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

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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[matteusmauritz]

Why didn't he use more visualizations instead of all the bullet lists and screen dumps? He even explains the visual wiki model in a bullet list. Incredible.

[VirianFlux]

it's like he has never heard of Visual Language

[inspiredeye]

Where's the beef? Give us some examples, show a demo, this is LAME!

[VirianFlux]

yeah it's not very visual. what does he think he is doing?

[matteusmauritz]

And yes a screen dump is technically a visualization, but it doesn't really explain anything, it's just an example of what should be explained, preferably by a visualization, the what, the why and how of it all. All these bullet lists... Really, it couldn't have been done in any other way? In a presentation on the advantages of visualizations? Incredible. And incredibly boring.

[ruthmagdalen]

Thanks for cue on Thinkbase.

[kirstenlynch]

Very interesting material. Thanks for sharing!

[hirschch]

For more information on one of the presented visual wikis (Thinkbase), just google 'Thinkbase'

[neospeak]

Very informative. Touched upon the very basic human cognitive ability of visulization and how we can utlilize this approach for improved KM.