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- Thanksgiving thoughts on KM from HMB, CA '08Today
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To the Special Libraries Association KM SIG
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I’ll take a shot from a broader long-term perspective that may be of
interest- my lens on KM is shaped from being a business/management
consultant prior to the Internet era and converting it into a knowledge
incubator for a decade, building and operating two significant online
learning networks (small business and global thought leaders), venture
capital, brief board member on U.S. Gov CIO WG for KM, and finally
inventor/founder of a holistic multi-disciplinary knowledge system.-During the initial Internet revolution many organizations profited from
initial efforts that would later be considered KM, particularly in
competitive intel, seizing opportunities, and knowledge worker productivity.-As the boom continued, information overload quickly outpaced technical
innovation in dealing with it. There was a battle between legacy desktop
systems and the Internet in particular. Standards were slow to be adopted.- In the late 1990s KM became a fad and credibility was damaged -a large
portion of those charged with decisions were very unhappy with their KM
investments and programs. Many KM vendors and consultants fought any attempt
at accountability and I would say most were anti-technology and/or tools-
directly conflicting with important disciplines within t - sematic search for enterprise systems - interview with Daniel Tunkelang of EndecaYesterday
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http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/one-one-daniel-tunkelang-endeca/2008-11-25
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FCM: What are some of the areas, in your view, that need improvement in enterprise search?
DT: Many people have raised the prospect of social search in the enterprise–specifically, the idea that people will tag content within the enterprise and benefit from each other’s tagging. The reality of social search, however, has not lived up to the vision.
In order for social search to succeed, enterprise workers need to supply their proprietary knowledge in a process that is not only as painless as possible, but demonstrates the return on investment. We believe that our work at Endeca, on bootstrapping knowledge bases, can help bring about effective social search in the enterprise.
The other major area that comes to mind is federation. As much as an enterprise may value its internal content, much of the content that its workers need resides outside the enterprise. An effective enterprise search tool needs to facilitate users’ access to all of these content sources while preserving value and context of each.
FCM: What impact will semantic search have on Enterprise search and what are you exploring in that area?DT: Semantic search means different things to different people, but broadly falls into two categories: Using lingui
- time goes by so quickly... and sematic web in simple languageYesterday
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and i still didnt get to discuss web 3.0 and semantic web (the post i owe you guys for september).
i am linking to Rick Murphy’s blog http://phaneron.rickmurphy.org/ in my blogroll section as I have found his blog fascinating and recommend it strongly to those of you interested in sematics. it is not an easy read if you are not into techy terms and way of thinking, but please do not be deterred by language and ideas - this is a well worth reading blog.
and now, for those of us not so clear on sematics language and meaning, here’s the basics:
Semantics - is the study of meaning and signification. this can be applied under many areas such as math, language, computers, psychologt, etc
Semantic Search, from wikipedia: “attempts to augment and improve traditional Research Searches by leveraging XML and RDF data from semantic networks to disambiguate semantic search queries and web text in order to increase relevancy of results”.
XML - we all know, is a technology that allows communication.
RDF -resource description framework. a W3C data specification, a genral “method of modelling information” (W3C),
- The case for strong narrativesYesterday
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A former colleague, Silver Oliver, makes the case for web-scalable narratives. Music to my ears:
“As we build larger and larger websites it becomes increasingly difficult to scale meaningful user journeys. Success is dependent on indentifying your key user journeys (narrative structures) and ensuring these can be dynamically populated as the site grows.”
He argues that, in contrast to tags which “help to open up new user journeys but are weak in narrative, taking the form ‘this content is about this tag’”; there is a need to think about the right primary narrative structures and to encode these user journeys into the very core of the site.
Oliver cites well known examples:
- Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought - noun (book) verb (also bought) noun (book)
- Buy it now - noun (user) verb (buy) noun (item)
- Such and such wrote on your Wall - noun (friend) verb (wrote on) noun (wall)
and goes on to suggest they can be scalable to the semantic web using ontologies and domain models.
- Day Dreaming About Voice WebNovember 29
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“IBM Next Five in Five” is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years.
New technology will change how people create, build and interact with information and e-commerce websites – using speech instead of text. We know this can happen because the technology is available, but we also know it can happen because it must. In places like India, where the spoken word is more prominent than the written word in education, government and culture, “talking” to the Web is leapfrogging all other interfaces, and the mobile phone is outpacing the PC.
Here is the list from the IBM’s article.
- Energy saving solar technology will be built into asphalt, paint and windows
- You will have a crystal ball for your health
- You will talk to the Web . . . and the Web will talk back
- You will have your own digital shopping assistants
- Forgetting will become a distant memory
One of my favorite hobbies is to pick one or more of these and try to figure out what we need to get there. It is a good way to dream about the near future and try to see where the gaps are and do some intermediate predictions.
Here are some random, incomplete thoughts for the Voice Web. There are seve