also check: KnowledgeBuilding

Developpers/Programmers Needed - and funds welcomed - by DanteGabryell

feel free to join the related project mailinglist : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/referencemaps/∞

RHIZOMIC RELATIONS BROWSER - WEB OF SEMANTIC REFERENCE VISUALISATION MAPS - sharing and connecting our involvment in building tools

I believe there is a need for some kind of reference , questions , idea , situations mapping tool - so we can more easily understand and visualise what to focus and build on / or simply develop new solutions through such community based maps

- Reference system for developping Perspective Maps to visualise Issues, References , easing (shared?) initiatives, self learning, ...

WHAT? HOW? + SEE COLLECTION OF LINKS BELOW AND ON http://del.icio.us/deliciousdante/ReferenceMaps∞ - FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME DANTE - dot - ECOBYTES - dot - NET

About the reference system

I imagine it being some kind of open source software - simple in design - lite weight - that would also be available trough a online platform.

a (downloadable?/open source/free) software/and-or online platform on wich one freely can brainstorm:

ideas - phrases - concepts - questions - words - and also links

each of such becoming an entity that can then be linked to other entities,

according to their nature - issue - question - idea - ressource - person - book - other reference

and to the relation between them

Such a process would have some main aspects

one influenced by the person brainstorming he's ideas, questions, and issues

ACTUALLY INTEGRATING IN A ANARCHIC WAY different elements of he's/her reality

and then, eventually, making a few relations afterwords as he sees them - but without obligation

SO THIS PERSON WOULD BE ABLE TO BUILD HES/HER OWN INDIVIDUAL MAP OF ISSUES , RESSOURCES , IDEAS , PEOPLE , ETC

and then - the magic is that individual maps can be gathered together

( they can be kept private online , or put into a network with other maps of people joining your own group / OR THEY CAN ALSO BE MADE PARTIALLY OR FULLY PUBLIC - such as with delicious links http://del.icio.us∞ )

wich could enable not only to develop maps that are individual, but to understand commonalities between maps , differences between maps ,

and WIDER MAPS integrating a few , hundreds, or thousands of maps , depending on choosen options

and MAKE IT EASIER TO FOCUS and understand issues , and have access to references - and build on ideas

EASING ALSO SELF LEARNING - and also , at the same time, academic learning -

easing freelance activism , project development, etc

trough such kind of global brain mapping - reference mapping - etc

trough the online platform - this might then further connect to social networks and solutions could be found to ease connections with ressources/people in geographic surroundings




Potentially usefull / Related links :

Existing Related Softwares:

DeepaMehta is a software platform for Knowledge Management∞

Eventually a(n idea of a) tool that could be applied to wiki's such as the http://www.wikipedia.org∞ :
http://www.communitywiki.org/cw?SemanticWiki∞

Mapping Arguments:

http://www.communitywiki.org/de/MappingArguments∞

Program for Large Network Analysis∞

A Java-based toolkit for building interactive information visualization applications.∞

Java - Visualisation - Examples∞

Big Picture - Flash Based∞

Wakka Wiki Mind Map Capability - note: wakka wiki is not in development anymore∞

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeMind∞

+ eventually integrate - for certain elements - option to "geographical locations" ?

Google Maps API∞

[[http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/whiteboarding/2006-June/000040.html∞ [whiteboarding] Bouillon 2 project - Victor Grishchenko]]
Henning Peters told me about it and describes it as: "The idea is to have a wiki with decentralized authorities, namely not everybody will get the same content, but if there is a conflict you'll get the content that is socially closer to you."

Projects & Blogs

chris macrae∞

Texts and Theories:

The Complexity & Artificial Life Research Concept for Self-Organizing Systems∞

Study of whole systems∞

About Connectivism∞

Connectivism: Learning as Network-Creation - IMPORTANT∞

Connectivism Blog - Wiki , ... ∞

Patterning problems: computer representation of problem networks + see below∞

Synergetics - The Geometry of Thinking∞

Introduction on Cybernetics and Stochastic Systems IMPORTANT∞

Intrinsic and Holarchic Education∞

Introduction to Communities of Practice∞

other organisations and projects:

Centre for Networked Learning∞

LINK TO PDF FILE - The project promotes co-evolution of individual, collective and organizational learning with technology through developing the Knowledge-practices Laboratory (KP-Lab) / total funding will be €11,2 M.∞

Association for Educational Communications and Technology∞

Acceleration Studies Foundation∞

Videos

Global Brain Video - Introduction∞

Audio

Connectivism and Web 2.0∞

Book references

Communities of networked expertise: Professional and educational perspectives. Amsterdam: Elsevier.∞

Chaos Journal - Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science

http://chaos.aip.org/∞

http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=CHAOEH&Volume=LASTVOL&Issue=LASTISS∞

More Related Links

http://del.icio.us/deliciousdante/Cybernetics∞

http://del.icio.us/deliciousdante/GlobalBrain∞

and what about other kind of connections to different maps?

... ISP Maps∞
not connected to described below? or eventually also dangerous?

http://dublincore.org/∞

Other ideas and Suggestions:

http://www.oikoumene.be/documentaryressources∞

Development of Nomadic University , in cooperation with hospitality networking platforms such as Couch Surfing

see:

http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=2483∞

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European LIbrary:

http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.html∞

http://www.lnb.lv/eng/projects/telmemor/about.htm∞




http://www.uia.org/problems/probcom_bodies.php?kap=22∞

4.5 Patterning problems: computer representation of problem networks

just wondering if you know of any new , simple techniques available , that could offer solutions in such mapping and representation without having to go trough some of the "hierarchy" and other challenges that seem to be explained in this text

by the way, maybe you know about it , its

http://www.uia.org/encyclopedia/volall.php∞





other brainstormings:

1

Tool:

example:

I see a paper on the floor.

I can pick it up , and put it in the garbage , but then realize there are many papers , and think to myself:
how to solve this?

Then I remember , there are the people that throw the papers on the floor , there are the industries producing the papers , there are the cleaning services , etc

So I think , how does the piece of paper I found on the floor relate to all this.

Do I picture the whole picture? Do I understand how the system works , can I influence this system?

Can I navigate through the relations? Can other people add elements and relations to have a broader and more in depth understanding of the situation?

How can change be brought by working on it collectively, while simply adding to the understanding of the situation , and acting by adding knowledge or information to the system , and THEIR RELATIONS ?

And how can such a system then understand that I am in xxx place , that I am talking about a piece on the floor of xxx , that xxx has municipal services ( that works openly , or corruptly , etc ) , that this or that garbage company is active in that area , that there are or are not specific programs at school to make people sensitive to a clean environment , etc




and how can I apply this to any idea , question , issue , person , place , etc ?


It does not need to be a complicated piece of software ( but offcourse, I lack experience and programming skills to really judge properly about this ) - we could brainstorm about it - it could also, for example, ease the development of our own projects




2

http://www.couchsurfing.com/group_read.html?gid=4251&post=113015∞

wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Visualization_of_Networks

oikoumene.coforum.net/wikka.php?wakka=ReferenceMaps

and other links to tools that could relate or be integrated:

del.icio.us/deliciousdante/ReferenceMaps


I often have the feeling that such an idea / issue / question / solutions / resources ( etc... ) visual relations builder

could be an effective tool.

It could also integrate options such as "clouds" , so that we could choose to see people that have expressed similar ideas , and how they relate with all the other ideas / issues / questions / resources expressed.

It could also be used for the following purposes:

- knowledge building and visualization ( that can be open to all , or closed to a specific group , or where several groups can add layers depending on the options integrated )

- understanding of relations , of influences , and tool to decide about priorities ( so in some way , a decision making helper )

- use the open data of relations between "objects" ( and define those relations and the nature of "objects" ) into alternative economic models

- tool for alternative shared constructivist learning

- ... ( and other uses people seem to have found and added to the wiki page:

wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Visualization_of_Networks )

I hope this tool can be developed in a experimental and open way , so that people can understand it while using it.

For the moment , it seems some of the people I talk to about it have difficulties conceptualizing what it could be. Maybe some of us can express it better? ( ps: great to see some of us added their ideas about how they understand and conceptualize it on the wiki page )

Greetings,

Dante

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Conference :

http://www.rhizome.org/fp.rhiz?id=3280∞

Interactivity/Information/Interfaces/Immersion (Frankfurt, Oct 24-26, 2007)
February 10th, 2007, 10:43 am
Via: Geert Lovink

I4: Interactivity / Information / Interfaces / Immersion
International Research Conference
J W Goethe University
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
Organized by the Research Network for Media Anthropology / FAME
Frankfurt
October 24-��26, 2007

The I4 International Conference addresses the emergence of complex collaboration and community software. We assume that all human sensory and mental capabilities and the ability to abstract, conceive and implement things are, and have been, involved in the development of human ability to use media.
The concept of media encompasses perception, abstraction, storage, rules for the retention of information � of texts and holytexts, the great sagas, manifestations of cultural memory � and progression beyond existing knowledge paradigms. It is impossible to determine how perception and interaction will impact on media, either qualitatively or quantitatively.
The conference will be devoted to questions surrounding digital environments and the technology-based generation of cultural patterns in four areas: Interactivity / Information / Interfaces / Immersion

We invite submissions which explore these issues and offer answers to
such questions as:

What connections can we currently identify between software development and cultural evolution? What significance can be attached to co-evolutionary processes in perception, abstraction, forms of virtualization, digital technologies and communication capabilities? What kinds of virtual spaces are developing? How are digital communication spaces influencing urbanization processes and the architecture of buildings? What significance does game software have in creating new social and cultural contexts? What kinds of cooperative and collaborative processes are developing? What are the defining properties of an explicit model of social constructs in a technology-based media environment? How are means of digital communication influencing children'��s and adults� living spaces and interior architecture? How can a transition from the idiocy of the masses and the knowledge of the crowd into a knowledge-generating virtual community be explained? Can we see signs of an emerging virtual civilization? How will network-integrated community building be important in the future? How are learning and the structure and legitimation of knowledge changing?
Please submit ideas for topics and papers (500 words max.) by March 31, 2007

Initiators and contacts:

Prof. Manfred Fa��ler
FAME � Frankfurt/ Research Network for Media Anthropology
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
J W. Goethe University
fasslermanfred@aol.com

Dr. Mark Mattingley-Scott
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
J W. Goethe University
scott@de.ibm.com

Originally by nettime-ann from Nettime-ann relay at February 9, 2007, 13:08, published by Pau Waelder

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