James Burke's Knowledge Web overview

http://k-web.org Demo of basic function of open source knowledge exploration software based on PBS/Discovery Connections series. Much more information at http://k-web.org

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Howto & Style

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• james
• burke
• education
• visualization

[patmck13]

Well Burke was into six degrees long before Bacon, though we have jokingly called kweb six degrees of Francis Bacon ;)

[rzmonk76]

bringing us closer and closer to Neal Stephenson's book "The Diamond Age"

[patmck13]

Yes, Royal Society (central to the new trilogy) is well represented in K-web; and Snow Crash got me interested in educational potential of VR as well.

[Architectonic01]

Maybe we just need to overlay this over Wikipedia.

[Hermanhusband]

OK, I've read the comments and seen the website... The timing is pretty telling. This idea was being put together in the years leading up to 2006... Wiki and other sites were really coming on strong in those years. This idea simply got overtaken by reality. It's a great idea, but it was top-down info flow, from expert to masses, and that model is dead. By the time they turned around good, their great idea had been created by the masses, and was edited by the same, for free... So they ditched it

[Hermanhusband]

I'm sorry? Why is this different that jumping around Wiki using hyperlinks? The graphic linkage maps are nice, but they don't show the quality of the links, only the links, which doesn't give context, just raw connections. Also, is it just me, or when you search for Burke's project, is it particularly devoid of useful info or quality web-sites. I went to the K-website and found it sparse indeed. There was immediate link to the linkage maps. I'm sorry, but shouldn't Burke's stuff be hotter?

[MarcLT1]

Does this mean k-web still intends to work the same with the move to freebase? must be taking ages to populate this database accurately but the best of luck with the project.

[ZachariasClub]

@persianlor well... maybe, but things have changed so fast, it could still be in production...

[Maximara]

@CHANNELOMD Sadly not much has seemed to have happened. I would have though it would a lot further along.

[persianlor]

So I'm guessing this project is dead. I've gone to the site...and there's nothing there really. Nothing like burke seems to be describing. So is this series idea dead? I hope it's not...but it seems like there just isn't any information on it, since 2006. 4 years is a loooong time. So is this project DEAD?

[MRCAB]

Three years is a long time, I suppose. Really, all they'd have to do is re-upload their original video source and replace this with that.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

Yes it is odd that the KWeb site itself links to a low-quality video on youtube. Wouldn't James and crew have access to higher quality video??

[CHANNELOMD]

ha ha ha