Engelbart Augmentation Team
Group of people assembling around 2018-12-09-50thAnniversaryOfEngelbartMotherOfAllDemos. Includes Mark Bernstein and Jack Park.
Engelbart Demo at 50
“We need to become better at being humans. Learning to use symbols and knowledge in new ways, across groups, across cultures, is a powerful, valuable, and very human goal.
It is with these words we invite you to join us as we work to re-ignite the revolution by celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ‘mother of all demos’ by building useful software tools:
What is Still Missing
Basic innovations which is still not in general use, or even in use at all, which are all powerful aspects of a DKR which we can really benefit from:
This list is largely from Authorship Provisions In Augment.
We ran a survey within the initial group and this is what we found: High Resolution links and ViewSpecs are considered important:
Rich ViewSpecs (View Specifications) Allows the user to decide how to view a document, including options to show only the first sentence of every paragraph and so on (cf Paragraph Addressable
High Resolution Linking, so that a link can point to a specific sentence, paragraph or any other object within a document, not just to the document as a whole
What We Are Building
Our aim is to start building infrastructures and services to enable a DKR fit for the 21st Century. We aim to do this by integrating with and extend current infrastructures and projects to make it possible to deliver at least some of the functionality described in What is Still Missing.
PRIMARY PROJECTS
rather than be one more such attempt on our own, we want to help unify
The protocol supports interoperability
We are developing an online journal called ‘jrnl’
Exaptive – jrnl
The Exaptive Platform is a set of tools for facilitating cross-disciplinary innovation. The Exaptive Studio is a modular programming environment that makes it easier for the tools and techniques from one discipline to be applied in other fields and creatively appropriated for other use-cases. The Exaptive Cognitive City leverages metadata from the Studio, as well incorporating metadata from other external sources, to dynamically build networks based on the work people do and to recommend collaboration and teams optimized for ideation and innovation.
We want to establish a Web of Knowledge
We can distinguish three layers:
Hyperdocument layer
HyperDocuments are composite structures, and a composite’s subdocuments may either be composites again or document fragments.
Hyperknowledge layer
The hyperknowledge graph consists of entities which express concepts (aka topics) through data structures (known as subject proxies in the topic map literature), and can be associated to documents.
Distributed hypergraph
We are proposing an ecosystemic approach to knowledge, where many processes produce and consume knowledge, and maintain distinct knowledge bases, which we call knowledge realms.
each knowledge process consumes and produces immutable Knowledge Events, representing assertion or retraction of statements about concepts
Webleau progress (Liquid Space) – jrnl
this is a quick update on Webleau (Web Tableau) part of my suite of ideas for how I’d like information systems to work. A guiding principle for me is that people should be able to get a feel for what’s going on and it should be “easy to do the right thing”, rather than a chore.
The webleau idea is based on an older tool I made, wiki explorer, which was a tool for exploring wikipedia, linked data and other graphs of information. It used
In order to honour a small part of his legacy, we are continuing to build our version/inspiration of his Journal (which we are calling just ‘jrnl’) which aims to deliver on some of the interactive elements which he invented but which are largely missing from today’s online environments and that is this project. This includes implicit linking and high resolution linking as well as a connection to a new type of ViewSpec; Liquid Space⋮ and Glossary.
In order to realise our goal of producing something visibly useful which can be used by anyone who can host a web page, the jrnl has the WordPress blogging platform as its core. This platform we believe has a lot to offer, as Wired recently wrote “it’s time for an rss revival.
The point jrnl is that we believe that connected online documents are still in infancy. We can and must do better.
after the 9th – jrnl
It’s been suggested that we ‘eat our own dogwood’ and that we should therefore use Exaptive and KnowFlow, which I personally agree with.
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