We presented some recent work at the Critical Deliberative Democracy Tech:

Jamie presentend on Digital Governance at Society Library, which included a description of a process I am working on with her;

And then I presented ongoing design work on SenseCraft with Jack Park. Slides are here.

Another video continuing the conversation with Steve Melville and Simon Grant, and thanks to Adriana Ruiz for dropping in:

The conceptual model is settling down. Did a status report for the CTA's Collabathon today.

Still working on getting my data model finialized for the CTA's Collabathon, as mentioned in the february post. We had a long chat about the work in progress with Steve Melville, whose Memetic Activation Platform project (github) looks absolutely amazing. Deep thanks for hosting the call, and for everyone who …

We discussed the state of my fluid concept proposal in a CDL call on March 3rd, 2023.

Nutshell version: I'm still shooting for a federated formal concept lattice. It should evolve as a CRDT using definition elements, in particular distinctions and instances. (From a commoning perspective, we need to add …

Though it might not be obvious here, there is a lot of ongoing activity in the hyperknowledge conceptual universe. Among other things, I am working on a prototype of what I described earlier as concept unification/distinction (with a bit of epistemic federation thrown in.) The point is to have …

Though not strictly a hyperknowledge seminar, these slides describes a plan for building blocks and components for realizing HyperKnowledge. This was presented (on July the 7th 2022, at 12hEST) as part of CDL seminars, with emphasis on how to integrate it with MMM.

This slide deck was presented again the …

I contributed some of the data models to Jack Park's presentation of his OpenSherlock vision on 2022-06-04.

A team within the Canonical Debate Lab, including me, wrote a concise document describing open problems in Collective Intelligence design; or from another perspective pitfalls of a naive approach. Many HyperKnowledge design concerns are reflected in that paper.

This was written for a design competition, which we won for the …

This was be the fourth in a series of seminars examining HyperKnowledge themes, December, Friday 10th at 10hEST.

We focused on notation, and opening up questions around data representation. Slides.

This was be the third in a series of seminars examining HyperKnowledge themes, November, Friday 19th at 10hEST.

The slides show preliminary UML diagrams for statements and concepts.

This was the second in a series of seminars examining HyperKnowledge themes, October Friday 29th at 10hEDT. Here are the slides and the recording below.

What was covered:

1. How to identify statements in a single perspective?
2. Some formal models
3. Focusing on Concepts
4. Internal structure of concepts: a model
5. Frames and …

This was the first in a series of seminars examining HyperKnowledge themes, Tuesday 12th at 13hEDT.

Here are slides.

We looked at the large-scale aims of the HyperKnowledge project, listed specific problems it attempts to solve and why they are important to those aims, and presented proposals for solution to …

A presentation of HyperKnowledge to the Flotilla project group. Notes.

I presented an example vocabulary (json, ttl) for topic linking at the 2020 conference on linked data for libraries, with my friend and colleague Jamie Joyce of Society Library. Video and her slides.

Frode Hegeland invited me to contribute a section to his book on the future of text, where I discuss some of the ideas behind hyperknowledge (pp. 272-273)

Presentation to Canonical Debate Lab, a first attempt to explain claims as topics. Slides.

A presentation of HyperKnowledge to the Open Global Mind group. Slides.

A presentation of HyperKnowledge to the Coronawhy group, with Jack Park of TopicQuests. Slides.

Presentation to Canonical Debate Lab. A good starting point for overall goals, notes below.

State of HyperKnowledge 2020-06

Agenda

• Motivations for HK
• Specific goals
• State of solutions
• Applicability to CD

Motivation

• Ultimate goal: deliberative democracy. Better conversations about social goals and means.
• Local and global organizing. Fractal democracy.
• Many projects …

Thanks to Jack Park and Frode Hegeland, I presented a very early prototype of hyperknowledge in the demo session of the 50th anniversary of the Mother of all demos by Doug Englebart.

I met Jack Park online in a FedWiki meetup, and he invited me to present at the 2016 Knowledge Federation Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia. My slides and Jack's. The beginnings of the HyperKnowledge vision.