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Welcome to Gnowledge Portal

by Nagarjuna G. last modified 2007-12-04 15:59
Contributors: Nagarjuna G.
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2004,2005, 2006, 2007 Nagarjuna G, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education

The following is an introduction to what you can do at the gnowledge.org portal.



Knowledge Organization

At this portal we invite everyone to organize knowledge. The objective is to produce a network of concepts interrelated to each other by appropriate relations. The objective is not to write an essay on each topic, because we already have them at Wikipedia.org. This will generate a large concept base which can be used by everyone for semantic computing, as well as for quick reference. Since Wikipedia.org already contains several such concepts, we use their database to automatically create links. Each topic in gnowledge.org will act as a small node containing minimal information required to say what it is. Additional information can be added not as text, but as relations to other nodes. The easiest way to begin working at this portal is by adding a node using 'Add Bookmark' form into your Gnow Cart.

Gnow cart

Gnow cart is a simple collection of bookmarks posted by the user of the portal. It is analogous to a shopping cart in a mall, but here it is meant for sharing and not for shopping. Each bookmark can be about any page or a section of a page on the Internet which has a definite address (a URL). Currently, each user can have only one gnow cart. As the portal develops further, we will provide multiple carts to hold different kinds of bookmarks.

Fast and recommended way of adding an item into a Gnow Cart is by searching for a concept using 'wikipedia' tab. Once you find the concept, you can use the 'Add to Cart' link to drop the item into the Gnow Cart.

After populating enough number of items in the Cart, you can proceed to 'Gnowledge Organizer'.

Gnowledge Organizer:

When you click on 'organize' link in the gnow cart. A seperate window called 'Gnowledge Organizer' will open. Here you can do one of the following:

  1. Provide a name to the collection of bookmarks.
  2. Organize the bookmarks into chapters, sections and sub-sections, so that you get a hierarchically structured sequence.
    • Move an item up or down to define a sequence by dragging and dropping using a mouse pointer.
    • Move an item into another item to define chapters, sections, and subsections by dragging and dropping using a mouse pointer. Currently, about seven levels of sub-sectioning is possible.
    • Move an item into the Trash, to mark the item for deletion, which happens at the time of saving the track. Please add only single items as a simple sequence in the 'Trash'.
    • Save the sequence by a name. When you save a sequence, you can see an item added into your 'Saved Tracks'. Saving your work will enable you to work in multiple sessions.
  3. Edit and Publish a Sequence:
    • Publishing a well sequenced track will transform the sequence into a hyperlinked navigation. Such a navigation can be used as a course, lesson, or for any organized delivery of content on the net.
    • Please note that only published tracks are visible to others. Since gnowledge.org is a community portal, we encourage authors to publish sooner than later, so that other users can also contribute to the track.
  4. Add relations:
    • By choosing any two items of the cart and select an appropriate relation name, you can establish relationships.
  5. Add questions:
    • For each item in the cart, you can select the type of question and author a question.

    This section describes how to add objects to gnow cart using the wikipedia knowledge base

    1. Enter a word in wikipedia search.
    2. Select one of the items in the search result.
    3. If the item is what you wanted for building a track, add the item to gnow cart.

    This section describes how to add external learning objects using add bookmark portlet on the web page

    1. Copy the URL (address) of the page you want to add as a bookmark in your gnow cart.
    2. Give a title to the bookmark.
    3. live a small description about the bookmark.
    4. Submit the bookmark to the gnow cart.
Very soon, you can also add properties to each item, classify and organize published tracks, create ontologies for different domains of knowledge,
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