Chris Dent wrote:
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> In an ontology oriented wiki-thing, links would only exist
> because someone had decided to DEFINE A CONCEPT. I shout to
> indicate the specialness of the event. I think it would make
> people nervous and reluctant.
>
> So, where I'm headed is that while I think such a tool would be
> excellent for highly motivated people with a strong task in mind,
> it suffers from the same problem of so many good ideas: it might
> make demands on folk and we've shown many times that unless both
> the goals and tasks are strongly defined, people won't step up
> with structured and structuring tools.
>
> There does seem to be some evidence, though, that people will
> step up with tools that allow a bit more play (like a "normal"
> wiki). (01)
Chris, (02)
If people were to encounter an ontology that already had a
"concept" for each wiki page, they'd realize that if they
were comfortable creating a wiki page, creating a concept
in a wiki-oriented ontology would be no different. Now, if
one were to sell them the Big Word "ontology" they might,
as you say, be a bit reluctant. Given that "ontology" is
currently one of the big, mis- and over-used buzzwords, it
might be better to just avoid the term entirely and just
get on with business... (03)
If the ontology were auto-synch'd with the wiki (i.e., it
was created on the fly from the current wiki structure),
then if visualized, it could be used as the play toy. The
TouchGraph toolkit that I've extended for use in Ceryle has
an adjunct component meant to visualize a website. I imagine
that if that website were a wiki, it might not take too
much work to get the whole shebang for almost no extra work. (04)
Murray (05)
http://touchgraph.sourceforge.net/
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Murray Altheim http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK . (06)
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