#KnowledgeSystems

Edelruth In The Wrong TimelineEdelruth@mastodon.online
2025-07-07

@craig

I just found you, because someone else used the hashtag #KnowledgeSystems and I was already diving down new-to-me books/authors rabbit holes, when the hash grabbed my attention.
(That someone is @onoptikon )

I love your ideas in the post above. My tbr pile is going to be shocked!

Although, I actually got here from a link in a different post of yours that had used the knowledge systems hashtag. Another executed idea that I loved.

Craig Constantinecraig@constantine.name
2025-05-14

One slip at a time

This morning I was working on adding some quotes to the ‘ol collection. I have a little box with the most-recent quotes, blank 3×5 cards and other little office-supply-ish things. Every now and then I pick up a bunch of those new quotes and move them back into these boxes. Today I realized, the second of these boxes is now nearly full—it seems like only yesterday that I moved the first few inches of cards (like ~400) into the first box. Time to order more of these storage boxes!

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#CollectingQuotes #KnowledgeSystems #ShowYourWork #Slips

Engineers HeavenEngineersHeaven
2025-04-10

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2024-08-16

OnlineFirst - "Storytelling dreams and life: Traveling across worlds in the Amazon of Ecuador" by María Belén Noroña:

#Storytelling #IndigenousWomen #DecolonizingEducation #KnowledgeSystems #EmpoweringMarginalizedVoices

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/

Craig Constantinecraig@constantine.name
2024-08-12

Taking notes on the books I read was a great start, but it wasn’t enough. It did me no good to leave those notes sitting in a software program like a musty filing cabinet in the basement, never to see the light of day again.

I realized if I wanted to benefit from my reading, I needed to engage with the books I read on a much deeper level. I needed to make something out of them. Otherwise, I would continue to passively consume information with no lasting memory of what I learned.

~ Tiago Forte, from The Ultimate Guide to Summarizing Books

Has anyone noticed that’s what I’m attempting to do with all my blogging and writing? Shirley, that’s obvious. (It’s not obvious, and don’t call me Shirley.)

I’ve always deeply loved movies. I was raised (on hose water and neglect) in the era when going to a movie was special. Remember when you had to use the phone (with a rotary dial, mounted on the wall) to call the theatre and listen to a looooong recording detailing what was playing and when? I could tell you so so so many stories about going to the movies. In more recent issues of 7 for Sunday, I’m feeling less inclined to stomp down the inside-joke movie references. If you find them even half as enjoyable to read, as I do to write them, then we’re both better off. I’m pretty sure that my recalling and retelling of all those stories about and around movies makes the entire movie experience more fun; yes the experience during the movie, but also all the stuff around it too.

No, I’ve not lost my own plot. Forte’s point about how to benefit from what one reads is the same thing. If you want to hold on to whatever it was that you’ve gotten from a book… you have to integrate it with the rest of your ongoing, lived experience. You have to go around telling the story of who gave you the book, what the book means to you in the context of your entire life, and what you think your interlocutor might get from it (like this, this, this, this, this, this or… you get my point.)

And as soon as you realize that’s fun for movies, and great for books, you should wonder if it could be a super-power for self-improvement if you could share the contents of your mind, with yourself, in that same fashion. Two suggestions: Start journaling immediately after reading this issue of 7 for Sunday, so you can then begin in a year, to regularly review your journals.

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https://constantine.name/2024/08/12/filed-and-lost/

#Books #Film #Journaling #KnowledgeSystems #SelfImprovement #TiagoForte

2023-10-13

Sometimes, other people have a different model of a similar area of knowledge. They know what it is to be them, which isn't the same as being you, but it might have some of the same concepts or relationships. If I can find a way of speaking to both of you using the same words, I've done my job.

If I can't find that way, maybe I can find a way of translating the words between you where they have a connection -- even if it's not perfect.

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#SemanticWeb #RDF #KnowledgeSystems #KnowledgeGraphs

2023-10-13

As an ontologist, it's my job to understand how you think about these things, and to record your mental model in a way that others can use it to represent things in a similar way.

I should be able to put your mental model into a form that can be read, and written, by other people and by computers, and by other people using computers.

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#SemanticWeb #RDF #Knowledge #KnowledgeSystems #KnowledgeGraphs

2023-10-13

I often describe myself as an #ontologist, but what does that mean? Well...

Everyone's an expert in _something_. Even if it's the current cast of Love Island, or simply what it is to be you.

You have a mental model of that expertise. You think about things in a certain way. You may give those thoughts names. You may just concern yourself with the relationships involved, or how you classify things.

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#SemanticWeb #RDF #Knowledge #KnowledgeSystems #KnowledgeGraphs

2023-10-04

Vandana Shiva's _Monocultures of the Mind_ (in _The Vandana Shiva Reader_ too) has charts(?) that I want to think about. I start re-making charts with Racket's pict feel urged to make changes. Coding the views still probably takes too much time, but each new attempt teaches me something, and I develop more utilities... Just this chart could become a slide presentation..
codeberg.org/bsmall2/view-tabl
#VandanaShiva #KnowledgeSystems #PrimaryPeople's #AgroEcology vs. #IndustrialForestry #BigAg

A screenshot of a chart from the Vandana Shiva Reader. The chart is on a page in _Monocultures of the Mind_. The chart shows how, with Local Knowledge Systems the Forests provide food directly as well as providing water, fodder, and fertilizer for Agriculture. With "Dominant Knowledge Systems"(Industrial or Extractivist approaches) Forests are exploited to mass-produce only wood so the food relationship is a "disappeared space." The spaces between Forests and Agriculture, where water, fodder and fertilizer are shared, these spaces are also lost. I guess the Forest's fertilizer is replaced with industrial chemical inputs so not as many Pulses(beans) are produced so there is one less production from Agriculture too. An abundance of cereals is replaced by only wheat and rice....This is a a version of Vandana Shiva's chart in _Monocultures of the Mind_. While coding the view with Racket's pict I thought of Michiko Ishimure's sentences about people being cut off from the land of their birth and nurture. And for now it seems easer to place X-marks ("flash" picts) over text and arrow-lines to show the lost relationships. While there is a great diversity of productions fomr the Local Land System of Diveristy, The Indusutrial Extractivist system reduces products to just Wood and Oilseeds along with Wheat&Rice. The great diversity of food form the forest, the variety of pulses and cereals is lost when the Forest is cut off from Agriculture and Households. The code to produce this view is availabe from thei git repository linked in the post.
Craig Constantinecraig@constantine.name
2023-01-03

What is important in knowledge is not quantity, but quality. It is important to know what knowledge is significant, what is less so, and what is trivial.

~ Leo Tolstoy

#knowledge-systems #leo-tolstoy #quotes

https://constantine.name/2023/01/03/knowledge-2/

2022-05-07

I've reorganized my gmail filters/labels around common terms to sort email, including popular hits like 🎶:

• 🧾 receipt OR your order
• 🕵🏻‍♀️ any mention of "password"
• 📰 unsubscribe OR subscription or subscribe
• 💬 twitter OR facebook

less strain to find messages this way

#KnowledgeSystems

2022-05-01

I like to say that tech problems are actually just management problems. I think that's true with my note system too.

I'm use Obsidian to organize all my reference notes and writing and everything else. It keeps coming back to management (aka me) problems.

Using standards for writing notes when I create them has a bigger impact than throwing hashtags and links together hoping that the software will fix it.

#KnowledgeSystems #Obsidian

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