Oral Knowledge
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Author | Tags | Primary Session | Secondary Sessions | Position Statement |
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Leila Zia | Infrastructure, Knowledge as a Service, Knowledge Equity, Languages, Oral Knowledge, Research, Strategy, Trust | Knowledge as a Service | Research, Analytics, and Machine Learning |
Title: Knowledge is our direction. What's next? Combined knowledge as a service (KAS) and knowledge equity (KE) is identified as our strategic direction (draft). We have decided to focus on knowledge in a broader sense and beyond just encyclopedic knowledge, create KE, and become the infrastructure that offers KAS. In this position paper, I offer some of my early thoughts on where we should focus our efforts to move in this strategic direction. Given the limits of word-count, I will not go through the details of research methods and techniques that can be used to address each point. KnowledgeAs the central focus of the strategic direction is knowledge, we need to arrive at a unified working definition of knowledge. English Wikipedia defines knowledge as familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something which is acquired through experience or education, by perceiving, discovering, or learning. This definition, however, is not a working definition that can help us decide what new content to include. Research on user behavior, needs, and learning patterns can help us define knowledge. Knowledge equityOur goal is to remove structural inequalities that limit our ability to represent knowledge from all people and by all people. To this end, we need to meet our users where they are. Today:
Knowledge as a serviceOur goal is to offer KAS: both in terms of the infrastructure that supports it as well as the content of it. To do this, we need to:
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