Grand Systems Projects A How-to-Do Guide

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Revolutionary System Models, The Net, The
Public Interest
www.canis.uiuc.edu
The Interspace Prototype (1997-2000) Digital
Libraries Initiative (1994-1998) Worm Community
System (1990-1993) Telesophy System (1984-1989)
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Revolutionary System Models,The Net, The
Public Interest
Bruce Schatz Digital Library Research Program and
NCSA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign sc
hatz_at_uiuc.edu, http//canis.uiuc.edu NRC CSTB
Workshop on Advancing the Public Interest through
Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence National
Academy of Sciences, September 25, 1997
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Revolutionary System Models

• Where do new Systems come from?
• Systems projects can Build Models
• Models can inspire Mass Infrastructure
• Sponsor determines Purpose of Systems
• Public Interest is not Commercial
• Revolutionary Systems is not Commercial
• NSF technology Foundation sponsorship
• can build revolutionary system models!

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The Third Wave of Net Evolution
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Interspace
ARPANET
Internet
FUNCTION
Access
Organization
Analysis
1995
SERVICES
Distributed Files
Global Hypermedia
Distributed Objects
Global Semantics
Distributed Paths
1975
2000
UNITS
Packets
Files
Links
Objects
Concepts
Categories
1985
1965
PROTOCOLS
IP
FTP
CORBA
CP
HTTP
SMP
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Evolution of the Net

• The Present Access
• The Net fetches documents
• The Future Organization
• The Net searches repositories
• The Millennium Analysis
• The Net correlates information
• From the Internet (data transmission)
• to the Interspace (information manipulation)

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System Model Timeline

• 1984 Telesophy proposed at Bellcore
• revolutionary system prototype developed
• 1989 Schatz systems advisor at NCSA
• 20th Anniversary ARPANET Symposium
• 1994 NCSA Mosaic gains many users
• Mosaic 1M, Netscape 50M, Explorer 100M
• 1999 Web achieves Telesophy functionality
• browsing sharing multimedia documents

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Advancing the Public Interest

• Industrial RD labs have Vanished
• Commercial pressures push Advertising
• Where are Revolutionary Models today?
• At Universities, with public private funds
• For example...

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Global Cultural Memory

• Enable Everyone to understand
• How They Have Lived and
• How They Will Live
• The Structures of Everyday Life
• recorded over space and time
• correlated in a global information space
• Appreciate the Past and Predict the Future

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Evolutionary System Model

• Getty project using commercial technology
• Museum-style Web collection
• curators to classify from big sources
• Champaign County Historical information
• county-level community repository
• 5000 Historical Societies in US

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Revolutionary System Model

• A planet for every kids local environment
• Federating the planets into a universe
• Ordering all planets from kids POV
• Flying through the Kids Universe
• Finding similar kids from different POVs
• Connecting historically through museums
• this is feasible due to NSF technology!!

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Research Issues in KDI

• Community Repositories sovereign
  individual
• indexing all the knowledge of small groups
• Semantic Federation transient
  centralization
• creating virtual libraries from distributed
  repositories
• Information Analysis think globally,
  act locally
• correlating across repositories to solve problems
• The World of a Billion Repositories
• The Interspace of the 21st Century
• http//www.canis.uiuc.edu/keytalks.html

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Community System
results
data
(database management)
(electronic mail)
knowledge
(hypertext annotations)
literature
news
(information retrieval)
(bulletin boards)
Formal
Informal
browse and share all the knowledge of a community
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Worm Community System

• WCS Information
• Literature Biosis, Medline, newsletter, meetings
• Data Genes, Maps, Sequences, strains, people
• WCS Functionality
• Browsing search, navigation
• Filtering selection, analysis
• Sharing linking, publishing
• WCS 250 users at 50 labs across the Internet

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Federation Techniques

• Structure Federation using SGML
• Syntactic Federation using multiple views
• Semantic Federation using term suggestion
• examples from DLI Testbed
• http//dli.grainger.uiuc.edu

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Analysis Enviroments

• Concept Spaces for interactive suggestion
• Category Maps for semantic clustering
• Information Spaceflight for navigation
• examples from DLI Research
• http//canis.uiuc.edu/interspace/

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Interspace Prototype

• semantic retrieval concept spaces
• semantic interoperability vocabulary switching
• semantic indexing object categorization
• semantic clustering category maps
• information spaceflight region visualization
• analysis environment path correlations

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KDI Implications

• Sovereign Individual
• community repositories for custom indexing
• Transient Centralization
• community curators as relationship bonders
• Think Globally, Act Locally
• vocabulary switches for correlation
  infrastructure
• Situational Analysis
• dynamic categorization for problem solving
• Zen of the Net
• at one with the knowledge of the world (mushin)