Sovereignty by Personalization of Information Search: A Collective Wisdom May Influence My Knowledge

Abstract

philippe lemoisson stefano cerri What do we talk about? An experiment supporting, enhancing and measuring collective AND informal learning, in particular serendipity (human learning that is not on purpose) How? the ViewpointS Web Application (VWA) prototype  a new, collective Knowledge Graph, following the brain metaphor  First degree of Soverignity : the Knowledge Graph is local and private  Knowledge Maps assessing proximities/distances between « nodes » (agents, documents, topics …) are generated on demand  Second degree of Soverignity : personalization of information search Keywords? Learning as a Side Effect of Interactions, Collaborative and Group Learning, Personalized and Adaptive Learning Environments, Recommender Systems for Learning … discover, invent, create or imagine something important without deliberately being in quest for it. … … If I define true serendipity as the art of making an 'unsought finding', what do I mean by a 'finding'? … … I speak of a 'finding' when two or more elements (observations, hypotheses, ideas, facts, relations or insights) are combined originally, for the finder or anybody, to something new and true (science), new and useful (technology), or new and fascinating (arts). …

Information, knowledge, and human learning for chemistry: the visionary contribution of Professor Alain Krief

“…Of course, this policy can be understood but does not fit with the observation -supported by many historical examples -that most new discoveries and inventions occurred serendipitously (see, e.g., Ref. [5] ) within projects involving high risk, not planned in detail according to the current state of the art. This reality was embedded in the construction of EnCOrE as an encyclopedia supporting information, knowledge, and human learning (Figure 3, from Ref.…”

“…In retrospect, this failure led us to revise our plans: Prof. Krief and the chemists were encouraged to investigate more deeply the tools, methods, and initiatives dedicated to human learning and dissemination of scientific knowledge, particularly in chemistry, while the informaticians started another project (ViewpointS) which continues (see, e.g., Refs. [2][3][4][5][6] ). This latter project is the best testimony of the influence of the experience we gathered previously working with Prof. Krief in EnCOrE.…”

“…He adopted and reinforced the author's own vision of the requirements for successful learning and for successful progress in science -in fact, we agreed that learning, discovering, and inventing are human activities strongly related to each other (see, for instance, the subsequent work in Refs. [4][5][6] ).…”