I am sure this will be mentioned in class tomorrow, but I was looking at the SCOUT Portal Toolkit and it amazes me how clearly it is a group blog. Unless I am just totally missing the boat on this one .... I have a feeling as blogging becomes ever more popular there will become more and more *best*tool*ever* blogging software packages appearing on the market.
"askOnce is a personal 'single click' access point for finding exactly the information that you need. askOnce is a web-based meta-search application that allows you to search multiple repositories and data-types with a single query. Once learners have identified texts or multimedia documents that seem interesting to them, they can post them onto KP recommendation services."
The integration of two technologies could accelerate collaborative filtering.
The collaborative filetering made " the butterfly effect", which means tiny difference in the initial conditions becomes amplified by the evolution.
"One flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever."
In the article, The Science of the Sleeper, How the Information Age could blow away the blockbuster, Mary Gay Shipley's recommendation functioned like that by making a unknown novel a best-seller.
The article reminds the significance of customized filtering in the information age when readers are starved for finding their doppelganger.
This is an interesting, simple site that supposedly changes every month. This month the e-zine is discussing the Open Directory Project. http://www.laisha.com/zine/odphistory.html
From the Newsweek article:
More press on weblogs as knowledge management tools for covering international press regarding the war, particularly the "collectives" mention.
An even more comprehensive view can be obtained by going to “warblog collectives” that gather the information and links from multiple sites. If you go to a site like The Command Post, you can find updates every five or six minutes, each one a different story. Within a few minutes on Friday, there were reports from AP, Reuters, Iraqi News, the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, The Washington Post and the Samizdata and Outside the Beltway blogs.
...The collectives “show the self-organizing, distributed nature of the Blogosphere,” says popular blogger Glenn Reynolds, whose own Instapundit uber-linking site has been pulling in 200,000 page views a day during the war.
This in the newest issue of Nature: E-mail reveals real leaders
"Better information means Better care"
Success story in Japan about Lotus technology,
www-3.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/NAVO-4NMRRL?OpenDocument&Site=lotus
I caught a notice about the "Blog Bar " over at Library Stuff today. The Blog Bar is "a neat little tool to add to your IE Taskbar. Click on the Blogger icon and a side bar comes up where you can blog, post, and publish your entries. Only works with Blogger." Steven also mentioned a new tool called FM Radiostation, which provides a different interface for Radio (it looks like it might be a bit easier to use). I downloaded it today and will try it out this weekend.
This is the new software that Apple has launched and other computer related industries are beginning to incorporate so that computers, printers, etc are all networked even at distances through the use of shared systems. http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/rendezvous.html
I think this technology could lead to an unprecedented use of online community activities. However, the suspicious part of me fears it could also be used as a unique Big Brother device. What weight will convenience play out on the possibility of overseers?
Web Logs: Troops' War Stories in Real Time. You will need a subscriber login to view the entire article online but I've enclosed some quotes I found interesting below. [Headings are in my words, Italics are quotes]Overall, I think the best benefit is to the troops in the field who get some way of documenting their lives (acknowledging the reality of their situation in some way) and to their families who take comfort in seeing web logs posted on a regular basis.
Noise in the information channel:
a Navy lieutenant based in the Gulf posted some news on his personal Web site: "Saddam fired a couple of those Scuds that he doesn't have at me."...In all, the glut of information from the Gulf -- from the important to the trivial -- is creating a dizzying panoply of detail, as well as half-truths. For example, the Iraqis have fired missiles at U.S. forces but not Scuds.
News from the "non-media":
One needn't run a Web site from the front to publish war news. Julia Hayden, an office manager in San Antonio, posts e-mails from her daughter in the Marines, on a Web site named Sgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing. Her Camp Guam-based daughter, whom Ms. Hayden nicknamed Cpl. Blondie, was one of the first to report in mid-March that some Iraqi troops had tried to surrender near the Kuwait-Iraq border.
An example of the need for corporate policy?
Curiously, unlike the military, traditional media outlets have been trying to quash their personnel's blogging efforts. Kevin Sites, a CNN correspondent in northern Iraq, had been posting photographs, short accounts and audio reports on his Web log until CNN pressured him to stop.
and speaking of policy: Is it ok to copy/paste quotes from the article and publish them to a KMS blog???
John Udell's (co-author of the Peer-to-Peer chapter on Groove's security) 2002 article on web-based groupware, Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration, with an emphasis on free systems. This report itself is an experiment group review and discussion. He mentions a few systems we haven't really looked at in terms of groupware.
Regarding Outlook as a tool for personal information management: It does allow users to add "New Folders" in the drafts folder (makes sense). I went as far as two levels deep. Basically, after using my drafts folder as a note taking tool for 7 months I had 49 drafts in my folder. They covered everything from links for research papers to recipes for stuffed mushrooms. Now I have 3 folders and perhaps I'll be more organized as a result!
Fossil has developed a watch with a Palm OS, coming out this summer.
I know I'd lose the stylus, and four days of battery life seems like it could be a real hassle, but I bet it catches on....
The "next generation" watch seems to be a new focus. This one actually receives instant messages.
Steven over at Library Stuff noticed my blog and commented on it today: "Another weblog by a library school student, this one by Danielle Cunniff Plumer who attends The University of Texas at Austin. She also links to a weblog for a class she is taking on Knowledge Management Systems." Pretty cool!
David Galbraith and Ian Davis have a good start on the idea we talked about int class:
BIO: A vocabulary for biographical information
This is a practical extension of ideas from XML/RDF that could be used to all manner of content identification and expert finding (see Ackerman's work). Integrated with blog postings would form a powerful way for understanding the context of a blog posting.
O'Reilly has a big list of collaboration packages at Openp2p.com.
They also host a weblog by Peer-to-Peer editor Andy Oram.
As a follow up to my comment in class yesterday (and this post), an interview with Derek Powazek, of Design for Community fame. The interview is part of the website for theUser Interface 7 West Conference, which is taking place in a few days.
JXTA technology is “a set of open, generalized peer-to-peer protocols that allows any connected device (cell phone to PDA, PC to server) on the network to communicate and collaborate”. JXTA technology enables Internet use to be more natural and intuitive by supporting applications that are collaborative and communication-oriented.
JXTA can be used to create applications and services that enable users to:
§ Search the entire Web and all of its connected devices-not just servers--for needed information
§ Save files and information to distributed locations on the network, not just to local hard drives
§ Connect game systems so that multiple people in multiple locations can play the same game interactively
§ Participate in auctions among selected groups of individuals
§ Collaborate on projects from anywhere using any connected device
§ Share compute services, such as processor cycles or storage systems, regardless of where the systems or the users are physically located
Project JXTA: An Open, Innovative Collaboration: This paper examines the evolution of Internet use, the expanded access that the technology promises, and advanced network computing through JXTA technology using open source model. It also introduces core mechanisms for P2P applications and services: peer groups; peer pipes; and peer monitoring.
The release of Lotus Notes in 1989 revolutionized the way people worked together with computer. Lotus Notes helps users to improve human productivity by fundamentally changing how people work together.
“Release 6.0.1 enhances the quality and reliability of the Notes and Domino 6 products, as well as a limited set of new features, which include Single Copy Template, the ability for iNotes Web Access users to read Notes-encrypted mail messages, and Roaming User Support. ”
The URL is: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/swnews/swnews.nsf/n/jmae5jntvb?OpenDocument&Site=lotus
Among the new features, “Roaming User Support” is very interesting and related to Personal Information Management that we learned in class.
LISNews.com reports that the online OED has added New Oxford English Dictionary Words including "blog, v.; blogger, n.; blogging, n.; weblog, n.; weblogger, n.; weblogging, n." Their definition of blogging is:
The activity of writing or maintaining a weblog.
"A cultish techie activity"? Hmmm.
For those who would like more info about how XML works in/with databases-- XML and Databases //Quote//This paper gives a high-level overview of how to use XML with databases. It describes how the differences between data-centric and document-centric documents affect their usage with databases, how XML is commonly used with relational databases, and what native XML databases are and when to use them.//Endquote//
Uncovering Information Hidden in Web Archives. A view of KDD and IR from an archival perspective. A good primer on how data warehousing works from D-Lib Magazine.
Blogger has a new feature that allows you to post an audio blog to your blogspot by telephone call. I tried the "free sample" using my home phone, but you could post from a cell phone also if you really want to stay mobile and blog! The cost is $3.00 for 12 2-minute audio posts per month. I'm going to try and find out how popular it is. Check out my "test" post on my blog.
Infoworld has an article that discusses how KM will benefit from new technologies.
It mentions a new term for project manager who use blogging to capture the processes they use.
"What k-loggers do, fundamentally, is narrate the work they do. In an ideal world, everyone does this all the time. The narrative is as useful to the author, who gains clarity through the effort of articulation, as it is to the reader."
In a way, this extends on one of our readings for the March 18 class, "The Future of Knowledge Management," although this article emphasizes the importance of the human element as much as the technology.
"With no mind-melding on the horizon, future knowledge extractors will focus on rewards for knowledge, hiring good knowledge creators and providing easy-to-use tools for capture. "
I was just browsing the systems for this week and took a quick tour/walkthrough of Meeting Maker. From what I gather, the benefits are its cross-platform capabilities. "Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, Java, Palm, PocketPC and RIM Blackberry." After clicking through the walk-through it appears the end-user feature set is what MS Outlook has had for the last few years. I didn't do the free trial download though so there might be some hidden gems.
I don't suppose anyone out there has had success creating their personal blogsite using Radio Userland. Although I've downloaded and installed RU, when I launch it, it can't find my browser, even though they're in the same folder. I can't figure out how to "lead the horse to water." Any suggestions?
Katherine, are you having any better success with Blogger?
Among Primary readings of Week 11, the following readings have been damaged, so I couldn't link to them now.
But, we can find it on the "Online Journal" in UTNetCat.
These are the URLs:
1)Using Collaborative Filtering to Weave an Information Tapestry
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/965/352/33929805w1/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A13039895&dyn=7!xrn_1_0_A13039895?sw_aep=txshracd2598
2)Fab: content-based, collaborative recommendation
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/965/352/33929805w1/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A19284346&dyn=14!xrn_1_0_A19284346&bkm_14_1?sw_aep=txshracd2598
Last Tuesday Mr. Turnbull suggested we go ahead and try using Infopop's UBB.x for discussions pertaining to the remaining week's topics. This is the afforementioned tool we spoke about briefly in class. For those who haven't registered, here is a quick link in case you missed it in email.
Here's a story from the popular press about mining email to reveal social networks. Johnson suggests ad hoc social networks are more powerful than imposed organizations and mining software could help meld these together.
I decided to post this story here instead of my blog because I think it's really relevant to the class. InfoWorld has an article today on "Knowledge managing." The subtitle reads "The technology to make KM work is available -- now is the time to reconsider old implementation hurdles and reap the benefits of knowledge sharing." Some of the points in the article arewell worth reading. They also have an interview with Robert Buckman, whom they describe as "KM's father figure."
As a follow-up to my presentation, here's an article providing tips for building better intranets. It's a little light, but discusses ideas I haven't see elsewhere:
"Demystifying Intranet Design: Five Guidelines for Building Usable Sites," by Alison J. Head, Online Magazine, vol. 24, no. 4, July/August 2000, pp. 36-42.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1388/4_24/63568431/p1/article.jhtml?term=%22alison+j.+head%22
Alison Head runs her own usability firm in Sonoma, CA. (Ah, glorious wine country)
Many classmates have understandable skepticism about blogs as a KM tool, but here's an interesting example of how blogs can be used to share tacit knowledge. A few months back, I posted a little story about a neighbor and her difficulties using Zote, a Mexican laundry detergent. Apparently someone from Zote found my site through Google, and posted a comment explaining Zote. I thanked him via email, and he responded with a more detailed discussion of Zote, which I've posted here. I never would have imagined someone would have found my question and answered it, but it certainly worked out.
If you're setting up a blog for yourself, you might want to consider allowing people to signup for daily updates through e-mail. I signed up my blog (actually, my RSS feed, but you can do it even without RSS) with Bloglet. This would be an easy way for us to keep track of each other!
I ran across this recent interview with James Michalko, the director of RLG about Information Access on the Wide Open Web
He hits a lot of issues related to the difficulties of searching on the Web. His comment on availability of scholarly resources on the Web, "Some firms, such as Amazon, have created algorithms and done the computational analysis that asks, 'Did you really mean this?' and says 'If this is what you want, then you will find the following things relevant.' We must deliver authoritative trusted information using those kinds of paradigms or we will simply become museums of long-term storage instead of current use. These are some of the ways in which the CS community could make accessible on behalf of the broad Internet community enormous amounts of wonderful resources that right now are either inaccessible or severely under used."
I found a new term " Water Cooler" while I was reading class handout, Personal toolkit.
Water Cooler is "a collection of messgeboard with an unlimited number of subjects". We can discuss our interests such as hobbies, so it fuctions as a tool for collaborating information and ideas.
This site provides good example of Water Cooler.
http://commerce.vertex.net/simple/clubs/default.asp
But, I am still trying to understand what the "telesis" is.
Who has good resources to figure it out?
Well, I have managed to set up a personal blog. I used Radio UserLand and published the blog to my iSchool account: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~dcplumer/blog/.
So far, there are some features I like and others I don't. It's not free (I'm on the 30 day trial right now) and the prebuilt templates are, frankly, uninspired; I'm going to work on beautifying things tomorrow. On the plus side, the built-in news aggregator makes it VERY easy to post news stories, and it has RSS support if you like that kind of thing. It has built in e-mail posting, and I think I've enabled remote posting to my server, so it's not just a desktop solution, as the books would have you believe. There are, however, some CMS features to the desktop system that I hope to play with over time.
While I was browsing some class Web sites at Information School in University of Washington, there is a class using Weblog like we do. They are using Geeklog, the link is http://www.umlaut.org/lis546/
They integrate the whole class website, including course syllabus, calendar, quiz, and lecture notes all together with the weblog. It's very nice.
Ok ... I tried the ftp blogger setup to know avail ... think I may have entered the wrong ftp path ... so tried to let them set me up with just as little success ... anyone else having problems with blogger ... beyond slowness that is.
edit ... it was just being painfully slow ... it is working now ...
here's the link to it ...
K-logs is a yahoo group "dedicated to the discussion of Weblogs for Knowledge Management and collaborative groupware within corporations and non-profit organizations."
The discussion here doesn't seem to be as robust as the mission statement, but I thought it might be a good site to keep an eye on. If anything, it's a place to read more km-oriented feedback from bloggers.
One of the articles about "Intranets and Knowledge Organization", Web Work: Information Seeking and Knowledge Work on the World Wide Web dichotomizes Information Trait, specifically on p. 5.
Among those, I have not understood why the authors divided information trait by Clinical/ Aggregated.
Please answer for me.
I had the assignment about information-seeking behavior in the first semester in U.S. The assignment required to interview someone with pre-formatted open questionnaire, therefore, which should not have closed questions such as yes or no.
While I was interviewing interviewee, who was seeing a doctor regularly because of her eyes problem, I realized the study of information-seeking behavior is fundamental to our field, library and information science.
I found good resource about it.
Solomon, P. (1997) "Conversation in Information-Seeking Contexts: A Test of an Analytical Framework." Library & Information Science Research 19 no. 3, 217-248.
Also available on the WWW. URL:
http://ils.unc.edu/~solomon/hp/ConInfo.html
Abstract
"This article develops an analytical framework to support the analysis of conversations in information seeking contexts. The framework brings together linguistic and sociolinguistic issues such as vocabulary, cohesion, coherence, turn taking, turn allocation, overlaps, gaps, openings, closings, frames, repairs, role specification, and stylistic features. These issues serve as viewpoints for exploring how information-seeking conversations differ from casual conversation and conversations in restricted conversational domains (e.g., teacher-student; physician-patient). A sample of nine conversations from two information seeking contexts (i.e., school library media center, public library) is used to test the utility of the analytical framework and explore possible characteristics of information seeking conversations. The findings support the utility of the framework for various purposes including: training of information specialists, feedback on their performance, design of human-computer dialogues, elicitation of decision making processes during information seeking, and support for natural language processing."
Found this quick read in Business2.0 (2001) doing some hunting for articles on agents and images on the web. Thought you might find it interesting regarding our previous discussions involving Meta data, and The Semantic Web.
I'm interested in learning more about agent technology as it relates to image recognition and data organization. One problem is evident via this quote in the article, "People view pictures in a semantic way, but [attributes such as] color and texture are syntax," says Microsoft researcher Xiaoning Ling.
This short page has a list of results from a "survey" of portal customers:
John Lester's paper, Integrating and Evolving a Mob: The Growth of a Smart Mob
into a Wireless Community of Practice
...it appears that by having ubiquitous mobile data communication devices and a successful communal blog, it is possible to create an ideal environment within which a smart mob can grow into a goal-oriented mobile community of practice.
Now, where do we get this "successful communal blog" thing?
This paper is being presented at HCI International 2003 in Greece.
via hiptop.com
Website for Robert Axelrod's The Complexity of Cooperation, the sequel to his 1984 The Evolution of Cooperation.
Axelrod's work deals with the idea of the two-person iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. A quote from the preface of The Complexity of Cooperation in reference to the first book:
The theme was that cooperation based upon reciprocity can evolve and sustain itself even among egoists provided there is sufficient prospect of a long term interaction.
The site also includes a good annotated bibliography from the first book.
We did not get to have a class discussion last week, so I'm posting some questions that I would have asked in class. I have also submitted my ppt, which is available through the class Website under Week 7.
I thought the Lifestreams article was particularly interesting. It discussed organizing documents according to time, and begins to explore the idea of past, present, and future, where the past is completed work, the present consists of things that are active, and the future is about reminders of upcoming due dates. What do you all think about organizing according to time?
In records management (RM), the idea of organizing according to time is vital. The backbone of RM is the retention schedule, which determines the disposition of every document. Do your respective fields have something similar?
Listed below are some of the resources I have run across while trying to educate myself on the basics of KDD/IR (especially concerning description/discovery of Web resources). Some of the tutorials might prove helpful when tackling the assigned class readings on KDD/IR (eons from now).
KDD Glossaries
Machine Learning Glossary of Terms
Special Issue on Applications of Machine Learning and the Knowledge Discovery Process
http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ronnyk/glossary.html
Machine Discovery Terminology
compiled by W. Kloesgen and J. Zytkow
http://orgwis.gmd.de/projects/explora/terms.html
Data Mining Glossary from Two Crows -
http://www.twocrows.com/glossary.htm
Datawarehouse Terminology
by Creative Data:
http://www.credata.com/research/terminology.html
Introductory material:
KDD -
Knowledge Discovery In Databases: Tools and Techniques
by Peggy Wright
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-2/kdd.html?ROLES=0PSA0STA0EMA&DOMAIN=.acm.org
Data Mining -
Introduction to Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 3rd Ed. Published by Two Crows Corporation
http://www.twocrows.com/intro-dm.pdf
Web Resources IR -
Practical Issues for Automated Categorization of Web Sites
by John M. Pierre, Metacode Technologies, Inc.
September 2000
http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/SemWeb/proceedings/session3-3/html_version/semanticweb.html
Info on DAML+OIL from daml.org:
Tutorials on DAML+OIL from xml.com:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/01/30/daml1.html
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/03/13/daml.html
Basic basics on Ontology Inference Layer (OIL):
http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/
And, of course, more on Web Ontology Language (OWL):
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-owl-guide-20021104/#Abstract
Current work on Web Resource representation and IR:
For an overview of clickstream analysis of Web activity:
INFORMATIONWEEK.com News, March 12, 2001
Pan For Gold In The Clickstream
http://www.informationweek.com/828/prmining.htm
Using Topic Maps for Web Resources description and IR:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/11/topicmaps.html?page=1
Project Aristotle(sm): Automated Categorization of Web Resources, is a clearinghouse of projects, research, products and services that are investigating or which demonstrate the automated categorization, classification or organization of Web resources. A working bibliography of key and significant reports, papers and articles, is also provided. Projects and associated publications have been arranged by the name of the university, corporation, or other organization with which the principal investigator of a project is affiliated.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Aristotle.htm
An online textbook for those who REALLY want to get into the nitty gritty of Information Retrieval:
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, 2nd Ed (1999). by C.J. van Rijsbergen
Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~iain/keith/