November 3, 2004
Center of Excellence Proposal
à
White Paper on Incident Information Orb
Architecture (IIOA) à
Adi Structural Ontology Part I
à
ARDA rejection notice
(Friday, October 29, 2004) à
2005 BCNGroup
Report to the Congress, in progress
On
the possibility from Stratified Ontology Knowledge Processors
BCNGroup Founding Committee October 27, 2004
Hi Dad!
After mulling over the recent discourse among you, Tom Adi, and others, I have some ideas on how we might be able to use your combined technological work to address a key social issue in America today. As I see it, we (the people involved in this discourse) have at least two separate goals:
1) We want to finish developing and "prove" our new technologies so they (it) can become financially profitable.
2) We would like to understand, for example, how Arab-American communities in America are portrayed by academic scholars and compare this to how the members of the Arab-American communities understand themselves to be.
So, why don't we, as has been suggested, use our new technologies to look at and understand the academic and civil discourses regarding the Arab-American communities?
There are many theoretical questions wrapped in such an inquiry from my standpoint as a scholar-in-training, as well as actual social science (data collection) that needs to be done to approach it. Using our technology, relevant data can be found and vetted from two resources:
1) Past, published work from both broad communities (remembering, of course, that the communities are not mutually exclusive).
2) Forums created for the purpose of discussing the issues revolving around the role and identity of Arab-Americans in America.
Key questions these forums may address:
Creating such forums and gathering such data will not only give us socially valuable information, it will also give us an opportunity to show how our technologies are different from anything else "out there", and that the interfaces are normal-people-accessible. It short, we will have results that are easy to understand and un-ignorable.
My husband and I will be working over the next few days to find academics willing to participate in this experiment if Tom Adi and other deem it to be feasible and desirable. Is it possible for Tom Adi to find people in his community in Michigan to participate in a forum? We can start small in scope.
Also, Jay and I are interested in using our technologies to vet relevant published information (like newspaper editorials and journal articles) if this seems useful or helpful.
At the end of this experiment, to reiterate, we hope to have a great example of how our technologies can be used to study and compare complex social discourses (this is very important). We also hope to have gathered relevant data to address our important social questions in a politically useful way.
Does this sound like the beginning of a good plan?
Jenni
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