Knowledge Flows

We have submitted a paper on our knowledge flows work: Detecting Knowledge Flows in Weblogs. Anjo Anjewierden, Robert de Hoog, Rogier Brussee and Lilia Efimova. Submitted. 2005. (Contact the first author if you would like to quote). The full version of the paper as a 14 page PDF document is here. We would like to thank the Metis project to make this work possible.

Rather than quoting the rather long abstract, I will illustrate the idea of a knowledge flow (in weblogs) with a screendump that can also be found in the paper. The BlogTrace screendump is the result of the user asking for linked weblog posts about knowledge management and display them as sparklines. On the left are source posts, and on the right the targets (the weblog post the source refers to). In the middle is a sparkline that indicates to what degree the two posts overlap in terminology used. The idea is loosely based on a post by Luke Wroblewski. Sparklines, as I understand them, are to provide a small visualisation of information that fits with the surrounding text. In this particular sparkline three colours are used: dark red (terms shared by the bloggers), light red (terms agreed) and green (private terms). When the sparkline works as intended, red is hot, users should be quickly able to see which pairs of linked posts are most interesting to pursue further.

Comments

[Ton]

Mooi om te zien dat dit werk verder gaat, sinds je Sigmund liet zien vorig voorjaar.

groeten,

Ton

[Edward Tufte]

Those aren't sparklines, which are small, intense, high-resolution, wordlike graphics. The graphics in the pdf look like a routine simple barchart.

See the 18-page essay and the many sparklines at http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1

[Anjo]

Edward, See Beyond Visualising Numbers for my interpretation.