The Visual Wiki: a new metaphor for knowledge access and management

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Google Tech Talks June 4, 2008 ABSTRACT Successful knowledge management results in a competitive advantage in today's information- and knowledge-rich industries. The elaboration and integration of emerging web-based tools and services has proven suitable for collecting and organizing intellectual property. Due to an increasing information overload, information and knowledge visualization have become an effective method for representing complex bodies of knowledge in an alternative fashion by using visual languages. The focus of this research is the development of a "Visual Wiki", which combines the notion of a textual and a visual representation of knowledge. A Visual Wiki model has been proposed which provides a unified framework to design and discuss different approaches. Three prototypes of Visual Wikis have been implemented and evaluated according to the improvements to knowledge management applications that they facilitate. This is joint work with Christian Hirsch and John Grundy

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Uploaded: June 6, 2008 at 2:12 am
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kirstenlynch (Friday 11th of July 2008 01:28:08 AM)
Very interesting material. Thanks for sharing!
hirschch (Wednesday 18th of June 2008 02:57:56 PM)
For more information on one of the presented visual wikis (Thinkbase), just google 'Thinkbase'
neospeak (Wednesday 11th of June 2008 10:48:12 AM)
Very informative. Touched upon the very basic human cognitive ability of visulization and how we can utlilize this approach for improved KM.