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1. SELECTION OF A TOPIC, DISCUSSION OPENING AND PRESENTATION
1. SELECTION OF A TOPIC, DISCUSSION OPENING AND PRESENTATION
During the first weeks, while an overview of the subject matter is being presented, you should start focusing on the topics you are more interested in for the development of your seminar work. The facilitator will indicate when and how to proceed to propose your topic. In addition, one activity will be devoted to guiding you on the use of the glossaLAB platform for the elaboration of your work, though, as a reader, you should start reviewing its contents.
The seminar work is mandatory, and it is expected to be presented by the end of the course (January sessions).
2. WORK GUIDELINES
2. WORK GUIDELINES
As explained in the lectures, the seminar work you have to carry out is going to be done through the clarification of concepts immersed in the conceptual network of the general study of information and systems, as it is being developed in the glossaLAB platform. This open and collaborative platform facilitates cooperation in the interdisciplinary clarification of concepts (including metaphors, theories and problems) that are substantially committed to the understanding of information and systems from multiple perspectives. Its purpose is to enable, in the first place, interdisciplinary understanding; secondly, the creation of a transdisciplinary setting for the study of systems of any kind, and finally, for its application to complex problems. Practically all knowledge domains are called to participate, but we are mostly concerned with concepts related to the understanding of complexity and systems. You can find below a (non-exhaustive) list of topics that are worth working on. You can work on just one topic or on several topics, and find the connections that exist with other concepts within the network of clarified concepts. The documentation section contains published materials you can use for backing up your contribution(s).
The elaboration of your contribution(s) is something you can do in collaboration with other colleagues, as well as with the assistance of the course's teacher. You first need to figure out which articles (voices) you are going to work on. It may happen, when you start, that there are other entries worth being added (for instance, a concept you use which is not clarified yet). About how to create the article drafts and how to edit them, we'll organise a specific seminar in the context of the glossaLAB workshop on November 6th.
Your contribution needs to be properly embedded within the conceptual network of glossaLAB; therefore, it is important to be aware of what is already there and to establish connections with other conceptual clarifications. Concepts never stand alone; one can say that they cooperate with others to make the mapping of reality we are trying to understand, describe, and face. So, you'll have to look around what has already been stated to see how it fits. This fitting together is one of the very purposes of the activity itself, and, by the by, this is the very way in which the parts of a system of any kind ever come together to build up the system.
Possible Topics for the seminar work
Possible Topics for the seminar work
Foundations of systems
Agent | Network | System | Interaction | Space | Boundary | Openness | Information | Environment | Sustainability | Complexity | Simplicity | Autopoiesis | Order vs Disorder
Natural Systems
Physical Systems | Chemical Systems | Biological Systems
Social systems
Social System | Social Network | Political System | Economic System | Cultural System | Juridical System | Health System
Technical Systems
Artefact | Automatic Systems | Artificial Intelligence | Transport Systems | Communication Systems
Cognitive Systems
Cognition | Language | Representation Systems | Knowledge System | Learning System
Requirements
Requirements
In the first place, a list of the article(s)/voice(s) of glossaLAB, in which the participant is willing to work, has to be communicated to the lecturer as soon as possible.
Any entry longer than 700 words needs to start with an ABSTRACT summing up the contents articulated in the proposed entry, and several sections initiated with titles/subtitles.
The relations or the role of systems and complexity need to be dealt with.
Connections to other articles (voices) within glossaLAB (which embraces the contents directly developed within the platform and the contents from glossaLAB's encyclopedic corpus, i.e. Systemspedia, glossariumBITri and Principia Cybernetica) need to be incorporated (you can either enter the link or express something like: "as explained in the article devoted to...."), this means you have to review the corresponding content and establish significant connections (even when you are opposing something stated in the other article).
You need to refer to the work of some relevant historical authors who have dealt with the issues concerned.
At the end of the entry, you need to include a REFERENCE section in which you list the bibliographic references you have used using APA style (see below)
Concerning the EXTENSION, the length of the texts of your contributions (entries) combined must contain at least 2500 words.
The seminar works have to be edited in the glossaLAB platform. First, they can be kept within the "Draft" namespace (which is not indexed or found through the search engines), and after they are finished and reviewed, they will be moved to the main namespace. For the edition in glossaLAB, you have to use proper typos, which are facilitated by the visual editor implemented and the edition tools provided:
Bibliographic references have to be introduced through the citation tool (in the edition toolbar), which is very easy to use. Imagine something you state is supported by a specific bibliographic document. At the end of the sentence, you click on the citation tool button. It opens up a small window to introduce the reference, in which you have to use APA style (remember that providing a link to a document or page is never enough as a bibliographic reference). It will automatically create the superindex link and list the reference with a link to the places where it's used at the bottom of the page.
Links to other glossaLAB articles, using the link button. It opens up a small window in which you start typing the name of the destination page, and it will offer you the list of pages matching the text given, or as a red link, showing that the page doesn't exist (yet).
Epigraphs/titles of sections with the correct hierarchy.
Enumeration and item lists using the proper formats.
Figures using the add-image tool and including captions.
In case you wish to enter equations or computer code, there are also tools that make it very easy.
The CITATION style is particularly relevant (pay attention to how it is referred to within the text, as referred to above, and how different types of documents are described in the Reference list, which is created automatically by the system at the end of the page). This style corresponds to the quite globally accepted APA standard.
DEADLINE for submitting your seminar work or posting the Internet contribution: last Sunday of December (for the winter semester), first Friday of June (for the summer semester), though it can be settled somehow differently according to the circumstances, check the deadline stated in the Moodle Postbox.
According to glossaLAB's copyright policy, the texts to be published in the system require passing through a similarity analysis. To that purpose and for the evaluation records, you should also hand over the paper using the following POSTBOX. For this purpose, you can directly extract the PDF of your seminar work from glossaLAB (there's a button on the left-hand menu or ctr+p usually works as well) and upload it to the HM-Moodle POSTBOX for the seminar work (remember to push the submission button).
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