Version History

0.6 More additions, including a booklist

(WHAT'S A GOOD READING ORDER?)

0.5 Evaluations section, plus list feedback

0.4 Knowledge Management Links

0.3 A couple of corrections, one addition

0.2 Added bootstrap links, changed title

0.1 Initial version

This page provides a collection of references, starting with:

• Evaluations (of references in the other sections)
• Book List
• Bootstrap/DKR/OHS
• gIBIS/IBIS
• Knowledge Representation
• Knowledge Management
• Ontologies
• Organizations
• Virtual Communities

  
  

Eric Armstrong

Gil Regev

(formality considered harmful) articles."

Designing Organizational Memory

Wicked Problems

Jack Park

re: The APECKS paper:

"Back up one directory and you get all the papers from KAW98. Back up another directory and you get all the archived workshops. What a gold mine :-)"

Lifestreams, by David Gelernter (who originated Linda, which became TSpaces, JavaSpaces, and now Jini, plus a couple of great books).

Book List

General:

Computing:

Bootstrap/DKR/OHS

Ron Goldman pointed to:

• An Overview of OHS with pointers to important papers:

  http://www.bootstrap.org/ohs/

• A list of links to other papers by Doug:

  http://www.bootstrap.org/library.htm

* Authorship provisions in Augment (1984)

http://www.bootstrap.org/oad-2250.htm

* Collaboration Support Provisions in AUGMENT (1984)

http://www.bootstrap.org/oad-2221.htm

* Toward High-Performance Organizations:
A Strategic Role for Groupware

http://www.bootstrap.org/augment-132811.htm

Roy Roebuck suggested these:

• Roy's General Enterprise Dynamic Object - GEDO
  An object-management system explored, along with other concepts and designs at:

  http://one-world-is.com/rer/owis/

• GEDO applied to general DKR:

  http://www.infoloom.com/

  http://www.topicmaps.com/

• ISO/IEC 13250:1999 TopicMap standard

• General object model

  http://omg.org

• Force's (DMTF) Common Information Model's (CIM) metaschema

  http://www.dmtf.org/spec/cim_spec_v22/#_Toc453584954)

• LDAP Object Model

  http://www.ldapcentral.com/

• XML/XLL/XSL and XMI

  http://www.w3.org/XML/

• InfoMap Multicentric Information Map

  http://www.multicentric.com/

• Artificial Brain

  http://www.thebrain.com

• A MindMan MindMap

  http://www.mindmanager.com

• Interchange between knowledge tools/stores using XML.

  http://www.ms.lt/

• General Enterprise Management (GEM) tree underlying GEDO
  A hierarchy for namespace and categorization management

  http://one-world-is.com/rer/owis/dem/slides/img034.gif

• Documentum

• INSO

• COI

  http://www.coi.com

• Book: William Kent's Data & Reality (1978)

• Star/Rose (Kent's system)

  http://www.bkent.net/

  http://home.earthlink.net/~billkent/catalogsource.htm

• Collaborative Virtual Workspace, by MITRE.

  http://cvw.mitre.org/cvw/info/CVWOverview.php3

• LXR (general hypertext cross-referencing tool):

  http://lxr.linux.no/

• Starting points for Mozilla's use of LXR:

  http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/

• LXR: An example web page for a source file with links:

  http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/gfx/src/nsColor.cpp

• Slashdot discussion on Organizing Open Source:

  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/02/0950230

• (Doug's) objectives for the Colloquium....

  http://www.welchco.com/sd/08/00101/02/99/12/22/104523.HTM#3977

• POIMS: Augmenting human thinking, commonly called

  "intelligence"

  http://www.welchco.com/03/00050/01/09/01/02/00030.HTM#0561

• Knoware: a Java applet that implements a collaborative concept mapping or mind mapping space. The applet relies on a server that stores all concepts, relationships and attached document, links in a relational database, and sends them back to the applet as an XML string. The applet queries the server through simple http requests." (Note: The applet was written by Gil.)

  Two public sites that demonstrate the tool:

  http://icapc4.epfl.ch/knowarepub

  Public site. No cleanup or moderation. Total anarchy.

  http://icapc4.epfl.ch/g99space

  Discussion following a workshop on multi-cultural design of collaborative environments. Includes search capability.

• Principia Cybernetica

  http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/

• Tom's CSCW & Groupware

  http://www.usabilityfirst.com/cscw.html

• Concept Mapping Homepage

  http://www.to.utwente.nl/user/ism/lanzing/cm_home.htm

• Lifestreams

  By David Gelernter ( who originated Linda, which became TSpaces, JavaSpaces, and now Jini and a couple of great books)

  http://www.mirrorworlds.com/products/index.html

• Notes

  E-mail, calendaring, group scheduling, Web access and information management

  http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/notes

• LearningSpace

  Distance learning platform integrating live, asynchronous, and self-paced content delivery

  http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/learnspace

• Sametime

  Real-time collaboration software solution with chat, whiteboarding and application sharing

  http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/sametime

  
  

gIBIS is a graphical implementation of the IBIS concept.

Here is background on IBIS:

Here is an abstract of Jeff Conklin's ACM paper:

This page has a link that appears to go the paper, rather than the abstract, but it wasn't working when I followed it:

A nice diagram of gIBIS concepts:

A summary of IBIS that mentions gIBIS and points the major difficulty with the system: "cognitive overhead":

"Integrating Voting Techniques into a Discussion Rationale Model-based GDSS"

Jack Park mentioned:

Constraint Graphs: A Concept Map Meta-Language, by Rob Kremer (A dissertation that describes the technology under gIBIS.)

Knowledge Representation

A paper on knowledge representation:

(it looks readable, although I haven't gone through it)

"Towards Knowledge Representation:
The State of Data and Processing Modeling Standards"

A potentially valuable paper on system called "Grassroots" that unfortunately has had the line-endings squeezed out of it:

"Groupware for Developing Critical Discussion Skills"

"Supporting Development of Synchronous Collaboration Tools on the Web with GroCo"

"Negotiating the Construction of Organizational Memory Using Hypermedia Argument Spaces"

"Hypermedia Version Support for the Online Design Journal"

"Working Apart Together Foundations for Component Groupware"

(A collection of references. Many downloadable.)

"Capturing Organization Memory"

"Designing Organizational Memory:
Preserving Intellectual Assets in a Knowledge Economy"

"Formality Considered Harmful: Experiences,
Emerging Themes, and Directions"

Design Rationale for Complex System Documentation

Center for Strategic Technology Research:

"Embedding Critics in Design Environments"

"Open Peer Review & Argumentation:

"HyperContext: Using Context in Adaptive Hypertext"

"IT and Hypertext: Towards a Literary Renaissance?"

"From a Web to a linear HTML document"

"Expert systems and CYC"

"Practical Knowledge Representation for the Web"

"Community is Knowledge! in (KA)2

"Technologies, techniques, and disciplines in knowledge management"

"ARTIFICIAL HUMAN NATURE"

"What is a Knowledge Representation?"

"Finding and Using Implicit Structure in Human-Organized Spatial Layouts of Information"

Knowledge Management

Autonomy (KM systems)

Knowledge Management Consortium

Dataware Knowledge Management Suite

Product Sampler for Knowledge Management Tools
(A collection of links to KM tools)

PolyDoc -- technologies for Knowledge Management

TheBrain.com -- a user interface that organizes digital information in a single, visual structure.

Collection of pages on Groupware

IBM Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management "Metazine" from Knowledge Transfer Int'l

Domain Knowledge Inc.

"enables users from all levels of an organization to perform detailed process documentation and knowledge management"

Ontologies

"Java Ontology Browser" (a working applet)

"APECKS: A Tool to Support Living Ontologies"

Listed here, but their links appear to be broken:

"Ontology FRAME-ONTOLOGY"

"An Ontology for Engineering Mathematics"

"How We Might Reach Agreement on Shared Ontologies:

A Fundamental Approach"

"An Ontology Tool for Query Formulation in an Agent-Based Context"

Modeling for Natural Language Understanding

"Ontology Acquisition: Situated Development"

"Ontology Definitions" (part of a slide presentation that is supposed to go on to cover "Ontological Enterprise Modeling"

Book: Laird John, Rosenbloom Paul & Newell Allen:

Software Agent Technologies

"Modeling and Simulation Literature" A collection of links:

"Knowledge and Hypermedia"

"AI on the Web"

Huge collection of links.

"Cyc: The Wright Manhattan Project for AI"

Computer Associates' system based on neural networks:

Organizations

"Transforming an Existing Organization into a Learning Organization"

"Blending Cultural Transformation and Groupware to Create a Learning Organization"

Virtual Communities

A Virtual Communities NIC:

The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture

Sincerely

Eric Armstrong