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Saturday, December 18, 2004

The BCNGroup Beadgames

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Center of Excellence Proposal à 

 White Paper on Incident Information Orb Architecture (IIOA) à

Types of Ontology for Crisis Management à

   Adi Structural Ontology Part I  à

Cubicon language description à

Orb Notational Paper  à

 

 

On market forces and the

Knowledge Sharing Foundation concept

 

 

 

BCNGroup community,

 

We should talk about how to carefully evaluate real capabilities in the context of web services and XML/OWL practices.  The nature of current OntologyStream contracting requires that a non-objective evaluation be based on business alliances - since funding and program management so dominates decisions as to what gets built. 

 

We observe that the market for IT services is well defined by a set of polemics [174].  A polemic is an argument that is made based on a deception.  These polemics create a poor understanding of the real problems in the computer-based management of human knowledge.  The polemics extend beyond the misrepresentations of Artificial Intelligence claims.  The BCNGroup is dedicated to changing this situation by reintroducing natural science into information science.

 

Established IT consulting corporations have not fully address critical limiting issues such as reconciliation of terminology in knowledge management involving multiple points of view and changes in the social discourse.  

 

An alternative exists to the current IT practices.

 

The Knowledge Sharing Foundation concept is based on an open intellectual property plus open source concept where a single payer, the federal government(s), removes the business interest from the evaluation and evolution of technology.

 

The planning process for the National Project is predicated on the assumption that the rapid evolution of knowledge technologies will soon occur.

 

The planning of the National Project calls for 1.2 Billion in expenditures (over five years), a very small part of the federal budget.  The key element is a K-12 curriculum supporting a common and public understanding of human knowledge in the context of social use of information science. 

 

We call for the re-programming of the anticipated 6 Billion that the federal government now plans, based on past precedent, to spend directly into universities in support of academic computer science. 

 

The Semantic Web capabilities simply do not, often, acknowledge the difference between what computers can do on their own and what is needed from human awareness.  Berners Lee has stressed the "human side" of the "two sided Semantic Web, but many academics stress the notion that the whole “thing” is too difficult to understand except by a few elite individuals. 

 

This work does not, in our opinion, show knowledge of properly grounded cognitive science or social science. 

 

We say, let the free markets decide and we claim that the IT marketplace is not now free from monopoly.