VISUAL SEMANTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION “Conceptipedia” a collaboration platform for “WikiNizers”
András Benedek, Christopher P. Goodman, G. Lajos · Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) · 2015
We illustrate, with use cases supplied by a new personal knowledge organization tool called WikiNizer (wikinizer.com), how visualizing information and its conceptual organization, can help learners and knowledge workers accomplish knowledge organization tasks. The graphic features of WikiNizer, a wiki-like organizer implemented as a graph knowledge base, make visualizations of personal “associative complexes” within shared interests and topics possible, in the form of a Knowledge Graph of ‘Things’. We describe a “Conceptipedia” collaboration concept, applicable not only within the educational field but also in knowledge work in general, which helps us to solve problems visually. Conceptipedia is a collaboration platform which enables WikiNizer users to compare, share, and merge their conceptualization of a domain in the form of meta-knowledge graphs. Conceptipedia helps the user define relations between concepts, and provides interactions which can be coupled with different collaboration techniques. Developing mappings between the meta-structures of the emergent graphs makes conceptualization intellectually manageable, and turns semantic structures into visual Knowledge Architectures that consolidate ontological relations. The collaborative epistemology of Conceptipedia co-evolves commensurate meta-structures to the mutual benefit of its users. Sense-making, by researching, exploring, capturing, articulating, mapping, visualizing and merging conceptual (meta)-structures and relationships can become a social process of consensus building.