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S U M M A R Y


DIARY: April 20, 2000 03:14 PM Thursday; Rod Welch

Review Traction, other DKR projects.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Traction Can be Improved with Hierarchial Control
3...Search for "Killer App" Focuses on Knowledge/Enterprise Management
4...Sponsors Looking for Projects in Knowledge Management Arena


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CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
OHS Open Hyperdocument System
XML Editing Capability
Traction Journal Management, 000326

1205 -    ..
1206 - Summary/Objective
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120701 - Follow up ref SDS 31 0000, ref SDS 30 0000.
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1210 - Progress
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121101 -  ..
121102 - Traction Can be Improved with Hierarchial Control
121103 -
121104 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Eric Armstrong with additional comments
121105 - on reviewing Traction.  This supplements recommendation reported on
121106 - 00418 in Eric's letter, ref DRP 1 0001 dated 000416, ref SDS 31 3450,
121107 - and initially on 000414. ref SDS 30 3450
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121109 - Eric says today there is no sense of "hierarchical document" in
121110 - Traction.  So a conventional email message like his letter and others
121111 - discussing Traction, goes out as one contiguous whole, rather than a
121112 - collection of paragraph-sized fragments.  The only way for comments to
121113 - appear "in context", therefore, is to edit the node directly.  He
121114 - feels this is effective for a single comment, but breaks down quickly
121115 - in a long discussion, especially given the lack of hierarchical
121116 - display-controls in such a setting. ref DRT 1 0001
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121118 -     [On 000420 at project meeting today, "seed" team decided to use
121119 -     email system that supports links. ref SDS 32 2537
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121121 -     [On 000601 Eric cites Traction methodology for catagories, saying
121122 -     they can be hierarchial. ref SDS 35 4895
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121124 - Eric confirms favorable opinion that Traction integrates
121125 - version, categorizing (plus re-categorizing and an audit trail of
121126 - changes), and attributions. But the system as it stands today seems to
121127 - run more by queries than by browsing, so maybe it is more of a
121128 - "journaling" system than an interactive discussion tool. ref DRT 1
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121131 -    On 000405 Eric was not favorably impressed by journaling.
121132 -    ref SDS 22 1972
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121134 -    On 000414 Eric found Traction journaling was a "Diamond."
121135 -    ref SDS 30 5850
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121137 -    On 000418 Eric recommended Traction for DKR team. ref SDS 31 3450
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121139 - Still: Chris assures us that their whole outfit uses it all the time,
121140 - for everything, so possibly there is still a lot of power to be gained
121141 - from the system after resetting one's expectations... ref DRT 1 2501
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SUBJECTS
Sponsor/Stakeholder Planning
Killer Application
Other DKR Projects Trying to Create OHS
Market Conditions

2007 - 2238
2008 -
200801 -  ..
200802 - Search for "Killer App" Focuses on Knowledge/Enterprise Management
200803 - Sponsors Looking for Projects in Knowledge Management Arena
200804 -
200805 - Follow up ref SDS 21 2808, ref SDS 15 4877.
200806 -
200807 - Received second letter from Eric, ref DRT 2 0001, that lists other
200808 - projects with similar objectives to create DKR and OHS system.
200809 -
200810 - This supplements Lee Iverson's report on 000324 that a number of other
200811 - projects are underway. ref SDS 15 4877  On 000307 Doug Engelbart asked
200812 - the DKR team to define KM similar to Bellinger's work, who is
200813 - developing a KM system. ref SDS 7 4820  On 000330 Marcello Hoffman
200814 - advised other projects have not developed a breakthrough design for
200815 - knowledge management, i.e., nobody knows what to do. ref SDS 21 0713
200816 -
200817 - What was criteria for the list of DKR projects?
200818 -
200819 -    Why isn't Bellinger listed, cited by Doug on 000307? ref SDS 7 4820
200820 -
200821 -    Why isn't Welch listed, cited by Dick Karpinski on 000227,
200822 -    ref SDS 4 0897, and by Jack Park on 000405? ref SDS 22 2928
200823 -
200824 -      [On 000426 Jack Park cites Augment, Welch, Gelerntern, etc.,
200825 -      ref SDS 33 3315,
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200827 -      [On 000427 project team reviews DKR capabilities, does not
200828 -      consider Welch nor Bellinger. ref SDS 34 3944
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