Smart Systems for Intelligent Knowledge Use

受Engelbart关于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，并从文本，对象等中理解。我试图为信息工作者开发更好的技术、工具和接口，以便有效地使用来自多个来源的文档、语料库和数据。考虑到可访问性，我和我的学员们利用WWW的灵活性，使文本和非文本对象比以前基于纸张的技术更容易获得和适应。我的研究实验室HAIKU （Hypertext augmentation Intelligent Knowledge Use，超文本增强智能知识使用）根植于语义制造：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，使学生成为专家，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，使信息——文本、图像、声音等——对用户来说是可发现、可访问和可理解的。这项研究确保了WWW是一个创新、独创性和进步的工具。在这里，我专注于(a)技术支持的教育和(b)数字对象的策展。在技术支持教育的背景下，我寻求传统（纸质）方法的最佳方面与数字媒体的优点（而不是缺点）。我的研究既有基础成果，也有应用成果，并在计算机辅助文本注释及其应用领域取得了实质性进展[4]。在未来的5年里，我计划在开放电子资源（OER）的基础上，让用户从现有的文本中获得更多、更持久的知识。OER将成为获取知识的工具的测试平台：像建筑师一样设计和建造教科书，学生将在学习过程中不断更新。关于数字物品的管理，我们正在努力建立一个触摸档案，一个非文本物品的管理集合。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，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现越来越受到画廊、图书馆、档案馆和博物馆的关注。从我最初与土著历史学者Heidi Bohaker（多伦多大学）和Carla Taunton （NSCAD）的项目设计开始，触摸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策划的有形和档案资源收藏。这项工作对不同社区的口述历史和解具有重要意义，例如土著认识方式的传播，以及文化遗产的数字化保存。

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.