Smart Systems for Intelligent Knowledge Use

智能知识使用的智能系统

• 批准号: RGPIN-2019-05686
• 负责人: Blustein, William
• 金额: $ 1.68万
• 依托单位: Dalhousie University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=738450
• 关键词: Smart; Systems; Intelligent; Knowledge; Use

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 information-text, 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 build-as an architect would-textbooks 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 contexts-integrating 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.

受到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，用于智能知识的使用，旨在最大限度地综合和创造新知识和理解文本，对象等。考虑到可访问性，我和我的学员利用WWW的灵活性，使文本和非文本对象比以前的基于纸张的技术更容易获得和适应。我的研究实验室，HAIKU（超文本增强智能知识使用），植根于意义建构：开发计算解决方案，通过为学生创建一套集成的工具来优化高等教育学习者对知识的吸收，使他们成为专家。我的研究为万维网带来了切实的应用，作为一个多产的工具，使信息-文本，图像，声音等-用户可理解、可访问和可理解。这项研究确保了万维网是一个创新、独创性和进步的工具。在这里，我集中在（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）方法的最佳方面与数字媒体的优势（而不是缺点）。我的研究既有基础性的，也有应用性的成果，并大大推动了计算机辅助文本注释及其应用领域的发展[4]。在未来的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将成为一个测试平台，用于测试知识获取的工具：设计和构建（就像建筑师一样）学生将在学习过程中更新的教科书。关于数字对象的策展，我们正在努力建立一个触摸档案，一个非文本对象的策展集合。一个物体不仅仅是它的离散属性的总和。要欣赏一个物体的全部复杂性，必须在各种背景下理解它，整合多种人类观点和相关资源。数字和非文本对象的真实再现越来越成为画廊，图书馆，档案馆和博物馆关注的领域。从我最初的项目设计与土著历史学者海蒂Bohaker（多伦多大学）和卡拉汤顿（NSCAD），触摸档案正在发展成为一个国际合作伙伴关系（加拿大，德国和意大利的研究人员已经承诺）为有形和档案资源的多方面互动策展收藏的发展。这项工作对各个社区的口述历史和解具有重要意义，例如土著人的认知方式的传播，以及文化遗产的数字化保存。