RE: [topicmaps-comment] Re: on the Manhattan project for the KnowledgeSciences

[paul <beadmaster@ontologystream.com>]

David,

The notion that OntologyStream and BCNGroup is developing is that :

1) Intellectual Property protection is needed by the knowledge science
community so that as the E-Knowledge community develops a next generation
knowledge technology that the science community (BCNGroup is a not-for
profit that has been set up for this purpose) can leverage ownership against
the establishment.  (Long sentence..sorry).   Summary: a community of real
scientists have to own the foundations of the new knowledge technologies to
keep this from being spoiled by the marketing and IT commercialization
establishment.

2) Provides a .NET type vertical Framework that is designed to support the
knowledge science & technology community (rather than the software developer
community).  CoreTalk's inclusion in the first group of partners is
encouraging in this respect.  We need to build on CoreTalk's iconic
representation of software behavior so that the behaviors that Don Mitchell
is talking about can be used as a means of controlling the interaction
between human communities.  Again, this points to the types of needs that we
feel are motivating the work that Rex and others are doing in human mark up.

In supporting the knowledge science & technology community (rather than the
software developer community) we claim that software developers have not
been very good at understanding the needs of knowledge management.  What we
are looking for is a migration of part of the current XML / extreme
programming / topic maps community into the E-Knowledge space, and we wish
to have a IP protection compliance model in place to own the space (and keep
it safe).  Joining BCNGroup now would be helpful. www.bcngroup.org


You said:

"In Cybernetic terms we need to not only address dramatically the "skill
level" (lack of it?) in conventional IT and AI (GOFAI), but we also must
address the (interfering) factors of human factors. IT and GOFAI designs
tend to ignore or eliminate design aspects of what impact is has having
HUMANS in the loop. Cybernetic designs INCLUDED them, and so were more
complete and wholistic. BTW, IT comes from automating bookkeeping and
sending
goods or transactions through some conduit, delivery system etc."

and both the points are very relevant.

The human factors aspects of intelligence is what NIMA is looking for in
their current BAA, and for which I am making a proposal via SAIC this week.

We are proposing to develop a science around the notion (their notion) of
Human Information Interaction.  This is NOT the type of data mining and
intelligence on people places and things that Microsoft's research groups
are doing

http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=709&a=27381,00.asp


The motivation is quite different.

The OntologyStream Knowledge Operating System and other Knowledge
Technologies are

1) stratified, formative and thus agile
2) involves that action - perception cycle of human awareness directly
3) involves the use of semiotics (theory of sign systems) to instantiate a
descriptive enumeration of type

The business plan and foundational papers is at:

http://www.ontologystream.com/admin/formationCommunities.htm


I again point to Tonfoni's work

http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/gtonfoni/tonfoni.htm

regarding the markup of the meaning of text.  When such work is combined
with a chorographic language about human behavior, then we move into a new
computer science.

What human markup implies to me is a theory of gestures.