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Our proposal is to provide a window into distributed worldwide scholarship. A window on distributed worldwide scholarship reveals a social discourse with core issues related to science and mathematics as expressed in theories of knowledge and theories of computing. University faculty members, from many universities, have defined this distributed scholarship. The proposed next step will create a virtual machine-mediated repository on knowledge sharing scholarship.
The Knowledge Sharing Foundation will extend technical work that Paul Prueitt began in the early 1990s at Georgetown University and during the academic year 2002-2003 at George Washington University. Grants and gifts would be received during the five academic years 2004 – 2010 with the goal of endowing several University Chairs, in various universities, and of acquiring distributed infrastructure supporting virtual sharing of scholarship mediated by machine-readable ontology.
The Knowledge Sharing Foundation will be co-located with a number of universities as part of a new national virtual poliversity.
Knowledge sharing scholarship is by nature interdisciplinary and demanding. The scholarship and the required technical capabilities are diffuse. For example, the technical resources for thematic analysis of social discourse exist in one system in Russia. A functionally similar system (NSC J-39) was partially deployed (2002) by Prueitt within the US intelligence community as an open source web based instrumentation and analysis system over Islamic social discourse. This open source system produces something similar to an opinion poll. A knowledge technical capability also exists in various machine-readable ontology technologies such as Topic Maps and the new Ontology Web Language (OWL). Professor Prueitt has develop patents on behalf of several companies in this area. These patents are placed within map of emerging intellectual property related to the knowledge sciences.
Peter Stephenson, Eastern Michigan University, has developed a model of cyber attack mechanisms using foundational notation based on Prueitt’s work. Other research and teaching relationships exist that is bring forward a body of work that targets a deeper understanding about the nature of human communication and the role that science plays in our society.
The
Center for Knowledge Sharing will allow foundations and corporations to make
gifts to the university and to receive benefits from our students and from
technology evaluative processes provided by the Center. In exploratory work, at George Washington
University, commitments were received from seven corporations. Current commitments for corporate gifts
include advanced computer software and methodologies for knowledge management
and information production.
The
federal government is expected to support a new initiative based on the
Knowledge Sharing concept. This concept
has been discussed at various agencies including the National Security Agency,
and the National Science Foundation.
Current educator-to-educator collaborative environments will be extended
with some additional granted resources.
A
right to return to safe and sustainable family
farms is discussed as part of the biodefense system for the United States.