I take the opportunity of this "on-line volunteering" thread to recall
people of a "potential" collaborative project at:
www.universimmedia.com/semantopic.htm
This project is a Topic-Map-like data base of the semantic web universe at
large: people, projects, tools, events, concepts ... BTW I have used many
valuable announcements on this list as a data mining source for many
semantopic links.
It tries to build on new concepts for complex knowledge organization through
directories of concepts and resources, involving more refined principles
than "one tree for all" à la dmoz. In the present state, it combines both
multi hierachical indexing (trying to avoid the usual hierarchical
mismatches found in most directories, where universals and individuals
hierarchies are not clearly distinct) and topic-associations to ensure
multidimensional navigation.
The "potential" collaborative aspect is meaning not many collaborators have
volunteered so far, but are welcome at any moment.
Please feel free to send back comments or suggest links that you would like
to see appear in it.
Bernard
Bernard Vatant
bernard.vatant@mondeca.com
Mondeca - "Making Sense of Content"
www.mondeca.com
----- Message d'origine -----
De : "Grant Bowman" <grantbow@svpal.org>
À : <unrev-ii@yahoogroups.com>
Envoyé : lundi 7 mai 2001 09:58
Objet : [unrev-II] Online volunteering article
> This is an article about "distributed human projects." The
> http://www.dmoz.org yahoo-like directory is one of them with 34,000
> editors participating.
>
> Mind Over Matter: Online volunteers donate their brainpower for
> interests of science
>
> http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/867163
>
> A few quotes:
>
> "Open Mind volunteers can take part in more than 25 online activities to
> create a sort of common-sense database, feeding information into a
> computer based on tasks that range from the straightforward (listing
> objects that appear in a picture) to the thoughtful (teaching the
> computer about people's goals and desires). Eventually a computer with
> a modicum of common sense could be used for a variety of purposes,
> including vastly improved Web searching."
>
> "These collaborations are widely viewed as the next step in
> distributed-computing projects, which break down complex computations
> into many smaller tasks that are then parceled out via the Net to
> volunteers' computers. The PCs work on the tasks when idle. Such
> projects have become quite common, attracting millions of volunteers to
> endeavors like scanning radio-telescope signals for alien messages and
> cracking data-encryption codes."
>
> "I've estimated that something like 100 million mouse clicks have been
> wasted on Solitaire," Stork said. "Instead of just playing a game, Web
> volunteers could be helping science or contributing to the world's
> largest software endeavor."
>
> --
> -- Grant Bowman <grantbow@svpal.org>
>
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