Federating knowledge: exploring ways to bridge wikis and notes
Join the workshop at #39C3!
NEW DATE: day 4, TODAY at 13:40 @ 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
![My still life photograph of these Scallop shells and pearls (captured at my home in Sydney) immediately made me think of the wonderful song - "Pearly Shells" by Burl Ives >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsCA4Kskmjc or https://www.pinterest.com/pin/112027109458448611/
My still life image of Scallop shells (top and bottom shell) with a string of pearls showing their pretty reflections on a black background.
By Kaye Menner Photography
https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/pearly-shells-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html
[From Wikipedia]
Scallop is a common name that is primarily applied to any one of numerous species of saltwater clams or marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops. The common name "scallop" is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families within the superfamily Pectinoidea.
Scallops are a cosmopolitan family of bivalves, found in all of the world's oceans, though never in freshwater. They are one of very few groups of bivalves to be primarily "free-living"; many species are capable of rapidly swimming short distances and even of migrating some distance across the ocean floor. A small minority of scallop species live cemented to rocky substrates as adults, while others are more simply attached by means of a filament they secrete called a byssal thread.](/proxy/post_attachment/127718/2a7ed09148.jpeg "My still life photograph of these Scallop shells and pearls (captured at my home in Sydney) immediately made me think of the wonderful song - \"Pearly Shells\" by Burl Ives >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsCA4Kskmjc or https://www.pinterest.com/pin/112027109458448611/
My still life image of Scallop shells (top and bottom shell) with a string of pearls showing their pretty reflections on a black background.
By Kaye Menner Photography
https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/pearly-shells-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html
[From Wikipedia]
Scallop is a common name that is primarily applied to any one of numerous species of saltwater clams or marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops. The common name \"scallop\" is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families within the superfamily Pectinoidea.
Scallops are a cosmopolitan family of bivalves, found in all of the world's oceans, though never in freshwater. They are one of very few groups of bivalves to be primarily \"free-living\"; many species are capable of rapidly swimming short distances and even of migrating some distance across the ocean floor. A small minority of scallop species live cemented to rocky substrates as adults, while others are more simply attached by means of a filament they secrete called a byssal thread.")
