Category Archives: Knowledge management

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Annotation. 2021

Posted on May 19, 2021 by x28

My latest read is Annotation, a great book by Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia. MIT Press 2021. And here are some of the things I learned: 1. More on Social Annotation: “We can think of an information infrastructure as part … Continue reading →

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Annotation interactivity

Posted on May 18, 2021 by x28

The ‘stepchild’ annotation has engaged me since long ago.
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Tools vs. practice

Posted on August 11, 2017 by x28

Jim McGee wrote a great piece on tools and practices. He argues that the ease of getting started with the first 5% is deceptive. I think it is important that we distinguish between “deep thought and collaborative work”. Tools for these two coincide only for roughly 5%.
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Magic of Zettelkasten

Posted on December 1, 2016 by x28

My tool is now able to import from/ export to tools that are inspired by Luhmann’s famous Zettelkasten. The magic of this was that he allowed for arbitrary branching at every point in his hierarchical numbering scheme,
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The “43 KM definitions” as Topicmap Demo

Posted on March 21, 2008 by x28

Finally, the promising think tool Deepamehta installs with a doubleclick on a simple XP machine, and so I can at last recommend to try it out.
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Knowledge Roads

Posted on December 23, 2007 by x28

A new German book on Methods for the Personal Knowledge Management was published. For me, it does not work. I have the impression that all the analytical dissections and definitions are somehow mincing, or missing, some of the most challenging problems that exist for a knowledge worker. But if you understand German, you should definitely obtain this thought-provoking book.
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Concepts not nodes

Posted on April 22, 2007 by x28

In an interesting discussion between G. Siemens and S. Downes, they are addressing “knowledge elements”, concepts, nodes in the network, and entities. I am trying to understand the issues by looking at the “ports” of the network nodes.
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RDF humanized

Posted on April 1, 2007 by x28

Resource descriptions are not the adequate approach for supporting human learning and knowledge. But there are also people working on more humanized RDF approaches.
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Meta-data and person to person connections

Posted on March 19, 2006 by x28

Meta-data and person to person connections
Another great post by D. Grey, about how meta-data can enhance collections/ content by means of connections/ context.
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Conceptual Data Structures for PKM

Posted on December 19, 2005 by x28

What data structures do humans think in? What data types should be supported by a cognitively adequate PKM tool?
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