CONTACTS 
0202 - SRI International                                                                                                                                                  O-00000103 1201
020201 - Mr. Jack Park;
020203 - CALO Project                                                                                                                                                     O-00000103 1201

SUBJECTS
Blue Oxen Collaboration Internet Web Site  Gve Up No Evidence Activi

3103 -
3103 -    ..
3104 - Summary/Objective
3105 -
310501 - Follow up ref SDS 43 0000, ref SDS 42 0000.
310502 -
310503 -
310504 -
310505 -
310507 -  ..
3106 -
3107 -
3108 - Progress
3109 -
310901 - Failure Apply Granular Addressability Loss Faith Deferred Rewards
310902 -
310903 - Follow up ref SDS 43 OV3G, ref SDS 43 OV3G.
310904 -
310905 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Gary responding to Jack's letter received
310906 - on 070831 proposing continued interest in explicit links for Knowledge
310907 - Management. ref SDS 43 OV3G
310909 -  ..
310910 - Gary says to Jack...
310911 -
310912 -    1.  If I gave any impression that I disparage purple numbers or
310913 -        high performance addressing, it was my communication failure.
310914 -        ref DRT 1 0001
310916 -         ..
310917 -    2.  Purple numbers are a powerful implementation of granular
310918 -        addressability.  I wish I could have them universally.  They
310919 -        present a "two worlds problem" of their own since trying to get
310920 -        them in Word or PDF is infeasible (so far as I know).
310921 -        ref DRT 1 PT5O
310923 -  ..
310924 - Word and PDF can be easily rendered in text.  SDS adds anchors to text
310925 - files instantly that bridge this part of the 2-worlds problem.  Gary
310926 - may be relating to the "fools gold" problem that doing nothing is
310927 - always faster and easier than doing anything, reviewed on 070831.
310928 - ref SDS 43 1J9U
310930 -  ..
310931 - Gary's letter to Jack continues...
310932 -
310933 -    3.  I would love to have Purple Numbers in email, for example.
310934 -        Blue Oxen, for example, archived email, but applied purple
310935 -        numbers *after* the email was relayed.  Using purple numbers in
310936 -        the transmitted email would likely have required either HTML
310937 -        email or a special email client, neither of which they ever
310938 -        did. ref DRT 1 9U6K
310940 -  ..
310941 - How did purple numbers help people?
310943 -  ..
310944 - SDS adds explicit links to the record shown by Gary's letter today.
310945 - ref DRT 1 9U6K
310946 -
310947 -
310949 -  ..
310950 - Search Holy Grail Computer Internet Helpful and Misleading
310951 - Needle in Haystack Essential and Dangerous Search Technology
310952 - Search Finds Needle in Haystack Needs Context for Power of Knowledge
310953 - Everything Miscellaneous Makes Search Holy Grail Computer Productivity
310954 -
310955 - Follow up ref SDS 40 HE6N.
310956 -
310957 - Gary's letter to Jack continues...
310958 -
310959 -    4.  I am all in favor of high performance search.  Even with a best
310960 -        of indexed collections there are times when you know something
310961 -        is in there but have no idea where.  Anything that can dig it
310962 -        out is of benefit, and the better job it can do, the better I
310963 -        like it. ref DRT 1 J97H
310965 -  ..
310966 - On 070126 Jack submitted a reference to Gelertner's Lifestreams work,
310967 - which described "search" as the current "holy grail" of desktop
310968 - computing, ref SDS 38 4U9H, along the lines of interest in data mining
310969 - and search engines for business intelligence, reported on 980226.
310970 - ref SDS 9 1247
310972 -  ..
310973 - On 070623 Morris indexed his computer to increase speed finding
310974 - things; after nearly 6 hours, indexing was still underway. ref SDS 39
310975 - IE8K
310977 -  ..
310978 - Finding accurate information in time to be effective has long been
310979 - recognized for improving daily work, especially human reasoning that
310980 - drives productivity, reported on 900319. ref SDS 2 1323  On 070830,
310981 - Jack suggested people read a book by David Weinberger on this issue.
310982 - ref SDS 42 I19J  Prior review on 070729, shows that in "Everything is
310983 - Miscellaneous" Weinberger notes common storage practices that make
310984 - finding accurate information increasingly more difficult. ref SDS 40
310985 - HE6N  On 970707 USAFIT reported that all major projects fail because
310986 - management degrades to entropy filing everything miscellaneous.
310987 - ref SDS 7 0108
310989 -     ..
310990 -    [On 071113 meeting Morris discuss SDS design for responsiveness to
310991 -    optimize productivity organizing the record to make finding
310992 -    information in time to be effective by having everything in the
310993 -    right place at the right time, rather than filing everything under
310994 -    miscellaneous. ref SDS 46 446N
310996 -  ..
310997 - Search that finds the "needle" all alone in a hay stack is very
310998 - helpful, but often misleading.  Context and chronology in relation to
310999 - prior related events and subsequent consequences are essential for
311000 - trend analysis to understand causation that converts information into
311001 - the power of knowledge, see NWO. ref OF 10 I38N
311003 -  ..
311004 - Search technology to assemble information showing chronology that
311005 - connects cause and effect helps solve difficulties caused by filing
311006 - everything under miscellaneous, reviewed on 070729. ref SDS 40 738G
311008 -  ..
311009 - Gary commented the next day on 070831 noting technology that makes
311010 - context management fast and easy encourages greater use. ref SDS 43
311011 - LG4J  The Knowledge Management dilemma is that dilligence can be
311012 - reduced to make working intelligently fast, easy, fun, and very
311013 - productive, but doing something, will always take more time than doing
311014 - nothing. ref SDS 43 TJ3G
311015 -
311016 -
311018 -  ..
311019 - Other Tools Viable Approach Knowledge Management No Work Product
311020 - SDS Approach Knowledge Management Enables Finding Every Little Thing
311021 -
311022 -
311023 -    5.  The fact that SDS faces the same sets of issues and has
311024 -        elements that work well in at least some circumstances in no
311025 -        way indicates that it has the only viable approach. ref DRT 1
311026 -        T97N
311028 -  ..
311029 - On 070729 Jack sent a letter suggesting people read Everything is
311030 - Miscellaneous, ref SDS 40 HE6N, per above. ref SDS 0 DU4Y
311032 -  ..
311033 - Jack commented previously on 011208 that SDS is not the only viable
311034 - approach.  He suspected other tools exist, but did not cite anything
311035 - that provides intelligence support for personal and organizational
311036 - integrated memory. ref SDS 28 RF78  On 011210 Doug Engelart wrote a
311037 - letter to Terry Winograd at Stanford noting SDS is a "unique"
311038 - solution. ref SDS 29 JL5I
311039 -
311040 -            [On 070913 Jack cites good ("elephant") memory of someone
311041 -            using SDS. ref SDS 44 9T4R
311043 -  ..
311044 - Who has another "viable approach" and to what:  Knowledge Management,
311045 - Communication Metrics, Intelligence support, organizational memory,
311046 - integrating personal and organizational memory, context management?
311047 - The problem of using explicit links is finding sources, capturing a
311048 - greater share of daily working information, so that sources can be
311049 - linked, and efficient usability so that links are fast and easy to
311050 - construct.
311052 -  ..
311053 - On 010915 Eric Armstrong cited SDS for methods that obviously work to
311054 - find information when needed. ref SDS 23 0001  On 010916 Eric
311055 - complained there are no other viable approaches. ref SDS 24 KA6H  On
311056 - 011003 Eric for recommendations on other viable approaches.
311057 - ref SDS 26 EC5N  Jack Park reported years of research yielded no
311058 - clues. ref SDS 26 O74L
311060 -  ..
311061 - Demize of collaboration web sites with failure to use explicit links
311062 - verifying accuracy and expanding span of attention suggests experts
311063 - were unable to find another approach that solves the problem of
311064 - finding information to link, reviewed on 070831. ref SDS 43 1J8H  Gary
311065 - notes again today loss of activity on collaboration projects.
311066 - ref SDS 0 DV5R
311067 -
311068 -
311070 -  ..
311071 - Hard Work Managing Organic Structure of Context
311072 - Knowledge Management Hard Work Manage Organic Structure Context
311073 - Context Management Hard Work Manage Organic Structure Knowledge
311074 -
311075 -
311076 - Gary's letter to Jack continues...
311077 -
311078 -    6.  Every indexing method has its problems.  Many of them relate to
311079 -        the simple fact that not everyone indexes in the same way, so
311080 -        that an index that works really well for me may not work well
311081 -        for others, and vice versa.  This is the reason that
311082 -        taxonomies, ontologies, or just controlled vocabularies are of
311083 -        value to the extent that they are actually shared by the people
311084 -        attempting to access the knowledge indexed by them. ref DRT 1
311085 -        848I
311087 -  ..
311088 - Indexing has the same problems people have communicating.  Everyone in
311089 - the meeting hears and sees the same thing, but derives from
311090 - association with experience, and everyone has a unique experience.
311091 -
311092 -
311094 -  ..
311095 - Controllable Vocabulary Tagging Hierarchy Evolving Taxonomy
311096 -
311097 -
311098 - Gary's letter to Jack continues...
311099 -
311100 -    7.  I am currently involved in attempting to align a set of
311101 -        requirements with an architecture and derive a usable hierarchy
311102 -        of capabilities / concepts to describe them.  I want something
311103 -        that is general enough to apply to the system as its
311104 -        requirements evolve over time and implementation iterations.
311105 -        It isn't simple, and is made more difficult than it should be
311106 -        through lack of support tools.  What I want for this task is a
311107 -        combination of an evolvable controlled vocabulary, tagging
311108 -        using a hierarchy of phrases (placement within an evolving
311109 -        taxonomy), and key - value pair indexing.  While the project is
311110 -        large the set of facts to be organized is relatively small, and
311111 -        they can, in principle, be reformulated as needed to help with
311112 -        the task. ref DRT 1 Q49H
311114 -  ..
311115 - Not sure if Gary is describing an SDS-like capabiity, or just the
311116 - Subject Index, and whether this applies to his work at Boeing, as a
311117 - "large project," or that the effort to develop SDS-like capability is
311118 - a large undertaking?
311119 -
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3203 -
320401 -  ..
320402 - Testbed Pilot Test Technology Advance Information Culture of Knowledge
320403 -
320404 - Follow up
320405 -
320406 -    8.  As I look at the issues involved, it seems to me that we lack a
320407 -        suitable testbed for experimenting with notions and evolving
320408 -        tools which support the augmentation of human ability.
320409 -        Developing software is time consuming under the best of
320410 -        circumstances.  Getting enough people to use any tool on a
320411 -        scale sufficient to get good feedback for improvement and
320412 -        knowing what aspects to strengthen is even more difficult.  As
320413 -        a result, we get lots of really good efforts that hit dead ends
320414 -        because they never get to critical mass. ref DRT 1 754K
320416 -  ..
320417 - On 001122 Eric Armstrong noted requirements for a software "platform"
320418 - to build Knowledge Management capabilities are difficult to
320419 - accomplish. ref SDS 19 E47M  Review on 000824 shows SDS provides a
320420 - testbed platform that continues to evolve effective tools, ref SDS 16
320421 - 0001, toward notions of Knowledge Management, Communication Metrics,
320422 - and intelligence support, as shown in NWO. ref OF 11 A56M
320423 -
320424 -            [On 080206 Morris demonstrated code for SDS application
320425 -            developed with Ruby on Rails part of Java; he enjoys
320426 -            working with this system and likes fast and easy flexiblity
320427 -            to experiment. ref SDS 49 RR36
320429 -  ..
320430 - Morris noted on 010924 that SDS has been an effective testbed using
320431 - feedback from experience to refine tool productivity. ref SDS 25 NK4J
320432 - Review at that time identified several reasons why tools for Knowledge
320433 - Management have not been more widely developed, ref SDS 25 JS6G, and
320434 - cites, as Gary does today, that many features need to be included and
320435 - integrated smoothly together, ref SDS 25 L46F, also explained in
320436 - POIMS. ref OF 4 8559
320437 -
320438 -            [On 080124 Morris asks why others have not developed tools
320439 -            for Knowledge Management anything like SDS. ref SDS 48 EM9F
320441 -             ..
320442 -            [On 080124 complexity of design and market dynamics explain
320443 -            why SDS is a unique design. ref SDS 48 M64O
320445 -  ..
320446 - Gary's idea today that feedback from more users aids improvement is
320447 - illustrated in the record on 021027. ref SDS 32 0001  Gary explained
320448 - in a letter on 010719 that scaling up feedback to 10, 100, 1000 people
320449 - might not yield better results, which depend on collaboration among
320450 - disparate personalities with complementary skills. ref SDS 21 S485
320452 -  ..
320453 - A "testbed" for "knowledge" tools requires a foundational concept with
320454 - potential to lift productivity of routine and related tasks; SDS
320455 - foundational documents describe the plan, perform, report intelligence
320456 - process in SDS that underlies management productivity. see POIMS,
320457 - ref OF 6 6649   NWO demonstrates this principle with comprehensive
320458 - scope for technology that supports human intelligence that enables a
320459 - new way of working. ref OF 11 A56M
320461 -               ..
320462 -              [On 070914 letter to Gary and others explains Knowledge
320463 -              Mangement development requires starting with a
320464 -              foundational concept that has "legs," that can support a
320465 -              wide range of mental processes. ref SDS 45 RH3U
320467 -  ..
320468 - Feedback from daily experience using technology can drive improvement,
320469 - as Gary notes, ref SDS 0 DV4R, provided work for customers can be
320470 - interruptted in order to invest time making changes to experiment and
320471 - test hunches about what will actually improve productivity.  Big
320472 - organizations generally do not innovate because getting approval is
320473 - problematic, explained on 040203, ref SDS 33 E44K  Byte magazine
320474 - published an article reviewed on 910418 showing bureaucracy stifles
320475 - innovation; extensive evidence supports conclusions in the Byte
320476 - article, ref SDS 3 MW8N, including Gary's report on 011106.
320477 - ref SDS 27 MO6F
320479 -  ..
320480 - Market dynamics present a dilemma of diligence relating to time and
320481 - budgets, noted by Clay Christensen, reviewed on 990527. ref SDS 10
320482 - KS4O  Making a living requires doing work that satisfies customer
320483 - needs.  Payment from customer creates budgets, and competition reduces
320484 - cash flow, creating pressures to cut costs.  This leaves no time nor
320485 - budget for improvements.  Pausing work for customers in order to make
320486 - improvements to tools eliminates revenues to pay for improvements,
320487 - unless there is a division of labor between tool production and tool
320488 - use.  In that case, however, people who are not using the tools don't
320489 - have experience to understand problems well enough to fashion
320490 - solutions that improve productivity, and often don't care, since they
320491 - are not using the tools.
320493 -  ..
320494 - Thus, being willing and able to allocate time and expense for changing
320495 - tools without getting permission from anyone is essential for
320496 - experimenting to discover useful improvement.  Getting help from
320497 - people who don't care nor understand how what they are doing may wind
320498 - up improving productivity is a rare enabling force of improvement,
320499 - reported on 000723. ref SDS 14 JP4J
320501 -  ..
320502 - In 1962, Doug Engelbart proposed solving the innovation loop that
320503 - resists improvement by assigning software engineers to apply personal
320504 - experience on improving their own tools, reviewed on 991222.
320505 - ref SDS 11 KL6N  Analysis at that time shows why this has proven more
320506 - difficult than expected. ref SDS 11 MF4N
320508 -  ..
320509 - Requirements for a "critical mass" of tools are set out in POIMS,
320510 - ref OF 5 2688, including efficient usability for synergy from smooth
320511 - integration of complementary functions balancing left and right brain
320512 - support, also, noted in POIMS. ref OF 4 8559
320513 -
320514 -
320515 -
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SUBJECTS
Blue Oxen Collaboration Internet Web Site  Gve Up No Evidence Activi

6003 -
600401 -  ..
600402 - Hyperscope Completed SRI Implements Doug Engelbart's Goals
600403 - Blue Oxen Eugene Kim Knowledge Management Collabortion No Activity
600404 -
600405 - Follow up ref SDS 43 1J8H.
600406 -
600407 -    9.  I had real hopes for the Blue Oxen effort, but I can't find any
600408 -        evidence of activity there any longer.  They did succeed in
600409 -        implementing a hyperscope that allows Augment-style navigation
600410 -        of an OPML outline.  Again, a powerful tool without a base of
600411 -        users large enough to help evolve it.  They have tools to
600412 -        transfer Augment documents into this format.  The tool is in
600413 -        Javascript and is browser based, so there exists the
600414 -        possibility of an Augment-style repository with distributed
600415 -        access, but I don't see it being used. ref DRT 1 B55K
600417 -  ..
600418 - "Hyperscope" was explained in Doug's Launch Plan for the OHS/DKR
600419 - project at SRI reviewed on 001025. ref SDS 17 A5U6
600421 -  ..
600422 - Several websites report progress on Hyperscope with funding from
600423 - NSI...
600424 -
600425 -        Read Write Web
600426 -        Douglas Engelbart's HyperScope 1.0 Launched
600427 -
600428 -              http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/douglas_engelbart_hyperscope.php
600430 -         ..
600431 -        HyperScope is described as "a high-performance thought
600432 -        processor that enables you to navigate, view, and link to
600433 -        documents in sophisticated ways." This is seen as the first
600434 -        (renewed) step towards Doug Engelbart's larger vision for an
600435 -        Open Hyperdocument System - only this time round it'll be based
600436 -        on Web technologies.
600438 -  ..
600439 - The "Read Write" website does not explain how hyperscope is being used
600440 - for daily work, nor provide examples of work product.
600442 -  ..
600443 - Blue Oxen, also, cited in Gary's letter today, has a web site on the
600444 - Internet sponsored by Eugene Kim...
600445 -
600446 -              http://www.blueoxen.com/boa/team.html
600448 -  ..
600449 - Eugene supported Doug's OHS/DKR project at SRI during 2000.  After
600450 - working and doing research for 6 months, Eugene notified the team
600451 - during a meeting at SRI that there wasn't enough knolwedge to develop
600452 - Knowledge Management for the OHS/DKR project, reported on 000615 1600.
600453 - ref SDS 13 6271  A few months later, Eugene recommended that the team
600454 - use information tools for email to learn more about knowledge
600455 - management rather than use SDS, reported on 001126 2149. ref SDS 20
600456 - QW8I
600458 -  ..
600459 - Gary reported on 070831 that explicit links using purple number
600460 - technology on the Blue Oxen web site was never applied. ref SDS 43
600461 - 1J8H
600463 -  ..
600464 - Case study on 070126 shows people giving up on Knowledge Management,
600465 - ref SDS 38 QH8L, including links in routine correspondence for
600466 - precision access, ref SDS 38 YV4F, because the tools do not provide
600467 - appreciable advance to improve information management using email.
600468 -
600469 -
600470 -
600471 -
600472 -
6005 -

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6103 -
610401 -  ..
610402 - Tools Augment Intelligence with Better Memory Readily Noticed
610403 - Willfully Blind Attribute Better Performance to Innate Capacity
610404 - Denial Better Performance from Better Tools Avoids Learning New Skills
610405 - Learning Cognitive Overhead Avoided Assume Better Memory Innate
610406 -
610407 -
610408 - Gary's letter to Jack continues...
610409 -
610410 -   10.  It seems that the best that we can hope for is to amass a set
610411 -        of techniques from the various experiments and perhaps evolve
610412 -        personal tool sets that allow us to experiment further.  It
610413 -        isn't very difficult to assemble a preliminary list of features
610414 -        found to be useful, but integrating them into a single tool and
610415 -        then getting sufficient mind share to make a difference becomes
610416 -        the issue. ref DRT 1 O56K
610418 -  ..
610419 - Not sure about the reference to "mind share."  May be a reference to
610420 - "social networks," along the lines of the "network centric"
610421 - organization, reviewed on 060317. ref SDS 37 P357
610423 -  ..
610424 - People seem to readily notice that better tools "make a difference,"
610425 - per above. ref SDS 0 4Q5K  Desire to avoid cognitive overhead
610426 - investing time for changing tools to learn a new way of working that
610427 - takes more than 20 minutes, people fall into denial that tools make
610428 - the difference by attributing good memory to personal traits.
610429 - Willfully blind avoids change and sustains reliance on existing
610430 - skills, illustrated by story of Tesla and Edison, see NWO. ref OF 15
610431 - RE5F  This seemed evident in discussion on 001126 when Grant Bowman
610432 - asked the OHS/DKR team if people had to learn new skills in order to
610433 - get evident benefits of SDS. ref SDS 20 W18L
610435 -             ..
610436 -            [On 070913 Jack cites good ("elephant") memory of someone
610437 -            using SDS. ref SDS 44 9T4R
610439 -             ..
610440 -            [On 071113 Jack feels Iris is similar to SDS. ref SDS 46
610441 -            4U94
610443 -             ..
610444 -            [On 071222 Morris Jones requests list of essential
610445 -            features. ref SDS 47 3V35
610447 -             ..
610448 -            [On 071222 Gary submits list of essential features for SDS
610449 -            to Morris. ref SDS 47 LX8M
610450 -
610451 -
610452 -
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6203 -
620401 -  ..
620402 - Paradigm Shift Knowledge Management Change Synergy Diligence to Fun
620403 - Architecture Intelligence Knowledge Cognition Hidden Plain Sight
620404 - Knowledge Management Hidden Plain Sight 2-tier Design Cognition
620405 - Hidden Plain Sight Solution Requires Integrating Critical Mass
620406 -
620407 - Follow up ref SDS 43 1J9U.
620408 -
620409 - Gary's letter to Jack continues...
620410 -
620411 -   11.  Part of the problem is that not very many people are interested
620412 -        in the problem in the abstract, and even fewer are connected to
620413 -        a single effort.  For any mass adoption, the tools need to
620414 -        deliver a lot more perceived benefit for a lot less perceived
620415 -        effort than is currently the case.  Adding effort today to help
620416 -        find things tomorrow, when you have no idea whether what you
620417 -        are saving will be of any interest is not something that is
620418 -        easy to sell.  Most people can't see the point.  It takes a
620419 -        great deal of desire, or faith, or orders to get people  to
620420 -        take the steps needed to add information that aids future
620421 -        retrieval. ref DRT 1 Y63I
620423 -  ..
620424 - Emotional fatigue working on Knowledge Management to improve
620425 - collaboration with no discernable progress leads to loss of activity,
620426 - reported by Gary today, per above. ref SDS 0 DV5R
620428 -  ..
620429 - Progress requires faith from experience that drives a paradigm shift.
620430 - Faith transforms negative synergy from the paradigm of "diligence"
620431 - doing hard work, into positive synergy having fun using the computer
620432 - like playing a piano to work intelligently.  Efficient usability
620433 - executes commands with rythm, harmony, and complementarity that
620434 - magnifies productivity with less diligence to get things done.  The
620435 - shift from the drudge of diligence to the paradigm of having fun
620436 - working intelligently requires faith in the power of knowledge derived
620437 - from experience through relentless pressure.
620439 -         ..
620440 -        [On 080104 Morris reported feeling SDS work product exists
620441 -        because Rod is more diligent; overlooks requirement to change
620442 -        negative to positive synergy SDS efficient usability makes
620443 -        working intelligently more fun. ref SDS 48 EM9F
620445 -  ..
620446 - The problem to solve is "hidden in plain site," noted earlier by Gary,
620447 - and explained in POIMS citing the 2-tier design of human cognition.
620448 - ref OF 4 8774  With most work done subconsciously, and results being
620449 - applied conscously, mirrowing the challenge of POIMS to integrate
620450 - personal and organizational memory, people have a hard time grasping
620451 - the mechanics of intelligence in order to design tools that augment
620452 - the process.
620454 -  ..
620455 - On 070831, Gary cited benefits of technology reducing the time for
620456 - context management so less diligence is required to organize the
620457 - record.  Slow tools tend to degrade context management.  Soon people
620458 - are filing everything under miscellaneous, which makes finding sources
620459 - to link very slow.  Increasing the time for constructing links causes
620460 - use of granular addressability to decline, and people rely on
620461 - assumptions, rather than check the record.  Negative synergy reduces
620462 - productivty when tools are too slow, and a corresponding rising use of
620463 - links occurs when context management is fast and easy. ref SDS 43 1J4I
620464 -
620465 -
620466 -
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6303 -
630401 -  ..
630402 - Document Classification Not Very Useful Not Widely Used
630403 - Metadata Tagging for Context Management Not Widely Used
630404 - Tagging Documents Metadata Context Management Hard Work Not Used
630405 -
630406 -
630407 - Gary's letter to Jack continues...
630408 -
630409 -   12.  Tagging is an attempt to distribute the effort, and it seems to
630410 -        have met with some degree of success.  With thousands of people
630411 -        each doing a little bit and using some statistical help, we get
630412 -        a reasonable set of tags.  As we know, tags are not as powerful
630413 -        as we would like.  Most of the metadata forms that I know of
630414 -        use some form of keyword - value pair (the old AI frames).
630415 -        Perhaps a similar framework to assist tagging would help.
630416 -        ref DRT 1 6E4J
630418 -         ..
630419 -   13.  Most of the tag systems seem to be to documents.  Since there
630420 -        is no text to provide context other than the tagset itself,
630421 -        tagging at the paragraph level is problematic. ref DRT 1 HE5I
630422 -
630423 -
630425 -  ..
630426 - Evolutionary Technology No Direction Focus Progress
630427 - Knowledge Management Software Development No Focus No Progress
630428 - Software Development Discover New Way Working Fragmented No Progress
630429 -
630430 -
630431 -   14.  I have far more questions than answers, but it is clear that
630432 -        the combination of a small group that is interested at all,
630433 -        with the difficulty of producing experimental software, the
630434 -        fragmentation of even that small group, and no persistent
630435 -        evolutionary direction, most of what motion there is occurs in
630436 -        all directions, and the result doesn't look much like progress.
630437 -        ref DRT 1 XE5N
630439 -  ..
630440 - On 010719 Gary reported difficulty innovating in large organizations.
630441 - ref SDS 21 LR73  On 011006 Gary described improving management in a
630442 - big organization is a hopeless task. ref SDS 27 EL5F
630444 -  ..
630445 - Evolving technology for a new way of working requires ability to use
630446 - the tools that test a new way of working in order to discover and
630447 - optimize solutions, per Gary's point above, ref SDS 0 DV4R, against
630448 - cultural inertia that drives conformity, often attributed to
630449 - bureaucracy, reviewed on 040203, ref SDS 33 E44K, and commonly called
630450 - the "tyranny of the status quo," reviewed on 950911. ref SDS 4 0581
630451 - Article in Byte magazine reported on 910418 notes that innovation is
630452 - stifled in big organizations. ref SDS 3 6368  Factors that stifle
630453 - innovation in bureaucracy were described in "The Innovator's Dilemma,"
630454 - reviewed on 990527. ref SDS 10 4077
630456 -  ..
630457 - How is the effort sustained long enough to encounter and resolve
630458 - issues when market place dynamics demand immediate results with
630459 - existing using familiar tools in familiar ways.
630461 -  ..
630462 - There must be enough work to apply tools consistently in real life,
630463 - meaningful conditions that demonstrate added value, yet enable pausing
630464 - to cycle experience into improved design and product performance.
630465 -
630466 -            [On 070914 letter explains factors required to advance from
630467 -            information to a culture of knowledge. ref SDS 45 RH3U
630469 -             ..
630470 -            [On 071113 Jack reports too busy to contribute to
630471 -            developing Knowledge Management, but can submit occassional
630472 -            comments. ref SDS 46 QV9O
630473 -
630475 -  ..
630476 - SDS Useful Tools Path Contribute Refine Knowledge Management
630477 -
630478 -
630479 - Gary's letter to Jack continues...
630480 -
630481 -   15.  At the moment, I am working with Rod and with SDS because it
630482 -        gave me a tool that I could use and a way I could contribute.
630483 -        I would welcome pointers to other efforts where there is an
630484 -        existing tool that stands a chance of being evolved further
630485 -        where I might be able to contribute.  So far, all the ones I
630486 -        have found have gone away for various reasons, so I work with
630487 -        SDS, trying to improve it in any way I can.  Since Rod is
630488 -        accommodating of some of my ideas, he has mad some major
630489 -        improvements along lines I suggested and he and I refined.
630490 -        ref DRT 1 VE6L
630492 -         ..
630493 -   16.  I am less of an evangelist for SDS than I am an evangelist for
630494 -        addressing the problems that SDS addresses, and doing so in a
630495 -        way that will provide me with tools that evolve and improve.  I
630496 -        wish that I had the time, energy, and expertise to do this on
630497 -        my own, but that would just make me another developer creation
630498 -        another fragment in the universe of uncoordinated pieces that,
630499 -        collectively, don't yield useful tools. ref DRT 1 RF7L
630501 -  ..
630502 - SDS provides platform with a 3-layer architecture to advance from
630503 - information toward a culture of knowledge that enables a broad range
630504 - of intelligence support, shown in NWO. ref OF 11 A56M
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