Federating knowledge: exploring ways to bridge wikis and notes

EDIT: Canceled for the time being, I am sick 😷😭

Join the workshop at #39C3! Day 1, 17:00 @ Free Knowledge Habitat Workshop Area.

Most people and organisations have their very own way of acquiring, organising, archiving, sharing, and collaborating on knowledge repositories. A broad spectrum of opinions and approaches resulted in a diverse and rich ecosystem of knowledge management solutions. Nevertheless, this also implies scattered and disconnected knowledge sources. What would it mean to build bridges among wikis and federate knowledge?

This workshop is going to be heavily centred on a twofold discussion, exploring the challenge of federated knowledge starting from two questions.

• What does it mean to federate knowledge repositories?
• Instead of pursuing a silver-bullet solution to embrace all use-cases, what would it mean to foster and enable interoperability for different software?

These questions stem from years of questioning and wondering how to integrate my personal note-taking and collective, participatory knowledge management at work, in organisations, institutions, and informal collectives. Recently, I began actively researching this topic as I started playing with the MediaWiki API to cross-synchronise my local Markdown notes and the XPUB wiki, the public learning wiki of the Experimental Publishing master. I am puzzled by taking advantage of the potential of a specific software (in this case, MediaWiki) while fearing of being locked-in.

Some further, more specific, insights and questions:

• Local-first approaches and software (e.g. Reflection)
• Interesting experiments based on existing protocols, such as Ibis
• What do we take of semi-open and obscure yet very cool initiatives like Anytype
• The power and the limits of plain-text: how to enable collaboration on simple Markdown files and build on top of it, as Obsidian does

Cc: @modal @p2panda @obsidian @wikimediaDE @dweb

#knowledge #FreeKnowledge #wiki #MediaWiki #API #Obsidian #Anytype #Ibis #IbisWiki #Reflection #CCC #Federation #federatedKnowledge #docs #PKM #knowledgeManagement #personalKnowledgeManagement #collectiveKnowledgeManagement #DWeb #decentralization #ActivityPub

Here's a great introduction to working smarter: Harold Jarche's "Working Smarter with Personal Knowledge Mastery" free downloadable guide.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2020/03/working-smarter-with-knowledge

#learning #WorkingSmarter #HaroldJarche #PersonalKnowledgeManagement #FreeGuide #assnchat

I added support for dark mode for the AI-assistant that I'm developing for Logseq.

#Logseq #PersonalknowledgeManagement #PKM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

So for the Logseq AI plugin, just for fun, I added the ability to generate images.

#Logseq #personalknowledgeManagement #PKM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

GitHub repo to the AI plugin that I'm working on for Logseq.

https://github.com/shovon/logseq-ai

#Logseq #PKM #PersonalKnowledgeManagement #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

So I've been working on an AI assistant for Logseq, a note taking app. Think of this like a "Cursor for Logseq".

I'm quite happy as to where it's at right now, but I have a long way to go.

#ToolsForThought #Logseq #PersonalKnowledgeManagement #PKM

It's live! 🎉 My latest article, "Note-Taking vs. Personal Knowledge Management: Why Your Brain Will Thank You," is now published.

Dive into the fundamental differences between basic note-taking and a robust PKM system. Discover why adopting a PKM is crucial for your cognitive abilities, particularly as AI advances.

Read it here: https://www.ctnet.co.uk/note-taking-vs-personal-knowledge-management-why-your-brain-will-thank-you/

#PersonalKnowledgeManagement #PKM #NoteTaking #KnowledgeWorker #LearningStrategy #AI #ProductivityTips #Zettelkasten

Here's a great introduction to working smarter: Harold Jarche's "Working Smarter with Personal Knowledge Mastery" free downloadable guide.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2020/03/working-smarter-with-knowledge

#learning #WorkingSmarter #HaroldJarche #PersonalKnowledgeManagement #FreeGuide #assnchat