Kim H. Veltman, Opening Keynote: of Certain Knowledge, Levels of Knowledge and Interfaces. Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage (HCITOCH 2016). Turin, 7-9 September, 2016: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Abstract Search Engines rely on random for searching. Libraries and memory institutions use catalogues of authors and titles; key words in titles, as well as controlled vocabularies in classification systems, and thesauri. The goal is to find an item in the collection ranging from a book or article to manuscripts, letters, newspapers, maps, or other media. These tools are directed at identifying and locating objects with minimal hints about their contents. These important aids need to be complemented by future tools. This paper explores new possibilities introduced though digital (electronic) versions of full contents of collections. One is the potential of searching the complete contents of these materials. This invites new links to sources and implies a need for different levels of searching. In addition, different means of certain knowledge could be identified and used as search criteria. Another entails the possibility of different levels of knowledge relating to a given text. Implicit is a new approach to texts, whereby one goes beyond searching for individual words. Texts can have verbal, numerical and geometrical levels. These different levels introduce a whole range of potential new insights through matrices of knowledge connections. They introduce a vision of an internet of knowledge and wisdom, that is more enduring than the current trends towards the internets of the opinions, habits, services, things, experiences military, and spying. Implicit is a new history of the Internet and ultimately a new history of knowledge, which entails shifts from an unchanging to a changing world, in the role of universals and particulars and of the meaning of concepts. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Kim H. Veltman, Opening Keynote: of Certain Knowledge, Levels of Knowledge and Interfaces. Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage (HCITOCH 2016). Turin, 7-9 September, 2016: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Abstract Search Engines rely on random for searching. Libraries and memory institutions use catalogues of authors and titles; key words in titles, as well as controlled vocabularies in classification systems, and thesauri. The goal is to find an item in the collection ranging from a book or article to manuscripts, letters, newspapers, maps, or other media. These tools are directed at identifying and locating objects with minimal hints about their contents. These important aids need to be complemented by future tools. This paper explores new possibilities introduced though digital (electronic) versions of full contents of collections. One is the potential of searching the complete contents of these materials. This invites new links to sources and implies a need for different levels of searching. In addition, different means of certain knowledge could be identified and used as search criteria. Another entails the possibility of different levels of knowledge relating to a given text. Implicit is a new approach to texts, whereby one goes beyond searching for individual words. Texts can have verbal, numerical and geometrical levels. These different levels introduce a whole range of potential new insights through matrices of knowledge connections. They introduce a vision of an internet of knowledge and wisdom, that is more enduring than the current trends towards the internets of the opinions, habits, services, things, experiences military, and spying. Implicit is a new history of the Internet and ultimately a new history of knowledge, which entails shifts from an unchanging to a changing world, in the role of universals and particulars and of the meaning of concepts. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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