ClaiMakerKnowledge Media Institute

Open University, UK

Illustrative slides showing how knowledge claims can be made between web resources

ClaiMaker: Making scholarly claims on the semantic Web (interpretive connections

between sources)

improves on

How can we express the (contestable) view that the work reported in Document B improves on a proposal in Document A?

Document A

Document B

Document A:

A key passage

In ClaiMaker, the analyst creates and links a new concept to Document A that encapsulates the key passage

Document A:

Another key passage of interest

In ClaiMaker, the analyst has now added two concepts to Document A

Once the analyst has added concepts for Document B (or perhaps someone else has already added them), the connection between them can be made.

ClaiMaker provides a menu-based interface offering a set of relational types based on scholarly argumentation

ClaiMaker provides novel services to review the claims that have been made in the literature: What documents agree with Document A?

ClaiMaker provides novel services to review the claims that have been made in the literature: What links have been made to and from Document A ?

Visualizing the ‘lineage’ (intellectual history) of the top concept Tool provides zooming, rotation, focusing and filtering

Interactive visualization in Ceryle (KMi, Open U., UK), extending TouchGraph(Alex Shapiro)

Visualizing Argumentation (2002, in press), Springer

www.VisualizingArgumentation.info

Argument mapping for scholarly publishing, scientific and public policy debates, education, teamwork, and organisational memory

Afterword: Doug Engelbart