What if Wiki’s are crap?

We are what we share

The perils of popularity

The perils of popularity

I am giving a talk tomorrow at Yahoo Research Labs titled “The perils of popularity“. There has been a lot of excitement about how web-based social systems harness the wisdom of crowds. I want to challenge that notion. I also want to challenge some of Chris Anderson’s assertions about the long tail. [...]

Concept Browsing

Conzilla2 - our second generation concept browser - is a knowledge management tool with many purposes. Among other things, it aims to be

an efficient collaborative knowledge environment / modeling tool.
a versatile interface for editing and styling RDF.

Conzilla presents knowledge in terms of specific maps, Context-maps. A Context-map displays nodes and arcs, from now on referred [...]

Knowledge has become social (surprise !)

Snip from Macro Principles
Even if it may seem obvious, this is a pretty deep MP. I was reminded of by this presentation of David Weinberger. What made me notice and reflect was two pieces.
First, his mailing-list. You subscribe to lots of mailing-lists. On each, there’s at least one true expert, even the leading one, who [...]

Wide-Open Semantic Space

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008  http://blog.semantichacker.com/?cat=3
TextWise Semantic Signatures® are based on vector spaces with thousands of dimensions, each corresponding to a single concept in some domain of interest. We use a special semantic dictionary to map the content of a given text document into a point within that conceptual space; and one can then gauge the [...]

Makes you think!

Shift Happens!

Semantic Signatures

Unlocking the intellectual capital trapped inside organizations that deal with enormous amounts of text is a major challenge. To accelerate the development of new semantic business applications tackling this problem, TextWise LLC, a pioneer in semantic application development, today announced the SemanticHacker Innovators’ Challenge (SHIC). TextWise is offering a $1 million incentive for each useful [...]

Information architecture and taxonomy courses

TFPL, knowledge and information management services:
TFPL Training - Course Subjects:
Information architecture and taxonomy – structures, standards and tools for effective navigation and retrieval.
Information architecture and taxonomy training courses     Information architecture & taxonomy course brochure 2008
Level 1 (Foundation)
For delegates with little or no experience in the subject.
Course title
Information architecture foundation programme: bringing order to information [...]

The importance of Taxonomy and Metadata

How many readers realise the absolute importance of getting the taxonomy, ontology and metadata correct for all the future developments in digital media?
Having spent yesterday at the Henry Stewart conference on the Essentials of Metadata & Taxonomy, I am in no doubt as we grow in complexity and move towards semantic web applications, that companies [...]

Thinking about data

Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns (e.g. XHTML, blogging).
microformats are:

a way of thinking about data
design [...]