread at a time and after
> > completing a
> > thread
> > > (perhaps serve to bring out a modified version once in awhile)
> > take a
> > deserved
> > > rest to later get fired up again and put his/her experience to
> > bear on
> > another
> > > thread.
> > >
> > > Isn't this the sort of thing that may make good discussion forums
> > better,
> > more
> > > widely useful discussion forums?
> > >
> > > Henry
> >
> > For me, if for no-one else here, perhaps the most illuminating
> > suggestion on
> > this list has been Eric Armstrong's notion that IBIS can/should
> > manage
> > threads. I once poked out the idea that a Beadmaster was needed
> > (Herman
> > Hesse: _The Glass Bead Game_). I have recently suggested that what
> > is also
> > needed is a kind of central repository of words and their meanings
> > (an
> > ontology) such that all threads can remain 'on the same page', or,
> > at least,
> > drift from the page with complete visibility of the drift and its
> > intentions. Threadmasters, it seems to me, is an idea that wants to
> > find a
> > common ground in all these suggestions.
> >
> > In another illuminating post here, Garold Johnson points out, very
> > clearly,
> > IMHO, some problems associated with a priori structure in a
> > discussion
> > space, and suggests continual refactoring as a means of at least
> > controlling
> > such issues.
> >
> > Get this: nbci.com is announcing (at least on TV) that they have
> > something
> > called QuikClick or words to that effect. The idea is this: click
> > on any
> > word and you get a popup with links to more information on that
> > particular
> > word (or phrase, whatever you have highlited).
> >
> > It seems to me that we are beginning to see evidence of a larger
> > interest in
> > an underlying ontology (even if it's not called that), thread
> > management,
> > and tools that implement such things.
> >
> > I am responding to this by working 'bottom up' in a long list of
> > holliday
> > email. It is conceivable that others have already responded to this
> > thread.
> > This morning promises to be an interesting one!
> >
> > Happy new year to all.
> > Jack
> >
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