Too Big to KnowDavid Weinberger Ph.D.

self@evident.comwww.JohoTheBlog.comdweinberger@twitter

Harvard Library Innovation LabCo-Director

Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Senior Researcher

Systems Integration KM Leaders Community

Dec. 18, 2012

StuffPo

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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, not his own

facts.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, not his own

facts.

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, not his own

facts.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, not his own

facts.

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

There is one knowledge. There is one knowledge.

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Knowledge will bring us

together.

Knowledge will bring us

together.

What knowledge was

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Birds

Invertebrates

Plants

Living things

Vertebrates

Reptiles

Animals

Mammals

CertifiedAnswer

STOPBeliefPoint

(c) Abelardo Morell

Networked science(cc) Howzey @ Flickr

The Net is exposing a long-hidden truth

We

Don’t

Agree

.The Net is exposing a long-hidden truth

Fur?

Fur?

Bird beak??

Bird beak??EGGS???EGGS??? Four

feet?Four feet?

Names

Taxonomies

ScientistScientistScientistPlatypusPlatypus

watermolewatermole

Ornithorhynchus paradoxusOrnithorhynchus paradoxus

EOL.org

Social learning(cc) mizzD @ flickr.com

Thesis

Software developers now live

in the fastest, most efficient and effective ecosystem for rapid learning that ever

existed

Lessons from Developers

Humility & Generosity

Iteration

Public learning

Photos: Abundance without order

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Birds

Invertebrates

Plants

Living things

Vertebrates

Reptiles

Animals

Mammals

Red

1942

coiff

Rosie the Riveter

Red

1942

coiff

Rosie the Riveter

Red

1942

coiff

Rosie the Riveter

Messiness scales

meaning

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Authority

Library as platform(cc) MandoLux @ flickr.com

Platform vs. Portal

Tools

People

Services

Worksideas

Data Metadata

1.

2.

3.

Ubiquitous portal access

Social objects > networks

Open innovation

People Worksideas1.

Tools Services

End-user services

Developer building blocks

Developer tools

2.

Data Metadata

Backends are Web-starts

Support standards

Share our work

Rethink privacy

3.

Locality enables Difference

What knowledge was

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Curated

Scarce

Settled

Orderly

Discrete

inclusive

Unsettled

Overwhelming

messy

Linked

Networked knowledge may or may not be true-er about the

world, but it is true-er about human

knowing.

Thank you.Thank you.

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