Creating the Concept Web by collaborative intelligence
Wikiprofessional's Concept Web Initiative is a global collaboration to innovate how knowledge is represented and expanded on the Internet.
The Internet embodies an enormous information space that continues to expand exponentially in page count but not proportionally in new knowledge. Redundancy of the same facts and opinions within a myriad of web-pages has artificially inflated the size of the Internet. To get a million search results on a query without the ability to separate redundancy of the same information from the incremental knowledge expansions on that query concept is highly inefficient. Within the Concept Web, information is converted to streamlined knowledge where redundancy and newness of idea expansion are properly represented.
In the Concept Web, knowledge representation and expansion is accomplished with the aid of two revolutionary technologies: Knowlet and a new professional Wiki.
Within the Concept Web, volumes of textual literature have been distilled into pertinent concepts and represented in the form of a Knowlet. The Knowlet summarizes the relations between the concepts and presents the strength of the relationship based on a value derived from three main factors: factual (F) statements found in scientific databases, the co-occurrence (C) of two concepts in a text, and a predictive (P) parameter based on the conceptual overlap of the two concepts. The Knowlet also can detect newness by comparing the ever expanding flow of ideas uploaded to the Internet verses those already categorized in its corpus of over one hundred million sentences and five billion co-occurrences. As a result, the Concept Web collapses the volume of data posted on the Internet to just a subset of unique ideas. Then because it achieves this efficient reduction by creating a concept-based system of information identification, it provides seamless, precise navigation and insight around the knowledge space of individual concepts as well as the growing complexity of understanding the relationships of multiple concepts.
Wikiprofessional offers you two ways to enter the Concept Web: the Concept Web Navigator and the Wikifier. Via the Concept Web Navigator, you can directly explore or edit the Concept Web by typing a query into the search box. For each concept you query, the Navigator yields a unified results page that shows both the Knowlet and new Wiki page. The Wikifier is a tool that allows the power of the Concept Web to be access from any web-page in the world.
In addition to the precision with which the Concept Web represents knowledge on the Internet, it also fuels the real-time expansion of knowledge with creation of new Wiki technology. The Wiki is an extension of the MediaWiki software that enables Wiki editing capability in a relational database structure.
WikiProfessional has jumpstarted the knowledge expansion initiative of the Concept Web by the importing of 'authoritative sources' from the Life Sciences into the Wiki. Currently, selected records from the Unified Medical Language System, UniProt, GeneOntology, and IntAct have been imported providing foundation information on over a million concepts for which the 'million minds' can add their insights. The authoritative sources are 'read only' in WikiProfessional and community annotation will be supplementary, performed on copies of the original records. Users will be able to add new or edit existing textual commentary to, for example, nuance or describe new biological functions. It will also be possible to establish links between two Wiki records to illustrate pertinent relationships. All modifications are attributed to the participating scientist and certain granting agencies have indicated that they are interested in using the resulting contributions as indices of scholarly achievement. Eventually, the most mature stage of the community data can be combined with the latest version of the authoritative source data and acknowledgment will be given for the scientific contribution. Gradually, more authoritative sources will be added.
While the Life Sciences are the starting point for the Concept Web, the Wikiprofessional collaboration intends to expand the knowledge representation and expansion dynamics of the Concept Web systematically in disciplines and languages throughout the world.