Networking of Knowledge

Too Big to Know David Weinberger Ph.D.

[email protected] www.JohoTheBlog.com dweinberger@twitter

Harvard Library Innovation Lab

Co-Director

Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Senior Researcher

Systems Integration KM Leaders Community

Dec. 18, 2012

StuffPo

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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, not his own

facts.

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, not his own

facts.


There is one knowledge.


Knowledge will bring us together.

What knowledge was

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Birds

Invertebrates

Plants

Living things

Vertebrates

Reptiles

Animals

Mammals

Certified!Answer!

STOP!Belief!Point!

(c) Abelardo Morell

Networked science (cc) Howzey @ Flickr!

The Net is exposing a long-hidden truth

We Don’t Agree . The Net is exposing a long-hidden truth

Fur?

Bird beak?? EGGS???

Four

feet?

Names

Taxonomies

Scientist Scientist Scientist Platypus!

watermole!

Ornithorhynchus paradoxus!

EOL.org

Social learning

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Thesis

Software developers now live in the fastest, most

efficient and effective ecosystem for rapid learning

that ever existed

Lessons from Developers

Humility & Generosity

Iteration

Public learning

Photos: Abundance without order

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Birds

Invertebrates

Plants

Living things

Vertebrates

Reptiles

Animals

Mammals

Red

1942

coiff

Rosie the Riveter

Messiness scales

meaning

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Authority

Library as platform

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Platform vs. Portal

Tools

People

Services

Works ideas

Data Metadata

1.

2.

3.

Ubiquitous portal access

Social objects > networks

Open innovation

People Works ideas 1.

Tools Services

End-user services

Developer building blocks

Developer tools

2.

Data Metadata

Backends are Web-starts

Support standards

Share our work

Rethink privacy

3.

Locality enables Difference

What knowledge was

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Curated

Scarce

Settled

Orderly

Discrete

inclusive

Unsettled

Overwhelming

messy

Linked

Networked knowledge may or may not be true-er

about the world,

but it is true-er about human knowing.

Thank you.

David Weinberger Blog: www . JohoTheBlog . Com

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