Whats Up with knowledge

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Whats Up with knowledge?

• David Weinberger
• Harvard Berkman CenterMarch, 2006
• atThe IA Summit

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• Weve organized ideas using the same principles
  for organizing things.
• The digitizing of information enables us to
  invent new principles
• The new principles affect knowledges structure
  and authority

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Intentionally Left Blank Level Jacking A Rung Too
Far The Failure of the Explicit Seeing Too
Clearly Compulsive Clarity Splits, Lumps and
Signs Out of Sorts Ambient Fungability Reconnected
Knowledge The Space between Words If a Tree
Falls A leaf on many branches Messiness as a
virtue
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Something is going on with knowledge
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Data
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Information
Data
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Knowledge
Information
Data
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Wisdom
Knowledge
Information
Data
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Wisdom
Knowledge
Information
Data
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Data
Information
Wisdom
Knowledge
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Data
Information
Wisdom
Knowledge
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Facts??
Experience??
Wisdom??
ResemblanceContiguityCause
Reason
Impressions
Data
Information
Wisdom
Knowledge
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• in form a tion al iz a tion

(n) 1. The reduction of all experience,
knowledge, feelings and awareness to information.
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Seven Properties of Knowledge
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Same for everyone
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One knowledge
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Simple
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Most things arent knowledge
mcmrbt_at_flickr
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Doesn't matter who says it
Some apples are red
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Bigger than we are
We've believed "there exists a realm of
knowledge that grows through individual
contributions and is transmitted from generation
to generation such that its existence is thought
to be continuous and is capable of being
examined."
Francis Miksa U. of Texas, Austin
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Bigger than we are
We've believed "there exists a realm of
knowledge that grows through individual
contributions and is transmitted from generation
to generation such that its existence is thought
to be continuous and is capable of being
examined."
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Living things
Orderly
Plants
Animals
Invertebrates
Vertebrates
Reptiles
Birds
Mammals
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Same for all
One
Independent of knower
Outlasts us
Orderly
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Knowledge Under Siege
Birds
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Digitizing everything
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First Order
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Second Order
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Third order

• What can you do easily digitally that the real
  world makes really hard?

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1. Leaf on many branches
PhotographicEquipment
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2. Messiness as a virtue
OnlineReview
Maria'sWeblog
Casio'sWeblog
Jane'sWeblog
ElectronicsDiscussion
Design Mailing List
PhotoProfs
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3. Unowned order
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Users are contributors
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Include
Post-Filter
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Knowledges Properties
One and the same
Simple
Impersonal
Bigger than we are
Filtered
Orderly
Has a know-er
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Knowledges Properties
One and the same
Simple
Impersonal
Bigger than we are
Filtered
Orderly
Has a know-er
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Knowledges Properties
One and the same
Simple
Impersonal
Bigger than we are
Filtered
Orderly
Has a know-er
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Knowledges Properties
One and the same
Simple
Impersonal
Bigger than we are
Filtered
Orderly
Has a know-er
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Point 1Authority
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Why do we care about authority?
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Beyond utility

• Social standing
• Institutional power
• Control conversations
• Personal virtue
• Fulfillment of species destiny

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How it works
liability
Re
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Wiki glory
Pseudonymous
local fame
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Publicly Negotiated Knowledge
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Here are the facts we agree on
Heres the knowledge we agree on
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Separate knowledges? Baseline from which
controversy emerges? Re-calcification? Knowledge
alliances? Fragmentation or reflection?
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Point 2The new infrastructure
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Abelardo Morell
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Intelligibility
Meaning
Context
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Meaning
Unspoken
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Externalization
http//flickr.com/photos/gaspi/7971252/
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Externalization
of
Meaning
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Labels vs. Tags
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• The inability of folksonomies "to handle
  equivalence, hierarchy, and other semantic
  relationships cause them to fail miserably at any
  significant scale."

Peter Findable Ambient Morvillability
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Good enough
Cool Local Refreshing
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Thank you.

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