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dc.contributor.authorPigott, Diarmuid
dc.contributor.authorGammack, John
dc.contributor.authorHobbs, Valerie
dc.contributor.editorThou Tin Lim
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:30:33Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:30:33Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.modified2009-11-18T05:33:45Z
dc.identifier.issn02196492
dc.identifier.doi10.1142/S0219649203000097
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/6407
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we will argue that the representation of context in knowledge management is appropriately served by the representation of the knowledge networks in an historicised form. Characterising context as essentially extra to any particular knowledge representation, we argue that another dimension to these be modelled, rather than simply elaborating a form in its own terms. We present the formalism of the cat's cradle network, and show how it can be represented by an extension of the Pathfinder associative network that includes this temporal dimension, and allows evolutions of understandings to be traced. Grounding its semantics in communities of practice ensures utility and cohesiveness, which is lost when mere externalities of a representation are communicated in fully fledged forms. The scheme is general and subsumes other formalisms for knowledge representation. The cat's cradle network enables us to model such community-based social constructs as pattern languages, shared memory and patterns of trust and reliance, by placing their establishment in a structure that shows their essential temporality.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWorld Scientific Publishing Co.
dc.publisher.placeSingapore
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.worldscinet.com/jikm/jikm.shtml
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom87
dc.relation.ispartofpageto92
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Information & Knowledge Management
dc.relation.ispartofvolume2
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInformation Systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode0806
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1702
dc.titleThe Cat's Cradle Network
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2003
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorGammack, John G.


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