Internal:Speakers/EK1
see also EK2
EK1: Eugene Kim
Title: "Battling the Borg: The case for tool interoperability" (ID EK1)
- Language: English | License: Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share-Alike License
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- type: 1 Presentations (others perhaps as well)
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Author[s]: ChrisDent, EugeneEricKim.
- Contact: [see also EK2. OTRS]
- Contacted by: SJ
- (From: | available days: This is for the hacking days, or perhaps thursday.)
We propose one or two presentations to explore the technical, procedural and social discoveries learned from the development of a system called PurpleNumbers. PurpleNumbers provide a way for referencing, accessing and reusing content on the Internet at a more granular level than the page or document. The Purple Numbers concept has been integrated into many tools and situations (see examples below) but has seen its most complete expression (thus far) in a wiki called PurpleWiki. (1XL)
One presentation (if there are two, or one half of one) will explain what purple numbers are, where they come from, what they can do and how they do it through demonstration of existing tools and environments. The motivation for purple numbers is the belief that if you put handles on things that both computers and people can manipulate, you increase opportunities for use and manipulation. The Internet has allowed people to access documents anywhere. Purple Numbers allow people to reach inside. (1XM)
The second presentation will discuss what we've learned from developing PurpleWiki: general advice for creating collaborative tools, what we'd like to do in the future, how purple numbers might fit into the WikiMedia universe, and advice for people who may wish to create purple numbering systems of their own. After nearly three years of work with PurpleWiki and PurpleNumbers we know that it is better to figure out ways to make your tools interoperate than it is to add functionality within your tool. Many collaborative tools share a set of metaphors which can be used to create a conceptual framework that forms the basis for interoperability. [1]
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Status information in the templates is not up to date. Please see Internal:Speakers/Categories for final status information.
- accept: PD, SJ (see new note)
- reject: AB (I don't see the point and those purple things are really annoying), Elian (same as AB), JV (offer that they should just come to the conference and talk to people)
- status: rejected