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We are also working on how this knowledgebase resource can be baked into our ongoing geoscientific research as a living tool - building it by using it in practice. Rather than being an afterthought, only contributed to by someone with enough interest at the end of a project, we are seeking to build it as a scientific instrument used directly in research and analysis. By working with this capability to solve important problems in information and knowledge management that are impeding our research practices today, this should result in a much more efficient pathway to usable knowledge projected out for others to take advantage of for their own purposes. | We are also working on how this knowledgebase resource can be baked into our ongoing geoscientific research as a living tool - building it by using it in practice. Rather than being an afterthought, only contributed to by someone with enough interest at the end of a project, we are seeking to build it as a scientific instrument used directly in research and analysis. By working with this capability to solve important problems in information and knowledge management that are impeding our research practices today, this should result in a much more efficient pathway to usable knowledge projected out for others to take advantage of for their own purposes. | ||
The Wikidata/Wikibase approach is | The Wikidata/Wikibase approach is particularly interesting in that it specifically promotes and supports the dynamic of having multiple competing claims/assertions about the same things at the same time, leaving it up to the inquirer to determine what characteristics about the claims indicate in terms of trustworthiness or fitness for purpose. Too often, these judgments are made in the background without a sufficient record describing the reasoning. We have thousands of examples of individual scientific datasets developed this way without granular enough information for the next scientist to make their own reasoned decisions upon. We're interested in how the knowledgebase approach helps us correct that dynamic in our work. | ||
Some of what we bring together in the GeoKB will be originated from our work in USGS, while much of it will come from the many other public data and information sources we consult in our research. We'll be working hard to get things right in terms of references and qualifiers on claims and careful provenance tracing through item and property history and annotation. We'll share the code we use in developing bots to handle as much of this work as possible, starting with [https://github.com/skybristol/geokb this project]. | Some of what we bring together in the GeoKB will be originated from our work in USGS, while much of it will come from the many other public data and information sources we consult in our research. We'll be working hard to get things right in terms of references and qualifiers on claims and careful provenance tracing through item and property history and annotation. We'll share the code we use in developing bots to handle as much of this work as possible, starting with [https://github.com/skybristol/geokb this project]. | ||
