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* [[Karola Kirsanow]]?
* [[Karola Kirsanow]]?
* [[Joel Chan]] also interested in assisting
* [[Joel Chan]] also interested in assisting
* [[Arthur Perret]] (can assist with write-up & tests)


=== Progress so far ===
=== Progress so far ===

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Integrating/bridging narrative/discourse with computable knowledge graphs (and back)

What

How to ground knowledge graphs (that can be used for prediction or computational simulation experiments and models) in the discourse of evidence in scientific literature? How to transition from unstructured literature to knowledge graphs and keep things updated with appropriate provenance for (un)certainty?

Discussion entry points:

Who (add/edit/remove your name as desired!)

Progress so far

Some resources:

Next (ideas for next steps, open problems)

don't know if a joint project makes sense, but perhaps coordinated first prototypes of a bridge?

could use:

  • someone with programming skills to implement a POC translation between a discourse graph and one of the specific modeling languages/ontologies

Synthesis-oriented social media aka "from the stream to the garden"

What

How to enable sharing/direction of scholarly attention in a synthesis-oriented manner (e.g., not just popularity, but relevance to questions/hypotheses/methods, etc.)?

context in discussions on Discord:

https://discord.com/channels/1029514961782849607/1033091723389317160/1037771875012591616

concrete example: https://discord.com/channels/1029514961782849607/1037786518800039978/1037791239908622466

SEPIO + ActivitySteams via JSON-LD: https://discord.com/channels/1029514961782849607/1040042059916120094/1040042094363942932

Who (add/edit/remove your name as desired!)

Progress so far

Resources

Benjamin Goering started a thread with a prototype of expressing a graph of info using both ActivityStreams and SEPIO ontologies - https://discord.com/channels/1029514961782849607/1033091723389317160/1040042059916120094

Next (ideas for next steps, open problems)

there seems to be some energy behind producing a prototype/spec, perhaps to implement in an ActivityPub base

could use:

  • a "user" (preferably non-technical) to give feedback on mental models here. maybe Pooja Upadhyay?

Extending semantic mediawiki to cover discourse graph modeling

What

It could be really valuable to try to prototype a "computable" synthesis of the knowledge in this workshop here in the wiki. One test of the "computability" would be to make it visualizable.

Could have applications to thesemantic climate setting that Peter Murray-Rust is working on

See discussion in #discourse-modeling channel

Entry point: https://discord.com/channels/1029514961782849607/1039384335423389836/1039388306208718938

Who (add/edit/remove your name as desired!)

Progress so far

Next (ideas for next steps, open problems)

Latent/forming

Information models for (collaborative) interdisciplinary synthesis

What

How do we define minimal information models tuned for synthesis that can interoperate across various disciplines?

Concrete problem expressed by Peter-Murray Rust here: https://discord.com/channels/1029514961782849607/1040214388554084372/1040299259930611833: "The idea of Hypothesis testing is common in some disciplines, unknown in others. For example chemical synthesis or materials science is "can we make X?" and many sciences are exploratory - what can we see with a new telescope, plants in Antarctica, etc. You have to design your project but I suspect Hypothesis doesn't come into it."


And to a certain extent, the issue of representing/discussing the discourse of computational research (e.g., model parameters), discussed by Konrad Hinsen here: https://discord.com/channels/1029514961782849607/1038988750677606432/1039576903838859326


This connects also with Peter-Murray Rust's work on semantic climate (semantifying the IPCC report).

And also connects to emerging discussions around interoperability and Surfacing/managing/resolving disagreements in ontologies/terms/federation

Who (add/edit/remove your name as desired!)

  • Joel Chan is definitely interested in this, happy to lead this
  • Peter Murray-Rust?
  • Possibly also James Howison, based on emphasis in workshop submission on software artifacts as a locus of synthesis
  • And Paul Itoi based on interest in multiplayer zettelkastens

Progress so far

Next (ideas for next steps, open problems)

Synthesis-oriented search/discovery/exploration user interfaces

What

How do we support richer forms of synthesis-oriented interaction with the existing bodies of research that transcend publications as the unit?

Who (add/edit/remove your name as desired!)

Progress so far

Resources

Next (ideas for next steps, open problems)

Social infrastructures for synthesis (e.g., incentives, funding)

What

How to design/foster social structures / incentives / programs for fostering synthesis-friendly work, such as writing living literature reviews, adding metadata to experiments, etc.?

Who (add/edit/remove your name as desired!)

Progress so far

Next (ideas for next steps, open problems)

Surfacing/managing/resolving disagreements in ontologies/terms/federation

What

Who (add/edit/remove your name as desired!)

Progress so far

Next (ideas for next steps, open problems)

Hidden value / mental model mismatches in transitions between workflows / tools

What

What hidden value / mental (mis)matches might there be between new infrastructures we want to build (e.g., ontology-based organization of knowledge) and existing workflows / tools amongst scientists?

Who (add/edit/remove your name as desired!)

Progress so far

Next (ideas for next steps, open problems)

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