Jack ParkThe Open University, UK

TMRA 2010Leipzig, Germany

© 2010 Jack Park; License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Motivation

Federation

Federating Conversations

Scenarios

Set-Union Merge

Virtual Merge

TopicSpaces Merge Architecture

Joe is in Medical School studying to be a doctor

Joe is preparing for a test on Bacterial Infections

Immune Response

Bacterial Infection

Macrophage

Free Radical

Reactive Oxygen

macrophages usefree radicals to

kill bacteria

Bookmark page with these tags

Annotate page with this idea

Use Collective Intelligence tools to record discoveries

Sarah lives a healthy lifestyle

Sarah read that free radicalscan cause cancer

Antioxidant

Free Radical

Bookmark page with these tags

antioxidantskill

free radicals

Annotate page with this idea

Use Collective Intelligence tools to record discoveries

Angel is a cancer patient with recurring bacterial infections

Angel visits a collective intelligence portal to research bacterial infections

Angel becomes curious about free radicals—a new concept to him

Angel makes a discovery

antioxidantskill

free radicals

¡Ay, caramba! What’s this all

about?

macrophages usefree radicals to

kill bacteria

Angel makes a decision

Sounds like I should not take any

more antioxidant pills!

antioxidantskill

free radicals

macrophages usefree radicals to

kill bacteria

Add a new Connection

between the two ideas

Use Collective Intelligence tools to record discoveries

Must Avoid

Olivia is a Medical Doctor interested in immune system subjects

antioxidantskill

free radicals

macrophages usefree radicals to

kill bacteria

Need to restate this information

“Must Avoid” doesn’t really

convey a proper sense of reality

Must Avoid

antioxidantskill

free radicals

Contraindicates

macrophages usefree radicals to

kill bacteria

Bacterial Infection Antioxidants

Because

Create a new set of representations by connecting the two core concepts and

explaining the connection

Olivia gets bonus points for justifying her assertion.

Use Collective Intelligence tools to record discoveries

ContraindicatesBacterial Infection Antioxidants

“Compromised host” as a new concept to be represented in

the knowledge base

Use Collective Intelligence tools to record discoveries

antioxidantskill

free radicals

Contraindicates

macrophages usefree radicals to

kill bacteria

Bacterial Infection Antioxidants

Because

Appropriate For

Compromised Host

Use Collective Intelligence tools to record discoveries

As a Noun:

A collection of people, information resources, and boundary infrastructures (portals) together with many related boundary objects (user interface widgets, …)

As a Verb:

Topic maps merging without filters

"In every deliberation, we must consider

the impact on the seventh generation...”

—Great Law of the Iroquois

Structured Conversation

Transparency

Need to know why a merge was performed

Contestability

Need to be able to contest a merge

Need to be able to unwind a merge

User accessibility

Users must be able to

Propose a merge

Debate a merge

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Non-redundant resources are copied from one proxy to another

Merge Association can

be contested

Proxies remain separate, but linked through merge associations

MergeAgent

MergeRules

Proxy Queue

Topic MapApplications

Topic Map Applications provide merge rules

Merge agent can be distributed, remote, threaded, operating on proxies added to the queue