Cutting the trees of knowledge: Social software, information archiecture and

their epistemic consequences

Cutting the trees of knowledge: Social software, information archiecture and

their epistemic consequences

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Schiltz, M.,Truyen, F.,& Coppens,H.(2007)

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V.

Downloadable Beliefs

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The cognitive process

first-order beliefs→metabeliefs

traditional beliefs→ downloadable beliefs

Metabelief ： a belief about beliefs

downloadable beliefs： search and download what

they need through social knowledge network

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priori knowledge―"A person is a priori entitled to believe as true, when it is intelligible to him and when he has no stronger reasons to reject it."―Schiltz, Truyen, & Coppens,2007

"Cognitive process ain't all in the head!"―Clark and Chalmers,1998

Feature: knowledge of facts→knowledge of beliefs

Channels: individuality→social community

The cognitive process

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“social knowledge network help to redefine knowledge against its traditional definition, and change people's views of the structure of scientific belief. "―Schiltz, Truyen, & Coppens,2007

Social Knowledge Networks

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social knowledge network

Inmagic―a social knowledge network virtual company for enterprise organizations

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content management

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VI.

Knowledge Economy

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Idle human intelligence―the world is populated with millions of very capable brains. The internet allow people to utilize these unused resources.

Two-way communities: experts network and users network

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VII.Cutting the trees of knowledge

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"Co-dependent social-technological artifacts shift in knowledge production, distribution and vindication semantically affected people dealing with information."― Schiltz, Truyen, & Coppens,2007

eg: Open Source Software

“Software systems are not purely technical objects. They are designed, constructed and used by people.Therefore, they compose in larger socio-technical systems which include technological as well as social structures. ”―Robertas Damaševičius

social-technological artifacts

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“An STS perspective envisions a world of complex organizations that routinely employ technicians/engineers to develop systems for users, where success in developing a system depends on the participation and sustained involvement of the system’s users. ”―Walt Scacchi

people: developers, end-users

products: systems, documentation,

processes: system design and usage

Socio-Technical Systems （ STS ）

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"STINs are an emerging conceptual framework for identifying, organizing, and comparatively analyzing patterns of social interaction, system development, and the configuration of components that constitute an information system."―Walt Scacchi

people

equipment

resources

data

enforcement mechanisms

Socio-technical interaction networks (STINs)

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traditional taxonomy

tree network topology

Dewey Decimal Classfication(DDC)

Universal Decimal Classfication(UDC)

Library of Congress Subject Classification

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further subordering

adding more references

constantly update

digital storage

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VIII.

The future of classification

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"tagging is link a concept to its social practice."―Schiltz, Truyen, & Coppens,2007

eg:

bookmarking―Del.icio.us

social photo sharing ―Flickr

tagging

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A folksonomy is a type of distributed classification system. It is usually created by a group of individuals,typically the resource users.

''folksonomies expand people understanding by showing the overlap between many related concepts and how they merge into the wealth of social practices that give them meaning.'' ―Schiltz, Truyen, & Coppens,2007

folksonomy

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searchcloud.net

http://searchcloud.net/

tweet3D.com

http://www.tweet3d.com/

tagclouds

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Intro to the Semantic Web

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGg8A2zfWKg&feature=youtube_gdata

The Semantic Web is a web that is able to describe things in a way that computers can understand.

The Semantic Web describes the relationships between things and the properties of things.

semantic web

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"the semantic web is a component of 'Web 3.0'."―Berners-Lee

intelligent: based on people's preferences

Openness: open software, open data and APIs

The future Web: Web 3.0

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Web 3.0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsNcjya56v8&feature=related

The future Internet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXlKIJoSLVM&feature=related

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Schiltz, M.,Truyen, F.,& Coppens,H.(2007).Cutting the trees of knowledge: Social software, information archiecture and their epistemic consequences. Los Angeles,London, New Delji and Singpore: SAGE Publication.

Clark, A., & Chalmers D.J.(1998).The extended mind, Analysis 58:10-23. http://consc.net/papers/extended.html

Damaševičius R.(2006). Analysis of Software Design Artifacts for Socio-Technical Aspects.Retrieved April 28, 2010,from www.dcc.ufla.br/infocomp/artigos/v6.4/art02.pdf

Scacchi,W.(2004).Socio-Technical Interaction Networks in Free/Open Source Software Development Processes. Retrieved April, 28, 2010, from www.ics.uci.edu/~wscacchi/Papers/New/STIN-chapter.pdf

Kling, R., Kim, G., and King, R., A Bit More to IT: Scholarly Communication Forums asSocio-T echnical Interaction Networks, Journal American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 47-67, 2003.

Berners-Lee, Tim; Fischetti, Mark (1999). Weaving the Web. HarperSanFrancisco. chapter 12. ISBN 9780062515872.

References

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http://elatewiki.org/index.php/Socio-Technical_Systems

http://www.inmagic.com/social-knowledge-networks

http://www.inmagic.com/about-inmagic

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Inmagic-Supports-Increasing-bw-2535831934.html?x=0&.v=1

http://www.w3schools.com/semweb/default.asp

http://internet.suite101.com/article.cfm/what_is_web_30

http://searchcloud.net/

http://www.tweet3d.com/

Intro to the Semantic Web

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGg8A2zfWKg&feature=youtube_gdata

Web 3.0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsNcjya56v8&feature=related

The future Internet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXlKIJoSLVM&feature=related

References

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