Too Big to KnowDavid Weinberger Ph.D.
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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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