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Bayle Shanks's website
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 in collaborative software that I’ve initiated or greatly influenced include:
WikiGateway (I was also a co-founder of the interwiki-discuss mailing list.
CommunityProgrammableWiki (currently offline)
Past contributor to CommunityWiki.
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).
introductory notes on Roberts Rules
/notes-groupDecisionMaking (beware: these notes were written for personal use; they are not necessarily readable)
/notes-group (beware: these notes were written for personal use; they are not necessarily readable)
