Smart Systems for Intelligent Knowledge Use

受Engelbart增强人类智力的愿景的启发，我的实验室的长期目标是创建基于WWW的智能系统，用于智能知识使用，旨在最大限度地合成和创造新知识，并从文本、对象等理解。我寻求为信息工作者开发更好的技术、工具和界面，以便有效地使用来自多个来源的文档、语料库和数据。出于对可访问性的考虑，我和我的学员利用WWW的灵活性，使文本和非文本对象比早期的基于纸张的技术更可用和更具适应性。 我的研究实验室haiku(超文本增强智能知识使用)植根于感知：开发计算解决方案，通过为学生创建一套集成的工具来构建知识以成为专家，从而优化高等教育学习者对知识的吸收。我的研究为WWW带来了切实的应用，作为一个多产的工具，使用户可以发现、访问和理解文本、图像、声音等信息。这项研究确保了WWW是创新、独创性和先进性的工具。在这里，我集中讨论(A)技术支持的教育和(B)数字对象的管理。 在技术支持的教育背景下，我寻求传统(纸质)方法的最佳方面，以及数字媒体的优点(而不是缺点)。我的研究既有基础的也有应用的成果，并大大推进了计算机辅助文本注释及其使用的领域[4]。在接下来的5年里，我计划建立在开放电子资源(OER)的基础上，使用户能够从现有的文本中获得更多、更持久的知识。OER将成为知识获取工具的试验台：以建筑师的身份设计和建造教科书，学生们将在学习过程中更新这些教科书。 关于数字对象的管理，我们正在努力建立一个触摸档案，这是一个非文本对象的管理集合。一个对象不仅仅是其离散属性的总和。要欣赏一个物体的全部复杂性，就必须在不同的背景下理解它--整合多种人类观点和相关资源。数字和非文本对象的真实表示越来越受到美术馆、图书馆、档案馆和博物馆的关注。从我与土著历史学者Heidi Bohaker(多伦多大学)和Carla Taunton(NSCAD)的最初项目设计开始，Touch档案正在演变为一个国际合作伙伴关系(与加拿大、德国和意大利的研究人员已经承诺)，以开发一个多方面的、互动的、经过策展的有形和档案资源集合。这项工作对不同社区的口述-历史和解具有重要意义，例如土著了解方式的传播和文化遗产的数字保护。

Inspired by Engelbart's vision of augmenting human intellect, the long-term objective of my lab is to create WWW-based smart systems for intelligent knowledge use that are designed to maximize synthesis and creation of new knowledge and understanding from text, objects, etc. I seek to develop better techniques, tools and interfaces for information workers to use documents, corpora, and data from multiple sources effectively. With a concern for accessibility, my trainees and I harness the WWW's flexibility to make text and non-textual objects more available and adaptable than earlier paper-based technologies. My research lab, HAIKU (Hypertext Augmenting Intelligent Knowledge Use), is rooted in sensemaking: developing computing solutions that optimize tertiary learners' uptake of knowledge by creating an integrated suite of tools for students to build knowledge to become expert. My research brings tangible application to the WWW, as a prolific tool to make informationtext, image, sound, etc.discoverable, accessible and comprehensible to users. This research ensures that the WWW is a tool of innovation, ingenuity and advancement. Here I concentrate on (a) technology-supported education and (b) curation of digital objects. In the context of technology-supported education, I seek the best aspects of traditional (paper-based) methods with the advantages (not drawbacks) of digital media. My research has both fundamental and applied outputs and has substantially moved forward the field of computer-assisted textual annotation and its uses [4]. In the next 5 years, I plan to build on open electronic resources (OER) to enable users to make more, and more persistent, knowledge, from existing texts. OER will be a testbed for tools that are instrumental for knowledge acquisition: to design and buildas an architect wouldtextbooks that students will update over the course of their studies. With respect to curation of digital objects, we are working to build a touch archive, a curated collection of non-textual objects. An object is more than the sum of its discrete attributes. To appreciate an object in its full complexity, it must be understood in various contextsintegrating multiple human viewpoints and related resources. The authentic representation of digital and non-textual objects is increasingly an area of concern for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. From my initial project design with Indigenous history scholars Heidi Bohaker (U of Toronto) and Carla Taunton (NSCAD), the touch archive is evolving as an international partnership (with Canadian, German, and Italian researchers already committed) for the development of a multi-faceted interactive curated collection of tangible and archival resources. This work has important implications for oral-historical reconciliation of various communities, such as the transmission of Indigenous ways of knowing, and the digital preservation of cultural heritage.