This is a pitch for something new: the "Researchers' Workbench".
Australia has the wealth and inventiveness to do it, but most probably, not the political will.
Chalk that up to "the Cultural Cringe".
Showing posts with label Augmenting Human Intellect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Augmenting Human Intellect. Show all posts
2008/07/15
Bad Science or Science Done Badly?
Is 'Science', as practiced by Academic Researchers, executed poorly?
More specifically:
Is the practice of Research as undertaken by Academics, as effective as it could be?
This posits that an aspect of "Professional Research" is intentionally increasing your capability and effectiveness.
Computing/Information Technology is a Cognitive Amplifier - exactly suited to central parts of "Professional Research" - e.g. learning, recalling and searching published papers and books.
If an individual researcher can increase their "knowledge uptake" just 7% in a year, after a decade they know twice as much, given uptake builds on existing knowledge.
What is Research about if not Knowledge: Gathering, Analysis, Representation, Taxonomy/Ontology, Management and Communication?
This field began in 1995 and is broadly known as "Knowledge Management".
More specifically:
Is the practice of Research as undertaken by Academics, as effective as it could be?
This posits that an aspect of "Professional Research" is intentionally increasing your capability and effectiveness.
Computing/Information Technology is a Cognitive Amplifier - exactly suited to central parts of "Professional Research" - e.g. learning, recalling and searching published papers and books.
If an individual researcher can increase their "knowledge uptake" just 7% in a year, after a decade they know twice as much, given uptake builds on existing knowledge.
What is Research about if not Knowledge: Gathering, Analysis, Representation, Taxonomy/Ontology, Management and Communication?
This field began in 1995 and is broadly known as "Knowledge Management".
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