Codifying Knowledge

Tags: Ideas, Facts, Data, Information, Knowledge, Learning <Insert a hover code where it links out to a visual semantic form of Thesaurus, related words, Wiki>

What is this project about?

To systematically study how I think and deal with encountered ideas and information.
To develop my knowledge and to hone in my skills in managing knowledge

How do I do it?

Personal Reflections

Some questions with regards to how I process information

Where and how did this information come from? (Source)
What is the nature of this information? (Type)
How is this information important or relevant to me? (Purpose)
When did I encounter this information before and when will I need it again? (Development)
What do I do with this information? (Action)

Cognitive Process

Q: How do I process the information?

Recall
Analyse - Semantics/ Experiences
Categorise and Organise
- Headers/Themes/ Subject/ Field/ Disciplines
- Relevant/ Related/ Associated
Design - Present/ Format
Communicate

Formal Standards and Methods
Fields/ Disciplines
- Philosophy of Information
- Theory of Information
- Informatics
- Cognition Informatics

Sources of my Information

Q: How did I get this information? - Mind, Research, chance upon, Updated through subscription, casual browsing

Q: Where/Who did I get my information from? - Memory/Synthesis, Social, Internet, physical publications

Q: What is the nature of my information from? - Self, primary, secondary, tertiary source

Recollection and Synthesis
People I meet
Physical Repositories
- Library
- Personal Collections (Notes, Books)
Internet
- Social Media (Facebook, Twitter)
- Sites (Wiki)
- Stumble upon
- Emails
- Links
- Subscriptions from Google Reader
Publications
- Periodicals
  - Newspapers
  - Newsletters
  - Magazines
- Advertisements
- Published Literature
  - Fiction and Non-Fiction Books
  - Textbooks

Uses and Outcomes

Q: What will I use this information for?

Q: What type of information is this?

Q: Is this information authoritative? Primary, Secondary Tertiary source? Who published it for what and why? What is the intent of this information?

Q: What do I do with the Idea and Information?

Formal Projects and Movements to create, organise and Present Bodies of Knowledge

Guide to the (Evolving) Enterprise Architecture Body of Knowledge (PDF)
Biblio tecapleyades (Site) - New ways of interpreting History, Sciences, Sociopolitics, Myths and Legends, Archeology, Astronomy and Alternative knowledge such as Exopolitics, Neo-Archeology, Parascience, "Alternative" Medicine, Life in Our Universe
Usability Body of Knowledge: Materials from Published literature, conference proceedings, and the experiences of practitioners
Infographics
Personal Knowledge Management PKM (Wiki)

Reviews

Wikipedia's Approach to Knowledge

Outlines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Outlines
Outline of Knowledge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_knowledge
Knowledge Tree: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/graphics/tree.png

Usability Body of Knowledge

Subject Areas
- Methods
- Design
  - Definition
  - Design Principles (Vs Design Patterns Vs Heuristic Evaluation)
    - Overviews
    - Usefulness (Value/ Relevance)
    - Consistency (Consistency and Standards/ Real-World Conventions)
    - Simplicity (Simplicity/ Visability/ Self-Evidency)
    - Communication (Feedback/ Structure/ Sequencing/ Help and Documentation)
    - Error Prevention and Handling (Forgiveness/ Error Recovery/ Undo and Redo)
    - Efficiency (Efficacy/ Shortcuts/ User Control)
    - Workload Reduction (Supportive Automation/ Reduce Memory Load/ Free Cognitive Resources for High-Level Tasks)
    - Usability Judgement (It depends/ Foolish Consistency)
- Organizational Topics
- Research Issues
- Professional Development
- Related Fields
  - ISO 13407:1999 Human centred design processes for interactive systems
  - Design Profession
    - Human Factors/Ergonomics
    - Experience
    - Information Architecture
    - Interaction Architecture
    - Information Design
    - Industrial Design
    - Graphic Design
- Reading LIsts

Personal Knowledge Management (Wiki)

Skills

Reflection - Continuous improvement on how the individual operates.
Manage learning - Manage how and when the individual learns.
Information literacy - Understanding what information is important and how to find unknown information.
Organizational skills - Personal librarianship. Personal categorization and taxonomies.
Networking with others - Knowing what your network of people knows. Knowing who might have additional knowledge and resources to help you
Researching, canvassing, paying attention, interviewing and observational 'cultural anthropology' skills
Communication skills - Perception, intuition, expression, visualization, and interpretation.
Creative skills - Imagination, pattern recognition, appreciation, innovation, inference. Understanding of complex adaptive systems.
Collaboration skills - Coordination, synchronization, experimentation, cooperation, and design.

Tools

Just-in-time Canvassing - templates and e-mail canvassing lists that enable people to identify and connect with the appropriate experts and expertise quickly and effectively
Knowledge harvesting - software tools that automatically collect appropriate knowledge residing on subject matter experts' hard drives
Content management tools - taxonomy processes and desktop search tools that enable employees to subscribe to, find, organize, and publish information that resides on their desktops
Personal Productivity Improvement - knowledge fairs and one-on-one training sessions to help each employee make more effective personal use of the knowledge, learning, and technology resources available in the context of their work
social bookmarking and enterprise social bookmarking
knowledge logs (K-logs)
e-mail, calendars, task managers
Online Web Assistants
Wikis

Open Space Technology, cultural anthropology, stories and narrative, mindmaps, concept maps and meta-language, and single frames and similarvisualization techniques. Individuals use these tools to capture and ideas, expertise, experience, opinions, or thoughts, and this 'voicing' will encourage cognitive diversity and promote free exchanges away from a centralized policed knowledge repository. The goal is to facilitate knowledge sharing and personal content management.

Glance or Read it
Store it
- Digitize/ Write
This Website
Notebook
Process it
- Outlines and Headers
- Annotate
Assimilate it

Google Sites

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