[-empyre-] intertextual threads

[Kenneth Fields <ken@ccom.edu.cn>]

Would anyone like to do a quick comparison between CAW project and 
'Knowledge Authoring' stand-alone applications such as: Cultos - 
http://www.cultos.org/results/index.php . They have incorporated an 
ontology of Intertextuality which supplements the authoring process in 
relating texts, media files and meta-data. They stress a difference 
between 'thread' authoring (intertextual threads - a group of related 
texts/images/etc) and 'paper' authoring.

Their concept of intertextual threads creates a file that is both 
database and annotation (they compare this approach to PowerPoint [on 
steroids]). I'm interested in manipulation of the knowledge base - 
leaving the database in its distributed state until summoned - but this 
method would provide for a knowledge authoring system like the audio 
programs Reason or Live - which bundle 'session' files with their audio 
data files. The idea of session files is that they can be played back 
and/or reauthored/extended; the extensions can contain annotation and 
signature.

Would this method in some way 'threaten' open knowledge systems in some 
way (by instantiating personal (authorial) points of view), or is some 
closure good (just being rhetorical). In audio we have the term 
'granular synthesis;' intertextual threads might be the knowledge 
equivalent which might be called 'granular texthesis.'

So we have community of practice knowledge farms (generates discourse 
activity and useful xml residual), derived (not specified) ontologies, 
and knowledge authoring systems (individual/unique 
compositions/narratives/navigation of a concept space - intertextual 
book - knowledge tourist guide), extended unique/enclosed threads that 
result in an intertextual web.

These 'threads' can be linked to wiki's and listserv's to provide for 
the dynamicism we so much crave. And I believe they can be microlinked 
(purple numbers).

Sorry to have ducked out of the conversation that I found very 
interesting. We have a conference here now (newmediabeijing.org).

Ken Fields




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