Aspects of Knowledge Federation
From Knowledge Federation
Dino:
Knowledge federation is, in my view, a new way of creating and sharing of knowledge. To see what this means, think about text or book writing and publishing, that has been the dominant form of mediated communication since the beginning of civilization. Paradoxically, as the number of books on a subjects increases, it becomes more difficult to form a qualified opinion. Internet technology now allows for completely new ways of creating and sharing of knowledge. And the our environmental and cultural conditions call for such new ways. Wikipedia is an example - a Wikipedia entry is edited by everyone, and the result is an approximation of the current state of our common understanding of a subject. But Wikipedia is only a first approximation of a solution, with obvious disadvantages.
Jack:
When, in the course of human affairs, it becomes necessary to solve wicked problems in a collaborative way, it is frequently valuable to have unbiased and uniform access to the views of others during deliberation processes. Knowledge federation provides the opportunity to create and maintain such views.
Hendrik:
Today knowledge media resources are exponential growing and are omnipresent BUT the critical world problems, e.g. global warming, are still not solved or even understand. Why - because knowledge creation and management is limited to individual perspectives rather than on a holistic understanding. Bridging of domain boarders in order to discover new ideas is still not supported AND we are still fighting with heterogeneous tools, format and source - lacking of a subject centric access points. An on top of this trust in knowledge is more and more lost, because information on who, why and in which context it can be reused in missing. The knowledge federation community has understand these obstacles and tries to providing a vision, encouraging ethical responsibility and powerful tool set to enable a the society a revolutionary new way to create, find and REUSE knowledge resource for a greater good.
Alex:
KF enables k workers to express what they want to say about what they are interested in, from their perspective, and collaboratively discover how this relates on a conceptual level to other viewpoints and works.
Roy:
KF is the science of developing information infrastructure for knowledge synthesis to support the common good.
Yuzuru:
KF R&D focuses on how to give each user a full capability of finding, extracting, combining, reorganizing, and sharing knowledge fragments over the Web, for his or her creative activities.
Bernd:
KF is THE way to share, use and reuse your knowledge with a global community. This gives you the opportunity to benefit from experiences from different cultures, and different aspects, to enhance your knowledge work in a global sensemaking way.
Simon:
The Knowledge Federation community is committed to building Web tools for groups tackling the big problems facing society. There's a basic assumption that you can't simplistically integrate the information and arguments that different disciplines bring -- knowledgeable people need to talk. So, our sociotechnical infrastructure is tuned at every level for sharing, debating and integrating perspectives.
