(2009-05-20) Park Federated Knowledge Gardening

Jack Park deck on federated Knowledge Gardening. (cf Digital Garden). Nice example of two people's unrelated posts about a shared subject ("Free Radicals") get connected (by a human) by both referring to that Tag (WikiWordAsTag, Shared Vocabulary).

Which leads to a Claim by a 3rd person.

Which leads to that Claim being refined by a 4th person.

And further discussion/debate via "Hypermedia Discourse" (aka IBIS, Disputation Arena)

TopicMaps as integration tool?

• see 2020 deck that touches this - TopicMaps as Visualization tool for conversation.
• I'm still not sold that the added structure of TopicMaps adds enough value, but hard to know...
• maybe this: "many claims involve many entities in complex relationships, and should be represented as such". I'm not sure this captures the essence of reality in a way that allows AI/ML/NLP, and it feels too confusing for humans to manage. Maybe I'm wrong.