The CoP-CWE as an implementation of a DKR

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The CoP-CWE as an implementation of a DKR
Presentation to the NextNow group

• Communities in Action Case Studies

24-Sep-2004 Atherton, CA., USA Peter P. Yim
ltpeter_yim_at_cim3.comgt (v 1.00)
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Outline

• Background
• One Bootstrappers interpretation
• the CIM3-CWE
• Cases of CoP CWEs

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Background snapshots from UnRev-II
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Collective Intelligence in Action
Dynamic Knowledge Repository
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Relationship between DKR and CoDIAK
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The Prototype-DKR Front End
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The Seminar-on-Demand Webcast
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Responses to the Questionnaires
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One Bootstrappers interpretation the
CIM3-CWECollaborative Work Environmentas an
implementation of a DKR
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PPYs Personal Observations on the Paradigm Shift
Doug is Calling for

• Bootstrapping is holistic and not reductionist
• it calls for openness, and for a total different
  attitude towards sharing, that almost need a
  transformation in our culture for it to thrive
• it needs to be internalized
• At this point, it (still) is (in Donald Stokes
  term in his Pasteurs Quadrant Basic Science
  and Technological Innovation) Use-inspired basic
  research.
• It calls for action, not just talk.

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Introducing CIM

• CIM Engineering, Inc. - San Mateo, CA
• Incorporated in California Jan. 1989
• CIM Computer Integrated Manufacturing (with our
  origin in manufacturing and manufacturing
  systems)
• CIM3
• originally, Computer Integrated-Man-Machine
  Manufacturing
• now, Collaboration In huMan-Machine-Methodology
• Effectively, we are about optimizing systems of
  People, Tools and Process

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What Does CIM3 Do?

• Mission to enable more effective distributed
  collaboration and virtual enterprise through
  bootstrapping collective intelligence over the
  Internet
• CIM3
• originally, Computer Integrated-Man-Machine
  Manufacturing
• now, Collaboration In huMan-Machine-Methodology
• Effectively, we are about optimizing systems of
  People, Tools and Process
• Doing business as
• cim3.com, cim3.net and cim3.org
• cim3.com the business arm of the company
• cim3.net the collaborative work environments
  where client Communities of Practice and
  distributed team workspaces are hosted
• cim3.org the research arm, and holder of the
  companys open technology, content and other
  intellectual properties
• Products/Services providing an ISP/ASP based
  Collaborative Work Environment (CWE) hosted
  infrastructure that enables distributed project
  teams, virtual enterprise partners and
  communities of practice to work effectively over
  the Internet.

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Our FocusCommunities Distributed Teams

• People as an integral part of the system
• The Community Spectrum Kaplan/iCohere
• Affinity Networks
• Learning Communities
• Communities of Practice (CoPs)
• Project Teams
• We optimize our infrastructure, tools and process
  for CoPs and Distributed Project Teams

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CIM3's Approach

• Augmentation - human-machine interaction -
  collaboration - communities
• Openness - we use open-source software comply
  with open standards as much as we can we
  open-source our technology and content, and
  participate in open standards development
• Capitalizing on the Internet technology taking
  it
• from the research and academic network
• to the current form as publishing media
• to Transactions and Web Services
• onto being its future as knowledge media in the
  Semantic Web
• Providing Enterprise performance, quality,
  robustness, security fault tolerance
• Providing platform neutrality supporting
  machines on PCs, Macs, Linux, Unix,
• System built upon a knowledge architecture
  optimized for distributed teamwork
• Emphasis on effectiveness and strategic value -
  not technology
• Supporting entire user spectrum from the
  everyday users to the power users
• While we do open-source work, we believe in
  properly remunerating our contributors, and in
  helping create a viable economic model for open
  work, possibly in the form of Open Virtual
  Enterprises (OVEs)

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The Case for the Augmentation Approach in CWE

• We work towards providing a work environment for
  both humans and machines, optimizing between
  objectives like
• Supporting the expressiveness that humans need to
  convey their ideas, and the structure and rigor
  that machines need to properly interoperate - in
  essence, promoting both creativity and
  operational efficacy
• The ease-of-use that everyday users need, and the
  versatility and extensibility that power users
  need to take their work to the next level
• Securing the borders of the cwe to malicious
  intruders, while encouraging access,
  participation, sharing and the free flow of
  information and knowledge among members of the
  trusted communities
• Catering to the quality requirements of
  information and transaction processing systems
  and the realities of human behavior that just
  arent
• Fully describable, fully online, fully
  informative, fully accurate, or fully responsible
• Our intent is to foster shared understanding and
  learning
• We are trying to spur innovation, as well as
  organic or emergent behavior in the user
  communities and teams

Ref Winograd, Newman, Yim Including People
in CIM Designs
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The Collaborative Work Environment Features

• archived email forum
• Wiki a read-and-write web
• document repository/file sharing workspace
• Community of Practice (CoP) portal
• Fine-grain access and linking (purple numbers)
• Full-text search

• voice conferencing
• screen/application sharing
• instant messaging
• real-time chat session
• Optimized for distributed community and teamwork
• Platform neutral

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Our Hosting Facility
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Case Implementations CoP CWEs in Action
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Some Current CIM3 Projects Pilots

• eGov - ltcolabgt, ltsinegt, ltgov-cwegt
• Open standards development
• ontolog Forum - an international forum on
  business ontologies
• NIST semantic distance workshop on ltinteropgt
• OASIS-UBL TC work/collaboration support
• International Collaborative RD
• Millennium Project - State of the Future Index
  System Development
• AC/UNU-Millennium Project - hosting and
  collaboration support
• Digital Art Ontology - ltdaogt
• Learning/Education
• Aragon Robotics Team - ltartgt
• Western Region Robotics Forum - an adjunct to the
  FIRST Robotics Competition initiative
• Stanford Medical Informatics - ltprotégégt

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Case Examples of Communities on the CIM3 CWE

• Ontolog-Forum
• eGov COLAB
• eGov SINE
• GOV-CWE
• NIST-interop
• Millennium Project(AC/UNU)
• Protégé
• Digital Art Ontology
• (more)

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http//sine.cim3.net
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http//interop.cim3.net/
The CWE where NIST is engaging an international
community of multi-disciplinary experts in a
discourse on semantic distance
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http//colab.cim3.net/
The pilot and the sandbox for eGov CWEs
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http//gov-cwe.cim3.net
For the community of Government CWE users and
administrators
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ontolog-forum
http//ontolog.cim3.net

• Ontolog is an open forum to
• Discuss practical issues and strategies
  associated with the development of both formal
  and informal ontologies used in business
• Identify ontological engineering approaches that
  might be applied to the UBL effort (and by
  extension, to the broader domain of eBusiness
  standardization efforts)
• What holds us together our Core Value
• Developing Shared Understanding
• Openness
• Advancing the practice of semantic engineering
• Doing meaningful work and making a difference
  with it

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A walk-through of the ltontologgt Community CWE

• The Discussion Forum
• The Wiki a readwrite website
• The File Workspace/Repository
• Best Practices
• Archived discussions
• Project HomePages
• Sharing documents and Resources
• Augmented Conference Calls
• Virtual Presentations Workshops
• Knowledge sharing, re-use, access exploration
• An open collaborative work environment

on tackling 'wicked problems' it's about
arriving at a shared commitment, with a shared
understanding, augmented by a shared display and
a facilitator. -- citing the
work by the IBIS people (Horst Rittle/Jeff
Conklin)
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CWE use cases Archived Discussions
ref http//ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/
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CWE use cases wiki augmented meetings calls
ref http//ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Meeti
ngsCalls
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CWE use cases shared document repository
ref http//ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Confe
rence_Call_2004-01-08
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CWE use cases collective intelligence
ref http//art.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Resources
Links
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The User Interface
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Architecture
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Some Thoughts
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The Challenges

• Bootstrapping is to the Knowledge era as Total
  Quality Management is to the Industrial era
• We need to be improving at an exponential rate,
  just to cope with the exponential rate of
  change happening around us
• We need the tools, the process, and most
  importantly the people to all work together
• Team building, with distributed individuals who
  might not even have met one another, is a
  challenge
• Trusted communities cannot be developed overnight
• The current economic and legal infrastructure
  arent meant for these types of organizations
• The individual participants hold the key to the
  communities success its in their attitude
  towards sharing

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An Organizational Form that the CWE aims at
supporting bringing us from collaboration
to innovation by forging the Open Virtual
Enterprises
these are temporary (or semi-permanent)
hierarchies, that emerge out of the CoP's, which
capitalize on distributed capabilities to achieve
specific purposes when those purposes are
achieved (or when the opportunities no longer
exist), they disband, and the resources (people,
knowledge, skillsets) are returned to the CoP's
where they come from.
The Fishnet Organization
Source Institute for the Future Johansen, R.,
Swigart, R.  Upsizing the Individual in the
Downsized Organization
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Q A and Discussion