Neo-Con/Lib Information Base Design (Pt II)

by ATinNM
Sun Mar 12th, 2006 at 04:46:06 PM EST

Part II has the Resources and Operational overviews of the Information Base.  This was broken-out from Part I to structure discussion and criticism.  The description of the operation has been consciously made as broad as possible to encourage as many ideas as possible.  Also, given the length of Part I, the shorter the diary, the better.


The resources reuqired for the Information Base are:

I.   A Scoop-type site (EuroTribune?)
II.  A Blog-type site (LocustWatch?)
III. A Wikipedia-type site (EU-Wikipedia?)

I.  A Scoop-Site: a place for free-form discussion, analysis, suggestions for inclusion, criticism, and so on.

II. A Blog-site: a location to make unavailable information web-available as well as location for original rebuttals, criticisms, & etc of Neo-Conservativism and Neo-Liberalism.

III.  A Wikipedia-site for the location of the TERM, WHO, and ORGANIZATION datasets.

OPERATION

Unless financial support can be found data entry depends on the willingness of volunteers to supply and format the information in accordance with the design as overseen by volunteer 'editiors' to ensure the proper cross-links are embedded in the proper place(s):  

TERM          WHO              ORGANIZATION
 Term  <--> Terms Used <--->   Comments
 Pushed By <---------------->   Name
                Name <----------> Staff
             Organization <----->  Name
               Name <---------->  Funder
               Name <-------> Board of Directors

These linkages are the means of navigation and assocation between the datasets.

Some linkages are internal to a dataset such as internal references in the TERM dataset.  Example, "Labor Market Flexibility" is cross-referenced to, and by, "Union busting."  The establishment of these links make it possible for a user to start on any of the linkages and follow the chain of references to, possibily, startingly information: the IMF promoting "Union busting" as can be found using the examples in Part I.

Not only can these reference chains be followed by a human but manufacture of the "Bullshit Bingo" Cards can be done automatically by the programming of a 'Information Base Crawler' that randomly picks from the TERM dataset, assembles a 5 by 5 or 4 by 4 matrix, and prints it out.  If possible, these cards should be numbered and kept so a person recieving the card off-line can enter the card number, see it appear on their screen, and then use the references as a starting point for their researchs.  Admittedly, this is a huge gobble of disk space for an unknown utility but it's a great marketing and Information Base research tool.

The Information Base is designed such that users can find information on a variety of axis such as Organizational links through direct contact, indirect contact through the movement of their Staffs, mutal sponsoring of conferences, or wherever their fancy and interest leads.  

It is suggested an entry, or change, to any entry in a dataset be 'vetted' before being placed in the wikipedia.  This is to ensure quality control and quality assurance of the datasets, meeting the goal of, "Be a reputable, reliable, source of information regarding Neo-Conservatism and Neo-Liberalism."  

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Have epistemological model of Complex Information environments. Will Travel.
by ATinNM on Sun Mar 12th, 2006 at 05:01:26 PM EST
Great work, AT.

No particular suggestions or criticisms at this stage.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Mar 13th, 2006 at 02:38:57 AM EST


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