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For centuries the book and the lecture have fragmented our knowledge and confined it to the bookshelf and the classroom. New media technology now allows for a radical change in the way knowledge is created and shared. At the same time, the global conditions are calling for such change. Knowledge federation envisions networks joining humans, digitized resources, data sources and technical tools, within which knowledge is continually tended by all and harvested by all.

Federated communication promises to facilitate improvements or breakthroughs in a number areas including:

• Understanding and handling the so-called 'wicked problems' such as the climate change, where a number of points of view and sources of expertise must be combined.
• Handling time-critical tasks where information from diverse sources must be made available.
• Education, where the learning resources can be 'gardened' globally by the people who have knowledge and used by those who need it.
• Scientific production and communication, where largest benefits may be reached by combining knowledge from different sources.

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Our purpose is to foster the development of an international research community in knowledge federation. In addition to evolving theories, standards, tools and federation practices, we have undertaken to bootstrap knowledge federation by being the first academic community that will federate its knowledge.

The purpose of this wiki is to serve as a sand box where we will develop our ideas and our ways of working together. To participate, please register by using the login button in the upper right corner, then send email to dino.karabeg @ifi.uio.no to be given the editor rights.

We use the Knowledge Federation Google group for online dialogs.

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The Knowledge Federation community was initiated in October 2007 on the Topic Maps Research and Applications Conference, as a melting pot of ideas from several research areas.

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An interesting challenge before us is to federate our own resources and ideas.

To that end, the Knowledge Federation 2008 Conference envisioned three workshops:

• Knowledge Federation for Wicked Problems
• Federated Learning
• Federating Research.

We invite the conference participants and other community members to continue contributing materials to these workshops. To contribute, please follow a workshop link (see above) and then create an entry under your name. Please note that you need to be registered as an editor to edit this wiki.

This space is reserved for the community members to develop jointly authored documents.

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