3/5 We should also recognise that a lot of the things on the internet are good. The map in my Design Issues note shows the good there is online ⬇️
“It happened; it mattered; many fortunes were made. But it happened at the speed of human negotiation and learning”
@teodora this quote is an excerpt from the article shared in this thread about the challenges of data integration in an organization but it recognizes here that anything under the large digital transformation bucket largely moves at the “speed of human negotiation and learning” (i.e. dialogue) as I believe your book focuses on as described here:
“It is the dialogue in its aspect of co-creating knowledge and meaning in contrast to the function of a data-gathering and instruction-exchanged database-driven dialog system, that we will explore here.”
Combine deep academic curiosity, love for the #SemanticWeb, and a unique approach to #HCI and #KnowledgeManagement, and you get @teodora 's concept of "dialogic communication." Add a nuanced appreciation for #marketing and well-curated #metadata and you can convey your org's value to the world. A stimulating and inspiring chat with a powerful #KnowledgeGraph mind - hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.
@rrlevering @dwsmart I think for a lot of people the lack of publicly available visualization/modeling/analyzing tools forms a serious roadblock.
I've seen some luxurious high-$ tools, but for anybody without deep pockets there just isn't anything.
Keeping the use of graphs out of reach for most and stopping them from learning to think in a graph way.
As such it is very hard to learn about and make use of them.
The gap to the lower ranks simply is too big (unless you have a triple PhD).
There are many days that I get disheartened about graphs being too complex to use as an interchange format. My world (structured data at Google) revolves around graphs but humans just have a lot of problems reasoning about higher dimensional data. Sometimes I think trees are about as far as the average person can handle intuitively.
I can easily point to all the advantages in composability, lack of redundancy, etc. but if you can't picture it easily in your mind it makes it hard to work with.
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/3455 brings up interesting questions that I've never seen any documentation from Google about.
Would it be possible to officially document something about this so that publishers know within which limits they can operate?
I'm aware this involves an edge case, though surely if companies want to open up (parts of) their KGs there's value in giving them some guidance about the do's and don'ts.
"The realm of meaning can be overwhelming. But that’s because it contains everything and anything; you are not meant to understand it all.
We descend into the realm of meaning to remember that our words are just tools. Lists, frameworks, rules, PowerPoint, it’s all just stuff pointing to this wordless and mysterious place where experience happens." Found at https://smallishbook.substack.com/p/the-realm-of-meaning❤️
I had the wonderful experience of being interviewed by @teodora, whose questions made me feel like I was having a personal dialogue. I hope you like the results.
Tim Berners-Lee
Andrew Padilla
Larry Swanson
just Jarno
Ryan Levering
Bob DuCharme