Personal Knowledge Management

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Personal Knowledge Management

• Lets increase our blog use
• PKM Discussion
• Research Paper drafts due next week

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Blogging

• Everyone should be using the blog more
• Class participation grade
• General sharing of ideas resources
• External memory or reminder for sources later
• Using a feed reader is key (it seems)
• Keep ideas/posts in a text file, then log on
  upload
• Features on the blog
• Learn how WordPress works - read the docs
• Suggest any changes to our configuration, topics
  or interface

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What do you use for PKM?

• Not just information management, but knowledge
  management
• Digital Files, but with annotations
• Paper Documents, but with handwritten notes
• Journal entries, class notes, ideas, lists
• Adding your thoughts ideas to external
  information sources
• Metadata about notes (when, who, why)
• Something, someplace, some object(s) that you
  refer back to, rely on for reference, use to pick
  up old work again or to remind yourself of ideas?
• Do you add value to your information?
• How does the Web or any IT system(s) you use fit
  into a PKM process?

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As We May Think

• Set of ideas based on research areas at that
  time
• The value of sharing information (science)
• Stored, extended, consulted
• Peer review (by inclusion commentary)
• How far thinking was it?
• What technologies we have now are in the memex?
• Dynamic access is proposed (over sequential)
• Indexing aliasing
• Less time formatting distributing, more time
  learning sharing
• Information use becomes (more about) multitasking
• Its about Associations
• Joining items, trails, comments for personal
  context, full notes

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Whats missing in Memex?

• Collaboration
• Updating dynamic information (links)
• Encyclopedias, Patents are acknowledged, but no
  mechanism is designed out
• Speed is relative
• In learning, annotating retrieval
• Personal interfaces
• Eyes ears, but not mechanisms
• Is this how knowledge workers work now?
• Complex civilization
• Records

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My Life Bits

• Updating Memex
• Aggregated collections
• Searching functionality
• Query by Story, Story by Query?
• Drag and drop more like this?
• Advanced visualization?
• Too much of a good thing?
• Understanding viz info at once?
• My annotations, your annotations, our annotations

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PIKII

• Web-enabled, knowledge manager
• Uses standard formats and protocols
• Builds on hypertext theory
• Works with new internet-based info formats
• RSS, XML, XML-RPC, URIs, Trackbacks
• Can weblogs be adapted for other functions such
  as PIM and PKM?
• How can you share with levels of security
  privacy?
• Local (personal) Global (organizational)
• Creation, retrieval sharing all in the same
  interface

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PIKII Hypertext

• Nodes
• Encapsulated units of content in any MIME type
  format identifiable by W3C compliant protocols
  and data structures.
• Transclusion
• XML RSS based syndication distributes content
  anywhere
• Link types
• Static dynamic URIs for tracking addressing
  comments posts news with time/date stamps
  associative properties identifiable using info
  retrieval methods.
• Backlinks
• Trackback HTTP-referrer linking provides
  bi-directional links.
• Annotation
• A core attribute of many blog posts the
  syndication format is a link, often directly
  connectable to a parent node.

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Is PIKII already here?

• All operating systems since 2001 include Web
  servers
• Broadband keeps up connection (almost)
  continuously
• Blogs, Wikis, Semantic Web tools Web 2.0
• Desktop search Web search
• Personalized interfaces
• Portals (but no annotations)
• Group, collaborative tools vs. Personal tools
• Open formats, open extensions, strong networked
  infrastructure (URIs), MIME types

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PIKII Pickiness

• Does the average knowledge worker become a Web
  developer?
• Is is better to have a networked, distributed
  system with personalization than your own server?
• Are your works individual enough to be shared?
• What would you NOT want to share with others?
• Is doing everything in the same interface a good
  design?
• Reading vs. Participating?
• Tagging vs. Annotating?

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Stuff Ive Seen

• Is there a difference between local and global
  information (storage access)?
• All in one interface or distributed per
  application or function?
• One, big index or many smaller ones?
• What are the best contextual cues?
• Link colors
• History views
• Piles and timelines?

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Finding files extending history

• What if everything was tracked with history?
• How would navigation change among information
  documents?
• How would recalls and reminding work?

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Other systems, other devices?

• Haystack
• Dashboard
• Mobile devices
• MS digital camera recordings
• PDAphones
• Wearable computing

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How do knowledge workers work?

• On the Web?
• Too big to keep in memory
• Tools, tasks conventions are used to help
• Too much of a good thing?
• Never stop researching (re)finding
• Everything or just a few things?

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KM Activities

• Finding
• Information gathering
• Browsing
• Transacting
• Communicating
• Housekeeping
• You most or least?
• Web only? Mostly on the Web?

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KM Web Activities spectrum

• How did you initiate this activity?
• Was it a work or non-work activity?
• Was there a goal? (If yes, did you achieve it?)
• Was there a specific question (and if so what was
  it)?
• Was the activity initiated, executed and
  completed in one sitting, or was it spread out
  over time?
• Was this a routine activity or unique event?
• Was there any collaborative aspect to the
  activity?
• Was anything printed out?
• What were the good or bad aspects of the way the
  Web supported this activity?

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Using Web browsers for PKM

• Bookmarks, history, link colors, toolbars
• Browser add ons
• Firefox extensions
• Toolbars
• RSS readers
• How can a browser support these tasks?
• Should it?
• It could be better
• Manage old, duplicate and updated links
• Show pages in context ( support annotations)

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Kaasten Greenbergs system

• See the page thumbnail
• Filters
• Sliders for features
• Marking (dog ears)
• Color
• Domain - grouping

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Research Paper

• A scholarly work, approximately 17 pages in
  length (no more than 20, including bibliography),
  that could be suitable for publication.
• Papers might discuss
• Historical review of the topic, including
  origin, inspirations and intentions
• Evolution of a KMS topic (a system, a phenomenon,
  a setting) and its application to Knowledge
  Management
• Review of current state of the art for this topic
  and its relation to KMS (in relation to our
  course readings)

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Research Paper Content

• Impact of the KMS technology in use and possible
  changes in
• knowledge work
• organizational architecture
• management
• collaboration
• communication
• trust
• privacy
• reputation
• Future of the KMS technology including lifecycle,
  new developments and integration with other
  technologies
• Adoption
• Use