Swimming the sea of knowledge (the Concept Web?)

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how to find, navigate, recombine, and contribute to … what’s out there, though mostly focused on science and the next generation of science ‘publishing’ (in quotes, since it’ll be quite different from traditional publishing, more back in the hands of the scientists like in the old days).

A friend pointed me to this cool site called WikiProfessional, where they have these cool info navigators. A quick perusal suggests that they focus on the ‘find’ and ‘navigate’, though I think they also have a wee bit of ‘contribute’ through the addition of semantics as you navigate and annotate.

There are a ton of collaborators working on this and I dug a bit deeper into the main one, Knewco, It was on their pages that I stumbled upon the image to the right, about the Knowlet, trademarked, but spot on representing what knowledge really is: a concept with a cloud of facts, co-occurring items, with a few predicted concepts thrown in.

I like.

UPDATE: And here’s a paper that goes into the details.

I like. A lot.