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Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Sharing. Associative Thinking Assistant. Problem withToday’s Desktop 3 Topic Hierarchies. BookMark File Manager Internal Links Manager. WebSphinx (Miller, Bharat). Desktop tools are outdated. Computer is not a storage container Barrier between local and web
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Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Sharing USF Department of Computer Science
Associative Thinking Assistant USF Department of Computer Science
Problem withToday’s Desktop 3 Topic Hierarchies BookMark File Manager Internal LinksManager WebSphinx (Miller, Bharat) USF Department of Computer Science
Desktop tools are outdated • Computer is not a storage container • Barrier between local and web • Computer is a communication tool, a node in the knowledge base of the world USF Department of Computer Science
Interesting Information Sources • Google • Amazon • OLD: Way-back machine • NEW:Technorati– The World Live Web • Domain Specific: • ACM Digital Library • Citeseer USF Department of Computer Science
www.technorati.com USF Department of Computer Science
CiteSeer: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ USF Department of Computer Science
ACM USF Department of Computer Science
Internet Archive, Wayback USF Department of Computer Science
WIKIs USF Department of Computer Science
Lawrence Lessig’s Blog • http://www.lessig.org/blog/ USF Department of Computer Science
Associative Thinking Agent USF Department of Computer Science
Web Services • Programmatic interface to web data • Software agent access to data • Helps separate View/Model • More robust than “web scrapers” • XML/Soap • Rest-ful Interfaces USF Department of Computer Science
ACRONYM HELL • XML/Soap • WSDL • UDDI USF Department of Computer Science
Associative Source API and Registry • A common search/link info API • A central UDDI registry • Allows for meta-search clients with dynamic lists of sources. Clients can access even those sources created after the client itself. USF Department of Computer Science
Know more about yourself Analysis of file system • Linking between documents • inward links • characteristic words of documents • what people are referred to • what web pages USF Department of Computer Science
New Communication Tools • Blogs • Wikis USF Department of Computer Science
Let me out! USF Department of Computer Science
More hierarchies… • Blog categories USF Department of Computer Science
Nth Degree 2nd Degree 1st Degree PersonalWeb The Personal Web Personal Space consists of highly interrelated files, i.e. a personal web The Web should be personalized to each user, i.e., a personal web. Personal Web-- local documents and “bookmarks” N-degree Neighborhood– can be reached with n clicks. USF Department of Computer Science
Connecting Personal Webs People create knowledge-- bookmarking, annotating, linking, synthesizing-- every day. People are lousy about taking the extra step to communicate this knowledge. USF Department of Computer Science
A Key Question How much of the information hidden within your personal web is hidden due to privacy concerns? USF Department of Computer Science