Simon Buckingham Shum's Posts - Global Sensemaking2024-03-28T22:23:13ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbshttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3345837404?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://globalsensemaking.net/profiles/blog/feed?user=3qa42pxydfmi6&xn_auth=noOpen review invited: Scientific Discourse on the Semantic Web: A Survey of Models and Enabling Technologiestag:globalsensemaking.net,2010-11-18:2052744:BlogPost:154712010-11-18T15:00:00.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
You may like to see that a survey article on modelling scientific discourse has just been posted on the Semantic Web Journal website:<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/new-submission-scientific-discourse-semantic-web-survey-models-and-enabling-technologies">http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/new-submission-scientific-discourse-semantic-web-survey-models-and-enabling-technologies</a><br></br><br></br>Following their progressive open peer review model, the community…
You may like to see that a survey article on modelling scientific discourse has just been posted on the Semantic Web Journal website:<br/><br/><a href="http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/new-submission-scientific-discourse-semantic-web-survey-models-and-enabling-technologies">http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/new-submission-scientific-discourse-semantic-web-survey-models-and-enabling-technologies</a><br/><br/>Following their progressive open peer review model, the community is invited to submit comments, anonymously or named, as they wish. <br/><br/>Please circulate to any colleagues who might be interested.<br/><br/>Regards,<br/><br/>Simon<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">Scientific Discourse on the Semantic Web: A Survey of Models and Enabling Technologies</span><div class="detail clearfix"><div class="field field-type-text field-field-papertitle"><div class="field-items"></div>
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Simon Buckingham Shum, Tim Clark, Anita de Waard, Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Agnes Sandor</div>
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<div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><br/>The desired outcome of all scientific endeavour is to advance the the body of accumulated knowledge
in a materially verifiable way. This knowledge is communicated through the research literature, which<br />
presents scientific claims and their justifications through forms of discourse, expressed in document<br />
genres legitimated by a given research community. The study of the rhetorical and argumentative<br />
characteristics of such discourse has long-standing traditions, the results of which also provide insights<br />
into how scientific publishing, search and debate might take new forms on the social-semantic web.<br />
This article surveys, for a general readership, the growing body of work that models scientific<br />
discourse for social-semantic web applications, and offers a framework highlighting key features to<br />
help compare the various models. Secondly, we present examples of tools based on discourse models,<br />
which facilitate semantic navigation, structured debate, human and machine annotation of scientific<br />
texts, and literature analysis/alerting services. Finally, we identify some of the open research<br />
challenges confronting the field, and summarise the ways in which they are being tackled.</div>
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<br/>ODET 2010: Online Deliberation Emerging Tools workshoptag:globalsensemaking.net,2010-07-08:2052744:BlogPost:150342010-07-08T09:10:07.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
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<br></br><br></br>I ran a workshop last week in Leeds prior to the Online Deliberation conference. <br></br><br></br>Screencasts and slides showing the current state of some of the leading computer-supported deliberation/argumentation tools, plus dialogue maps from the discussions and major challenges that we identified:…
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<br/><br/>I ran a workshop last week in Leeds prior to the Online Deliberation conference. <br/><br/>Screencasts and slides showing the current state of some of the leading computer-supported deliberation/argumentation tools, plus dialogue maps from the discussions and major challenges that we identified: <a href="http://olnet.org/odet2010">http://olnet.org/odet2010</a>Compendium concept demo: emergency responsetag:globalsensemaking.net,2010-02-09:2052744:BlogPost:145412010-02-09T20:59:56.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
The EPSRC-funded <a href="http://www.aktors.org/">Advanced Knowledge Technologies</a> Consortium ran 2000-06. The final demonstrator of all the technologies coming together centred on an emergency response scenario. Compendium served as the sensemaking hub around an aircraft crash on London, envisioning how a response coordination team might use Compendium overlaid on a GIS, to keep track of events and actions, in concert with a diverse set of AKT semantic web services.<br></br><br></br>I’ve just got…
The EPSRC-funded <a href="http://www.aktors.org/">Advanced Knowledge Technologies</a> Consortium ran 2000-06. The final demonstrator of all the technologies coming together centred on an emergency response scenario. Compendium served as the sensemaking hub around an aircraft crash on London, envisioning how a response coordination team might use Compendium overlaid on a GIS, to keep track of events and actions, in concert with a diverse set of AKT semantic web services.<br/><br/>I’ve just got round to converting the concept movie to a <a href="http://podcast.open.ac.uk/pod/e-response" target="akt">podcast</a> [<a href="http://bit.ly/aOt85C">hi-res version</a>], so here it is, along with an explanatory article…<strong><br/><br/>The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response</strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br/></span><p><a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/19858">http://oro.open.ac.uk/19858</a></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;">Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of information. In this article we present an integrated system that applies recent ideas and technologies from the fields of Artificial Intelligence and semantic web research to support sense- and decision-making at the tactical response level, and demonstrate it with reference to a hypothetical large-scale emergency scenario. We offer no end-user evaluation of this system; rather, we intend that it should serve as a visionary demonstration of the potential of these technologies for emergency response.</p>Contested Collective Intelligencetag:globalsensemaking.net,2010-01-26:2052744:BlogPost:145272010-01-26T15:48:29.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
Anna De Liddo and I will be presenting this concept to the CI workshop at CSCW 2010 next month...<br />
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De Liddo , A. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2010). <b>Cohere: A Prototype for Contested Collective Intelligence</b>. Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Organizations: Toward a Research Agenda, ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010), February 6-10, 2010, Savannah, Georgia, USA. Available as ePrint:…
Anna De Liddo and I will be presenting this concept to the CI workshop at CSCW 2010 next month...<br />
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De Liddo , A. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2010). <b>Cohere: A Prototype for Contested Collective Intelligence</b>. Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Organizations: Toward a Research Agenda, ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010), February 6-10, 2010, Savannah, Georgia, USA. Available as ePrint: <a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/19554" target="_blank">http://oro.open.ac.uk/19554</a><br />
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Abstract: This paper presents the rationale for treating Contested Collective Intelligence (CCI) as a significant and distinctive dimension of the broader Collective Intelligence design space for organizations. CCI is contrasted with other forms of CI, and building on research in sensemaking, and the modeling of dialogue and debate, we motivate a set of requirements for an ideal CCI platform. We then describe a social, semantic annotation tool called Cohere, which serves as our working prototype of the CCI concept, now being deployed in several communitiesMozilla extension adds web annotation to Coheretag:globalsensemaking.net,2010-01-17:2052744:BlogPost:145172010-01-17T17:42:50.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
Some of you may be interested to play with the new release of our Mozilla extension for <a href="http://cohere.open.ac.uk" target="_blank">Cohere</a>, which adds highlighting and annotation to Firefox/Flock, but with the addition of more reflective, sensemaking elements:<br />
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* <b>Clips</b> are highlighted text fragments (and in future video hopefully) to provide more precise link anchors and to direct visual attention<br />
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* margin notes are in fact what we call <b>Ideas</b>, first class objects in…
Some of you may be interested to play with the new release of our Mozilla extension for <a href="http://cohere.open.ac.uk" target="_blank">Cohere</a>, which adds highlighting and annotation to Firefox/Flock, but with the addition of more reflective, sensemaking elements:<br />
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* <b>Clips</b> are highlighted text fragments (and in future video hopefully) to provide more precise link anchors and to direct visual attention<br />
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* margin notes are in fact what we call <b>Ideas</b>, first class objects in the system, since Ideas are first class objects in sensemaking, connected to an arbitrary no. of Clips on any no. of websites<br />
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[thus far it's just Diigo, Sidewiki, etc]<br />
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* optional user-defined <b>classification of Ideas</b> to show the role that they play (Question; Assumption; Prediction; etc)<br />
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* optional user defined <b>semantic Connections between Ideas</b><br />
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* generation of semantic Idea webs that can be filtered by user-defined link types<br />
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We're currently analysing data and experiences from a <a href="http://globalsensemaking.wik.is/ESSENCE/Teams/COP15_ESSENCE_Team" target="_blank">collective intelligence experiment</a> we ran in December, when four analysts used Cohere to make sense of media coverage of COP15 and climate change Open Educational Resources.<br />
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SimonTuning back in...tag:globalsensemaking.net,2010-01-17:2052744:BlogPost:145162010-01-17T17:29:37.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
Folks I've been off on a rather different though connected planet for the last 12 months, seconded out of my usual role to direct an 'under the radar' project called <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/sociallearn" target="_blank">SocialLearn</a> here at Open U. GlobalSensemaking and ESSENCE got rather put on ice for me, so apols for not being around much or being unresponsive. We're now coming out from our 'cloaked' status and starting to blog about what we've been up to, which was, and…
Folks I've been off on a rather different though connected planet for the last 12 months, seconded out of my usual role to direct an 'under the radar' project called <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/sociallearn" target="_blank">SocialLearn</a> here at Open U. GlobalSensemaking and ESSENCE got rather put on ice for me, so apols for not being around much or being unresponsive. We're now coming out from our 'cloaked' status and starting to blog about what we've been up to, which was, and continues to be, around web infrastructure for social learning.<br />
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But tuning back in now and delighted to see this place still v much alive :-)<br />
My other activities, increasingly around the <a href="http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs/tag/future-schools/" target="_blank">future shape of schools</a> (we better start fixing it right from the early days...), have been blogged on my regular site.<br />
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SimonESSENCE: E-Science/Sensemaking/Climate Changetag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-11-10:2052744:BlogPost:67452008-11-10T18:00:00.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
Hi everyone,<br />
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We've been busy building the website for ESSENCE: E-Science/Sensemaking/Climate Change:<br />
<a href="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/essence">http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/essence</a><br />
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We're fast approaching the stage where we will approach external groups of stakeholders to invite them to try out our sensemaking tools. The website is not yet being publicly announced with any fanfare until we have populated it with more examples and partners.<br />
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So, we would like to invite you to browse the…
Hi everyone,<br />
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We've been busy building the website for ESSENCE: E-Science/Sensemaking/Climate Change:<br />
<a href="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/essence">http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/essence</a><br />
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We're fast approaching the stage where we will approach external groups of stakeholders to invite them to try out our sensemaking tools. The website is not yet being publicly announced with any fanfare until we have populated it with more examples and partners.<br />
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So, we would like to invite you to browse the site, and:<br />
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1. feed back to use anything you think doesn't work in terms of communication<br />
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2. start to populate the wiki with topics for Challenges you want to explore, your Participant profile, or add your own Tool if you can commit to supporting it to some degree with any of the Taskforces who want to use it.<br />
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3. send me the names and websites of organisations whom we should approach to participate, or support it. We would like to have a strong list of sponsors/partners on the front page.<br />
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thanks<br />
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Simon<br />
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Dr Simon J. Buckingham Shum<br />
Senior Lecturer in Knowledge Media<br />
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University<br />
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK<br />
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs<br />
T: +44 (0)1908 655723 F: +44 (0)1908 653169Cohere beta2 screencaststag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-07-31:2052744:BlogPost:58212008-07-31T14:00:00.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
We're building a new collection of screencasts introducing the new release. All of them, including large format hi-res versions (recommended for viewing pleasure!) are linked from the <a href="http://cohere.open.ac.uk/#screencast">Cohere screencasts</a> page, which also point to low-res versions on our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/KMiCohere">YouTube channel</a>.
We're building a new collection of screencasts introducing the new release. All of them, including large format hi-res versions (recommended for viewing pleasure!) are linked from the <a href="http://cohere.open.ac.uk/#screencast">Cohere screencasts</a> page, which also point to low-res versions on our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/KMiCohere">YouTube channel</a>.Cohere Dev GoogleGrp launchedtag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-07-31:2052744:BlogPost:58012008-07-31T08:30:00.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
We've just set up a group for Cohere dev talk: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/coheredev">http://groups.google.com/group/coheredev</a>
We've just set up a group for Cohere dev talk: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/coheredev">http://groups.google.com/group/coheredev</a>Evidence-Based Dialogue Mapping (of climate change) for Teenagerstag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-07-18:2052744:BlogPost:54412008-07-18T12:00:00.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
Just posted a <a href="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/sbs/2008/07/evidence-based-dialogue-mapping-for-teenagers/">new article</a> reporting work we did last summer... "following great work last year by Ale Okada teaching teenagers on a science summer school to map their reasoning about climate change impact (using our Compendium tool), the article below summarises where we’ve got…"<br />
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Okada, A. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2008, In Press). Evidence-Based Dialogue Maps as a Research Tool to Investigate…
Just posted a <a href="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/sbs/2008/07/evidence-based-dialogue-mapping-for-teenagers/">new article</a> reporting work we did last summer... "following great work last year by Ale Okada teaching teenagers on a science summer school to map their reasoning about climate change impact (using our Compendium tool), the article below summarises where we’ve got…"<br />
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Okada, A. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2008, In Press). Evidence-Based Dialogue Maps as a Research Tool to Investigate the Quality of School Pupils’ Scientific Argumentation, International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 31, (3), pp. xx-xx (Special Issue: Coffin, C. and O’Halloran, K.A, (Eds.) Researching Argumentation in Educational Contexts: New Methods, New Directions). PrePrint: <a href="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/hyperdiscourse/docs/ijrme2008.pdf">http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/hyperdiscourse/docs/ijrme2008.pdf</a><br />
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<a href="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/hyperdiscourse/docs/IJRME2008-Fig16.jpg"><img width="500" src="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/hyperdiscourse/docs/IJRME2008-Fig16.jpg"/></a>Cohere semantic annotation Firefox Plugintag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-07-16:2052744:BlogPost:53812008-07-16T13:43:55.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
Just <a href="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/sbs/2008/07/cohere-semantic-annotation-firefox-plugin">posted</a> this...<br />
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"The social web is about sharing ideas. Cohere makes Ideas a first class object: something you can point to as a URL, embed in another page, link to semantically (you make up the semantics: is an example of… is analogous to… refutes… predicts…), classify (theory/method/data/politician/supernatural phenomenon…), visualize its connections, share, agree with, build on,…
Just <a href="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/sbs/2008/07/cohere-semantic-annotation-firefox-plugin">posted</a> this...<br />
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"The social web is about sharing ideas. Cohere makes Ideas a first class object: something you can point to as a URL, embed in another page, link to semantically (you make up the semantics: is an example of… is analogous to… refutes… predicts…), classify (theory/method/data/politician/supernatural phenomenon…), visualize its connections, share, agree with, build on, challenge…<br />
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The Cohere Firefox plugin now makes it possible to annotate, or grab snippets from, a web page and turn them into an Idea in Cohere, or meaningfully connect Ideas..."Sensemaking 'vs' Learningtag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-07-10:2052744:BlogPost:52412008-07-10T20:00:00.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
As part of thinking through our SocialLearn platform for socially-based, informal and formal learning, I am pondering the overlaps and differences between sensemaking and learning, in theory and practice. In my view, SL as a platform designed to connect learners with each other via common learning goals, <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/socialearn/2008/07/10/web2-native-ple/">interoperable with many Web 2.0 tools</a>, could be a potential GSm platform for analysts and subject matter experts…
As part of thinking through our SocialLearn platform for socially-based, informal and formal learning, I am pondering the overlaps and differences between sensemaking and learning, in theory and practice. In my view, SL as a platform designed to connect learners with each other via common learning goals, <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/socialearn/2008/07/10/web2-native-ple/">interoperable with many Web 2.0 tools</a>, could be a potential GSm platform for analysts and subject matter experts working on a wicked problem.<br />
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I'd like to do some kind of mapping between e-learning pedagogy models, and sensemaking models. Meantime, if anyone has good resources to point to that bridge these two worlds, then let me know.DIAC demo papertag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-06-03:2052744:BlogPost:35832008-06-03T16:30:00.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
Here's the demo that Anna is going to give at DIAC this month:<br />
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De Liddo, A. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2008). <b>Knowledge Media Tools for Capturing Deliberation in Participatory Spatial Planning</b>. Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing: Conference on Online Deliberation. June 26-29, 2008, Berkeley,<br />
CA. <a href="http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08">http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08</a>.<br />
[Preprint:…
Here's the demo that Anna is going to give at DIAC this month:<br />
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De Liddo, A. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2008). <b>Knowledge Media Tools for Capturing Deliberation in Participatory Spatial Planning</b>. Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing: Conference on Online Deliberation. June 26-29, 2008, Berkeley,<br />
CA. <a href="http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08">http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08</a>.<br />
[Preprint: <a href="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/hyperdiscourse/docs/DIAC-08-DeLiddoSBS.pdf">http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/hyperdiscourse/docs/DIAC-08-DeLiddoSBS.pdf</a>]Open Archives Initiative: Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE)tag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-06-03:2052744:BlogPost:35452008-06-03T09:30:00.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
Possibly an important new standard for referring to a meaningful collection of material called a Resource Map... I note the interest in helping Web 2.0 apps to reference these, though not had time to figure out what they mean by this...<br />
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From the <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/0.9/primer">primer</a>: "The ORE Model makes it possible to associate identities with aggregations of web resources and to describe their structure and semantics. It does this by introducing the Resource Map…
Possibly an important new standard for referring to a meaningful collection of material called a Resource Map... I note the interest in helping Web 2.0 apps to reference these, though not had time to figure out what they mean by this...<br />
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From the <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/0.9/primer">primer</a>: "The ORE Model makes it possible to associate identities with aggregations of web resources and to describe their structure and semantics. It does this by introducing the Resource Map (ReM), which is a network accessible resource that encapsulates a set of RDF statements. These statements describe an Aggregation as a resource with a URI, enumerate the constituents of the Aggregation, and the relationships among those constituents."<br />
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Press Release:<br />
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"Over the past eighteen months the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), in a project called Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE), has gathered international experts from the publishing, web, library, and eScience community to develop standards for the identification and description of aggregations of online information resources. These aggregations, sometimes called compound digital objects, may combine distributed resources with multiple media types including text, images, data, and video. The goal of these standards is to expose the rich content in these aggregations to applications that support authoring, deposit, exchange, visualization, reuse, and preservation. Although a motivating use case for the work is the changing nature of scholarship and scholarly communication, and the need for cyberinfrastructure to support that scholarship, the intent of the effort is to develop standards that generalize across all web-based information including the increasing popular social networks of web 2.0<br />
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The beta version of the OAI-ORE specifications and implementation documents are released to the public on June 2, 2008. These documents describe a data model to introduce aggregations as resources with URIs on the web. They also detail the machine-readable descriptions of aggregations expressed in the popular Atom syndication format, RDF/XML, and RDFa.<br />
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The table of contents page with links to other documents is located at<br />
<a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/toc">http://www.openarchives.org/ore/toc</a><br />
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The full press release for this beta release is located at<br />
<a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/oreBetaPressRelease.pdf">http://www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/oreBetaPressRelease.pdf</a><br />
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Carl Lagoze - Cornell University<br />
Herbert Van de Sompel - Los Alamos National Laboratory"What does a Sensemaking API look like?tag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-06-03:2052744:BlogPost:35412008-06-03T08:00:00.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
In the SocialLearn project here at the OU [<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/socialearn">fledgling site</a>], we are developing an API for "Social Learning"... think Google's OpenSocial, but tailored for learning in social networks.<br />
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This is all under wraps at present, but we might ask what does it mean to create a sensemaking API? Is this really the same as a learning API, which might allow you to share learning objectives via Twitter, Facebook and SN-tool XYZ?<br />
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Or is this more specifically…
In the SocialLearn project here at the OU [<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/socialearn">fledgling site</a>], we are developing an API for "Social Learning"... think Google's OpenSocial, but tailored for learning in social networks.<br />
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This is all under wraps at present, but we might ask what does it mean to create a sensemaking API? Is this really the same as a learning API, which might allow you to share learning objectives via Twitter, Facebook and SN-tool XYZ?<br />
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Or is this more specifically an IBIS API, or an API grounded in some other set of discourse/interpretive moves that are deemed central to sensemaking?<br />
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Do we need ONE SM-API, or is that a fruitless quest for the Holy Grail a la seeking THE master ontology. Instead, is it much more appropriate to think of a thousand APIs with people joining up a thousand sensemaking tools in whatever way seems useful? In which case, can coherence still emerge? Hmmm...Bringing order to online discussions about climate changetag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-05-29:2052744:BlogPost:33012008-05-29T14:24:33.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
A nice introduction to the MIT+Naples activity in Nature...<br />
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<a href="http://network.nature.com/boston/news/articles/2008/04/10/bringing-order-to-online-discussions-about-climate-change">Bringing order to online discussions about climate change</a>
A nice introduction to the MIT+Naples activity in Nature...<br />
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<a href="http://network.nature.com/boston/news/articles/2008/04/10/bringing-order-to-online-discussions-about-climate-change">Bringing order to online discussions about climate change</a>Tuning back in...tag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-05-27:2052744:BlogPost:31212008-05-27T22:11:54.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
Having been in hospital for a week in Seattle, and then finding myself "deactivated" by Ning, I'm finally back, and trying to catch up! :-)
Having been in hospital for a week in Seattle, and then finding myself "deactivated" by Ning, I'm finally back, and trying to catch up! :-)Compendium as a sensemaking hub for emergency responsetag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-05-10:2052744:BlogPost:20042008-05-10T08:00:00.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
This movie shows how Compendium was embedded in a semantic web infrastructure for emergency response (to an aircrash rather than a climatic disaster, but use your imagination!), with a variety of tools feeding event data (like a climate computer model might) into Compendium, which served as the sensemaking 'glue'.<br />
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<a href="http://www.e-response.org/demo/movie">http://www.e-response.org/demo/movie</a><br />
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from:<br />
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<b>The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response…</b>
This movie shows how Compendium was embedded in a semantic web infrastructure for emergency response (to an aircrash rather than a climatic disaster, but use your imagination!), with a variety of tools feeding event data (like a climate computer model might) into Compendium, which served as the sensemaking 'glue'.<br />
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<a href="http://www.e-response.org/demo/movie">http://www.e-response.org/demo/movie</a><br />
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<b>The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response</b><br />
<a href="http://eprints.aktors.org/602">http://eprints.aktors.org/602</a><br />
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"Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of information. In this paper we present an integrated system that applies recent ideas and technologies from the fields of Artificial Intelligence and semantic web research to support sense- and decision-making at the tactical response level, and demonstrate it with reference to a hypothetical large-scale emergency scenario. We offer no end-user evaluation of this system; rather, we intend that it should serve as a visionary demonstration of the potential of these technologies for emergency response."<br />
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Potter, S, Kalfoglou, Y, Alani, H, Bachler, M, Buckingham Shum, S, Carvalho, R, Chakravarthy, A, Chalmers, S, Chapman, S, Hu, B, Preece, A, Shadbolt, N, Tate, A, and Tuffield, M. (2007) The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response. In Proceedings 4th International Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 07) Conference, Delft, The Netherlands.DebateWise: another for/against wikipedia-style sitetag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-05-08:2052744:BlogPost:18892008-05-08T20:33:40.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
<a href="http://www.debatewise.com">DebateWise</a> looks uncannily like <a href="http://wiki.idebate.org">Debatepedia</a>, simply pooling arguments for and against a particular motion. But good to see another effort to promote debate, and a handy source of material that we can hopefully add better structure to with our tools.
<a href="http://www.debatewise.com">DebateWise</a> looks uncannily like <a href="http://wiki.idebate.org">Debatepedia</a>, simply pooling arguments for and against a particular motion. But good to see another effort to promote debate, and a handy source of material that we can hopefully add better structure to with our tools.