Mathemagenic

An overview of interesting ideas during conferences I visited. Organised by themes.

[I'm going to work on it next couple of days. Links and updates will follow. Be patient, please.]

Conferences:

• ED-MEDIA04, Lugano, Switzerland, 23-26 June
• I-KNOW 04, Graz, Austria, 30 June - 2 July
• BlogWalk 3.0, Vienna, Austria, 4 July
• BlogTalk 2.0, Vienna, Austria, 5-6 July
• MILK forum, Milan, Italy, 9 July

Themes (note: there is something on weblogs in each of them :)

• Trip report (1): blogs and wikis implemented
• Trip report (2): presence
• Trip report (3): knowledge/community mapping
• Trip report (4): various on weblogs
• Trip report (5): conference backchannelling

Notes:

ED-MEDIA04 proceedings are offline (CD). The best way to get more is to Google/contact the authors.

I-KNOW 04 proceedings are offline (paper). I link to papers/presentations if authors provided them online. Some of the presentations will be online at the conference web-site (hopefully soon enough). I'll try to go back and to link to them, otherwise check links to the program next to each reference.

BlogWalk 3.0 didn't have any proceeding or presentations, just Open Space discussion. I have only brief notes which wouldn't help you much. Notes of other people could be found at BlogWalk channel. The best way to find out what we did there is to read blog posts, ask participants or be there next time :)

BlogTalk 2.0 is covered online pretty well, but most of the papers are not ready (deadline is early September). I tried to link as much as possible, but I guess there is more online. BlogTalkViennaNotes wiki pages give good impression about sessions and should have more links if people are good enough to add them :) Many weblogs posts could be found via BlogTalk channel as well. Or Google is always there for you :)))

MILK forum: most of the presentations are online. I tried to provide an overview in my post, otherwise check MILK web-site.

Ideas and presentations from conferences I visited, on community/knowledge mapping (see other themes).  

It's difficult to draw the line between community and knowledge mapping: in most cases you want to know not only who is there and what they are talking about, but more precisely who knows what. The two themes are here just for an indication of where most effort goes in a specific case.

Community mapping

SELaKT - Social Network Analysis as a method for expert localisation and sustainable knowledge transfer by Tobias Mueller-Prothmann and Ina Finke at I-KNOW

• abstract (and link to full-text if you are ready to pay), presentation
• really interesting presentation that I managed to miss; on SNA applied in KM context

Blogosphere community formation, structure and visualization by Juan J. Merelo, Beatriz Prieto, Fernando Tricas at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, presentation (OpenOffice format which I wasn't able to open), wiki notes
• SNA (+tools) overview, results of analysis of Spanish weblogs 
• if you are into SNA on weblogs talk to these guys!

Applying Social Network Analysis to a small Weblog Community: Hubs, Power Laws, the Ego Effect and the Evolution of Social Networks by Michael Schuster

• abstract, wiki notes
• bit of theory + case: community dynamics in (relatively closed) (relatively small) weblog community

Knowledge mapping

Supporting drug discovery research through knowledge modelling and integration by Edy S. Liongosari, Anatole V. Gershman & Mitu Singh at I-KNOW KM/learning track

• nothing is online so far, but you can check older presentation (3.1MB!) that gives an idea or check other publications
• interesting work on creating interconnected maps based on data from different sources...

Shared Conceptualizations in Weblogs by Anjo Anjewierden, Rogier Brussee and me

• abstract, presentation, wiki notes, my weblog post with incoming links
• generating networks of keywords (~conceptualisations) from weblog data

Ideas from MILK: multimedia interactions for learning and knowing project

• community knowledge maps on large screens integrated with contact/presence awareness

Ontologies, topic maps, expert profiling, visualisations, etc.

Note: there was a lot on these topics at I-KNOW, check the program and special track on Semantic Web and Knowledge Discovery (many presentations are online).

Selected presentations (didn't go personally to most of them!), all links go to .pdf files

• An Investigation into Sharing Metadata: “I’m not thinking what you are thinking” 
• A Comprehensive Guideline for Building a Domain Ontology from Scratch
• Pervasive Knowledge Discovery: Continuous lifelong learning by matching needs, requirements and resources
• Discourse Visualization Strategies for a Comprehensive Medial Analysis of Cultural Science Communities
• A Case Study in Supporting Distributed, Loosely-controlled and evolvInG Engineering of oNTologies (DILIGENT)

This post also appears on channels BlogTalk and weblog research

Ideas and presentations from conferences I visited, somehow connected with the theme of presense (see other themes).

From examples to theory

The blog as an immersive space: Moblogging Jokkmokk 2004 by Stephanie Hendrick and Therese Örnberg at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, presentation, handout, notes by Stephanie Hendrick, Therese Oernberg, wiki notes
• bringing theory to analyse presence and co-presence in blogs, something that brings bloggers into a shared space
• event blogging

'Live'-writing: weblogs and the coverage of reality by Lisbeth Klastrup at BlogTalk

• abstract, wiki notes
• blogging as a reality show: what makes it that way?

Insights for tools

Ideas from MILK: multimedia interactions for learning and knowing project

• co-presense over multiple environments: desktop, mobile, large screens

Weblogs and Location, beyond the limits of physical and virtual space by Mikel Maron at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, wiki notes
• geoblogging

This post also appears on channels BlogTalk and weblog research

Ideas and presentations about implementations of weblogs and wikis from conferences I visited (see other themes). These are the highlights grouped in themes (relevant for our research); I'll try to link to full sources as much as possible.

Weblog imlementations in corporate settings

Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge Workers' Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing by Martin Röll at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, presentation with notes, draft version of paper, wiki notes, Martin's post
• conceptual ideas on connections between personal knowledge management and organisational KM; weblog in the context

Informal, joined up knowledge sharing using connected weblogs in pursuit of Mental Health service improvement by Lee Bryant at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, presentation, wiki notes, post by Lee with summary and links to people who wrote about it 
• bonus: Stephanie Booth and Lee on the "Lee Bryant notetaking experiment"
• case study: 18-month knowledge community development project with the National Institute for Mental Health in England
• best of all: full of ideas, tricks and lessons learnt!

Using Weblogs as Project Management Tools in innovative projects by Michael Schuster at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, presentation, wiki notes
• case study: multi-author project weblog with students for real-life project => used as discussion board, not very interactive, topics not used

Enhancing Blogs with a dual interaction design by Brigitte Roemmer-Nossek at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, wiki notes
• case study: virtual communication among a class of trainees and among their coaches during on-the-job training
• results
  • coaches didn't expept the tool (not many, mainly to communicate with trainees, but not between each other), trainees did
  • weblogs worked better than discussion forum and chat in two previous cases

Learning from weblogs of others (re: weblog apprenticeship)

Legitimised theft: Distributed apprenticeship in weblog networks, our own work, presented at I-KNOW KM/learning track 

• paper, presentation
• conceptual framework, "public weblogs" case and possible limitations of implementing in companies

Using weblogs for eliciting new experiences and creating learning elements for experienced-based information systems by Gabriela Avram, Eric Ras, Stephan Weibelzahl, presented at I-KNOW KM/learning track

• Gabriela, is anything online?
• a case of weblog implementation in a company
• study of how weblog posts could be useful as resources for (more) formal learning programs => yes, they are useful

Collective blogging from the view of a context-oriented understanding of knowledge by Markus Glötzel at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, wiki notes
• a case of weblog implementation
• study of how people contextualise observations through blogging and what others can learn from it => weblogs allowed totally exterior person to construct narrative based on what information had been stored in the weblogs

Beyond webpublishing: a journey into reading... lurking... learning... - my presentation at EdMedia symposium on weblogs and learning

• presentation; no paper, but I'll be writing on it coming months
• conceptual framework for analysing learning effects of weblog reading: weblog networks as social ecosystems as slides + lurking/legitimate peripheral participation + implicit learning

Weblogs in educational settings

Seeding conversational learning environments: Running a course on personal webpublishing and weblogs by Sebastian Fiedler at BlogTalk 2.0

• wiki notes
• related presentations at EdMedia symposium on weblogs and learning and I-Know/Hybrid learning track, but nothing is online (Sebastian?)

Don't remember the title, but it was interesting by Adrian Miles at EdMedia symposium on weblogs and learning

• is anything online? I could find only general notes on symposium

Blogging as a dynamic, transformative medium in the writing classroom of an American Liberals Arts College by Barbara Ganley at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, presentation, wiki notes, notes by Barbara (before the conference, most detailed)

Blogging in higher education: 10 thoughts/lessons by Tom de Bruyne at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, presentation, wiki notes

Weblogs in journalism

Blog to work: blogging and journalism by Jane Perrone at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, wiki notes
• on experiences writing weblogs for Guardian Unlimited: personal blogging vs. blogging for work; role of weblogs in news coverage

From weblogs to wikis

Bottom up Knowledge Management with Weblogs and SnipSnap by Stephan J. Schmidt & Matthias L. Jugel

• abstract, presentation, wiki notes
• conceptual stuff on bottom-up KM
• use of SnipSnap (integrated weblog/wiki solution) in Fraunhofer (not much about it in the presentation, but I guess they will tell you stories if you ask :)

Roughing up processes the Wiki Way - Knowledge communities in the context of work and learning processes by Frank Fuchs-Kittowski, David Fuhr, André Köhler at I-KNOW KM/learning track 

• hope presentation will be online soon
• one more case of wiki implementation in Fraunhofer, this time in connection with formal learning program

This post also appears on channels BlogTalk and weblog research