Abstract
Collaboratories consisting of systems of information tools are increasingly
important as mediators of joint work in distributed groups. These systems
should be constructed in a testbed development process. Such a process is
far from trivial, and must be continuously improved. To aid in this improvement
process, a tool context model is presented, in which the information system,
work, design, and improvement contexts of the information tools making up
a collaboratory can be represented. Using ontological, norm and rule definitions,
the links between various context processes can be systematically defined
and analyzed, promoting system integration.
Abstract
Discusses ongoing work with the email archive of the Unrev-II list. Computational
methods for determining aboutness of subjects, messages and threads will be
tested using the archive contents. Extracted levels of aboutness could then
be used in an iterative process to generate facets and to provide conceptual
access to the archive. Hypothesis: Tools such as latent semantic analysis,
vector space models, traditional concordancing, and self-organizing maps may
be worthwhile tools to generate meaningful clusters in the dataset. These
clusters would then be used as aids in the human process of facet analysis
in order to generate a faceted access structure1 for the conceptual content
of the archive or similar textual repositories.
Abstract
PORT is a project aiming to permit the electronic storage of C.S. Peirce's
writings, their conceptual annotation and organization by a restricted number
of scholars, and their access, querying and navigation by Web users.
We show how a knowledge-based system such as WebKB could be used as a support
for the collaborative conceptual annotation and organization of the documents,
or more precisely, of the document elements (e.g. word, sentence, part of
image, section) of interest to the users. WebKB permits any Web user to contribute
to this work and permit them to collaborate without having to agree on semantic
or lexical issues. A user may navigate and query the knowledge of all users
or selected (kinds of) users.
Abstract
Peirce's signs provide a common language for knowledge. Because a Web is essentially
a kind of knowledge representation, we argue that our model of Peirce's signs
can be useful for a successful implementation of a Pragmatic Web.
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