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KNotations :: Documentation and development plans from the KnowNet development team Weblog 84 entries 23-June-2006 1 authors
show or hide details for this item noted: c-Learning - knotes - planned support for collaborative negotiation of categories Blog Entry 0 replies1 resource 21-January-2005 Mike Malloch
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c-Learning - knotes - planned support for collaborative negotiation of categories
I've just posted to my other blog about a potentially powerful new idea for knotes: a system allowing all categories to be (cross) discussable, and for users and the content they generate to grow the categorical structures best suited to their tasks.

I just figured out something that makes me quite excited. Experience has taught me that a good resource repository requires a means for the social negotiation of the classification conventions or taxonomies to be used, but this is an issue I have not tried to do anything about for 6 years. After some head-scratching about bending existing technology into supporting some special activities for the NGRF and SIGOSSEE communities, I realised that knotes can quickly be adapted to make all categories inherently (cross)-discussable, and to provide an interface for the social negotiation of a categorical structure!

c-Learning - knotes - planned support for collaborative negotiation of categories

I'll be posting here in KNotations on this issue as we get the details sorted out.

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