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1. SELECTION OF A TOPIC, DISCUSSION OPENING AND PRESENTATION
1. SELECTION OF A TOPIC, DISCUSSION OPENING AND PRESENTATION
1.1 Course held on-site
In the first seminar week you should indicate what topic(s) you are going to develop in your seminar work. Deadline: by tge end of the first seminar week.
The seminar work is mandatory, but you can increase the corresponding grade by either:
(i) OPENING & MODERATING a DISCUSSION on the topic you are going to develop your work within the SECOND WEEK of the seminar, in a time slot you have to determine with the lecturer, or
(ii) making an ONLINE presentation of your work at any time as arranged with the lecturer.
1.2 Course held on-line
The topic(s) for the seminar work should be selected within the first online sessions of the seminar. During the last phase, in December/June, each participant should present and guide a discussion on the topic(s) selected. The lecturer will determine the schedule for those presentations and discussions.
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 glossaLAB (formerly glossariumBITri). 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 that are more philosophically relevant. You can find below a (non-exhaustive) list of around 30 topics that are worth working on, classified according to the main philosophical questions they refer to. You can work on just one topic or on several ones and find the connections existing 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 assisted by the course's teacher. You need first to determine what articles (voices) are you 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). As you will see creating a new article is very straightforward, but you may discuss it with your teacher.
Your contribution needs to be properly embedded within the conceptual network of glossaLAB, therefore is important to be aware of what is already there and to establish connections with other conceptual clarifications. First of all, your topic may already be open and it may have some content. It is important to consider what is already there.
Possible Topics for the seminar work
Possible Topics for the seminar work
The quest for truth (epistemology)
Cognition | Knowledge | Observation | Perception | Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Model | Knowledge organisation | Computation | Artificial intelligence | Causation (explanation roadmaps: causal, functional, intentional)
The quest for reality (ontology)
Emergence | Complexity (organised complexity; self-organisation; levels of complexity) | Sustainable organisation (viable system) | Networks (vs Systems) | Being
The quest for well-doing (ethics)
Information ethics | Intercultural Information ethics | Sustainable Information Society | Managing Complexity | Cooperation | Security | Cyber-Subsidiarity
The quest for solving problems (methodology)
Critical theory (Critical Theory of Information) | Multidisciplinarity vs Intedisciplinarity vs Transdisciplinarity | Dialectics | Logics vs Thinking | (Deductive/Inductive/Abductive) Reasoning | Explanation roadmaps (see above)
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 information 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 (philosopher) who has 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 red linkage, showing that 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 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 in the HM-Moodle POSTBOX for the seminar work (remember to push the submission button).
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