2024-04-05

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Here are the notes about the weekly meeting of the Knowledge Standards Foundation. View notes from previous meetings.

Attendees

Alex, John, LaCroix, Nancy, Robert, Henry, Sergei, Larry, Manon, Tim

Summary

Alex

  • Asked for feedback on Collection of notes about information: 3.26.24 - 3.30.24 and What is organize?.
  • Discussion about IBG and the difference between information retrieval and information organization.
  • Mentioned that a information retrieval / creating a search engine is difficult to compete in because the ideal tool should be able to retrieve information from anywhere on the world wide web instead be of being limited. The big opportunity is organizing information into a decentralized network of directories.
  • Mentioned that IBG not using technology beyond HTML is an advantage for simplicity and adoption.
  • Mentioned that IBG and other information templates could spread on the internet in a similar way to how meme photo templates have spread on the internet.
  • John mentioned Zettelkasten as an alternative to IBG, but I believe that IBG has an advantage because it is simpler and doesn't not require additional technology.
  • John mentioned using LLMs to create IBG posts, but I said I wouldn't want to do that because I only want to make posts that have personal meaning to me (artistic reason). I could add unlimited IBG posts using LLMs to my blog and this would crowd out the human created posts that reflect how I personally want to organize information.
  • I didn't mention this in the meeting, but I believe that IBG (or another standard method of displaying on a information on a webpage) could do for KSF what wikis did for Wikipedia because IBG has a low barrier to entry. It is easier to make a list of information than to write / research an article.

Tim

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