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Intuitive Knowledge Connectivity: Design and Prototyping of Cross-Platform Knowledge Networks

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Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2016)

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Individual users are overwhelmed with a flood of data. Current big-data strategies focus mainly on organizational uses of data analytics. To address this gap, we focus on personal data management (PDM) in the era of big data and cloud computing. We are developing and testing a PDM software that enables individuals to construct a cross-platform knowledge network by semi-automatically connecting new relevant data to an existing network of interlinked digital objects. Because the cloud-based services that support our knowledge work are currently fragmented, we suggest an integrated federated platform for editing and searching the personal-knowledge context as a network. This forms a directed edge-labeled property multigraph that spans over all of the cloud-based data silos. We present a design and a proof-of-concept implementation of a PDM tool that allows the creation of a personal-knowledge network that incorporates digital objects from different cloud services.

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This research is funded by the Hasler Foundation (www.haslerstifung.ch) under the project “Intuitive Knowledge Connectivity” with grant number 15026.

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  1. Lucerne School of Information Technology, Zug-Rotkreuz, Switzerland

    Michael Kaufmann, Andreas Waldis, Patrick Siegfried & Gwendolin Wilke

  2. Institute of Information Management, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Edy Portmann

  3. Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    Matthias Hemmje

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Kaufmann, M., Waldis, A., Siegfried, P., Wilke, G., Portmann, E., Hemmje, M. (2016). Intuitive Knowledge Connectivity: Design and Prototyping of Cross-Platform Knowledge Networks. In: Lehner, F., Fteimi, N. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9983. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47650-6_27

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