Bayle Shanks: Collaborative software
I'm interested in information architecture/knowledge management and the application of new technology to collaboration.
More specifically,
- knowledge representation & inference
- commonsense knowledge databases (new interest; don't know much about it yet)
- semantic web (new interest; don't know much about it yet)
- distributed moderation/rating systems
- market-based approaches (i.e. "information markets", or the application of financial derivatives to ideas)
- collaborative document writing (wiki)
- fighting information overload
- syndication
- group decision making
I believe that in many fields of human endeavor, including mathematics, science, technology, and politics, the most important thing to create right now is not more raw, original knowledge, but rather more organization of what is already there.
Currently, I'm most interested in wikis.
Projects
Projects in collaborative software that I've initiated or greatly influenced include:
Activities
I'm a contributor to CommunityWiki.
Publications and talks
Talks
Papers
- Bayle Shanks. WikiGateway: a library for interoperability and accelerated wiki development. To be presented at WikiSym 2005, San Diego, CA, USA (2005).
- Bayle Shanks and Dana Dahlstrom. Parliament: a module for parliamentary procedure software. Paper presented at 2nd Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice / DIAC-2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA (2005).
- Dana Dahlstrom and Bayle Shanks. Software support for face-to-face parliamentary procedure. Paper presented at 2nd Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice / DIAC-2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA (2005).
- Undergraduate honor's thesis (2003)
Links to miscellaneous old projects
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