Just for fun, I called Doug to see if he could shed light on the definitions
of these terms. Here's what I got:
Hyperdocument: "The knowledge container. No one says it has to be a file,
any container."
Dynamic Knowledge Repository: "The handbook, the conversations and
annotations,
the contents. Dynamically up to date representing the state of the
repository.
If you want more depth, you can trace back and find the evolution of
that in
the record."
OHS : "A toolset with the structure and properties of the knowledge
containers plus the functions that you can execute on them, including
viewing,
traveling, linking, editing, etc. Includes auxilliary languages,
compilers, tools,
user interface. Does not include the contents of documents itself,
only how you structure and operate on them."
HyperScope: "Part of the OHS, that you can implement early and get
immediate
utility in the context of legacy files. As it evolves to add more
features
(e.g. backlinking, editing), it becomes a bigger part of the OHS."
OHS to me now seems almost like the term "MS Windows", which contains the
operating
system, the look and feel, the philosophy, as well as a set of included
tools such
as the web browser or media player. But it appears OHS does not represent
the content
of the knowledge repository or containers (documents).
Doug was thrilled to be asked about it and was happy that we are having
dialogs
about this because he emphasized how working through terms is an essential
part
of cooperative knowledge work.
-- Adam
ps: Does reply work better not that I'm not sending as HTML?
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Armstrong [mailto:eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 4:46 PM
To: unrev-II@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [unrev-II] Re: Tuesday's meeting
Thanks for looking into that, Adam.
Good to know that I hadn't just missed something obvious.
Consistent terminology makes sense. It's the only tool we
have to attack the problem with.
I am totally in love with:
HyperScope -- the viewer
HyperDocument -- the thing viewed (a "slice" taken
from a repository)
Open HyperDocument Repository -- where they are kept
OHS: HyperScope + OHR + HyperDocuments
At the moment, I continue to reserve the term "DKR" for
future developments. Jack and Howard are constructing
the ontology for the OHS, and we need that. But later on
they are going to want to build bigger and better
ontologies to solve even deeper problems (yes?).
I know that the OHS as currently envisioned will solve
a lot of problems, and provide us with the ability to
carry on intelligent, far-ranging discussions that can
eventually "coalesce" to reach one or more conclusions.
I'm not yet convinced, however, that it will give Jack
and Howard *all* the tools they need to play with
bigger and better ontologies -- to construct them,
operate on them, and use them to deal with information
in meaningful ways. Much as I want to see the capability
come into existence, it is not all clear to me that the
current design will be capable of doing that.
So I tend to use DKR for that still-nebulous thing we
hope to get to sometime downstream. In many ways, it
is a label for my ignorance -- for all the things I
have to understand about what we need, and about how
to provide them. (The difficulty I have in following
ontology-related discussions convinces me that the
system I understand (the OHS) is unlikely to qualify
as a DKR.)
[BTW: When I reply to your messages, the automatic
quoting feature does not seem to work. Perhaps because
it is in HTML form? Or do you use IE, and it is doing
something that is incompatible with Netscape's quoting
mechansim?]
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