Yesterday a colleague passed on a link to a wonderfully thoughtful journal article: Knowledge Creation Platforms: The Next Step after Web-Scale Discovery, by Carl Grant, whom I am now following on Twitter.
In this piece, Carl brings us up to speed with a brief history of how technology has gotten us (libraries) to our current search boxes and strategies, and then suggests we've lost the war with Google, so we'd better start focusing on something better.
"How can we add such compelling value to the life of our users that they will reaach out to us first in some aspect of their daily work/life flows centering around knowledge?"
He then goes on to describe what he calls the Knowledge Creation Platform, and you should really go read the article yourself to learn what he has in mind.
My only beef is that the article seems to end a few pages early, without pointing out the final solution; what product do I install or buy that does this now?!? 😉
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2 Responses to “Knowledge Creation Platforms – what a wonderful start to a story”
Hi. As the author of the article, I note your comment above and while I indicated in the title it comes after what we have today in Web-scale Discovery, I see now that the the article probably needed to be much clearer in the conclusion that what I’m proposing is that we need to build this platform. I’d really like to see us do this as a collaborative effort and as an open source project. Writing the article was to seed the idea that we need this technology. I hope to do a follow-up article talking about how we actually get there.
I deeply appreciate your reading the article, your positive and constructive comments. Thanks.
Carl
Carl, my final comment was actually meant to be tongue-in-cheek, as I’m aware this doesn’t exist yet; it was just wishful thinking. Really glad to hear you’ve got more ideas on the subject, and I’d love to help in any way I can!