> OLDaily November 28, 2003
> by Stephen Downes
>
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> Personal Knowledge Mapping And The Concept Of Data
> Emergence
>
> ..."Content providers should not be
> trying to guess how I want to interact with their
> information. They should just be providing the information.
> I will customize my experience as I see fit."
>
Makes no sense whatever, to me. (01)
"Knowledge" cannot be abstracted from the notion of "sequence".
A series of data points only becomes "knowledge" when they
are grouped, categorized, and, for any complex system, sequenced
in presentation so as to *communicate* the knowledge. (02)
An unnconnected collection of data feeds in which I make all
the connections is a lot like looking at the catalog of classes
in a system -- without a class hierarchy, and with no interaction
diagrams. It's a lot like reading source code, actually -- the
mystery of how things connect is only discovered after an
arduous period of search and discovery. (03)
A "content" provider that isn't providing *some* kind of
organized view of the data has no value add. Certainly,
there many ways to view the same things -- so the idea of
creating and sharing alternative views makes a lot of sense. (04)
But the idea of publishing the information in the first place
without using such a tool (presuming it exists) to create at
least one organizational framework makes absolutely zero sense. (05)
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