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Wiki v.s AcademiXML : Diagram

The writing and reading process of the two platforms can be expressed in the following diagrams.

Wiki model: readers access a singular knowledge.

AcademiXML model : readers choose the knowledge to access (editor/aggregator)

In the wiki model, authors contribute to a singular knowledge, which appears exactly the same to all viewers (Many makes One platform). In the AcademiXML model, authors contribute objects of knowledge into a database, which appear differently to each viewer based on how they filter the information (Many makes Many platform). An author in AcademiXML can also contribute a ‘collection’, which are relevant groupings of knowledge objects, similar to playlists in iTunes or Youtube. In a traditional academic sense, a collection can be seen as a book, thesis or paper: a collection, represents the idea constructed from the inter-linked knowledge objects. Furthermore, a collection of collections, or even a collection of collections of collections can be contributed in AcademiXML.
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Nico Nico Douga - Miku Hachune (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm982882)

Miku Hatsune([knowledge_object_id:29]) is technically a copy-righted and commercial software but she has a strong association with the Open Source culture because its creators Crypton positively encouraged users to copy, remix and make parallel versions with her voice and her character. Oddly, Miku Hatsune is often portrayed “holding a leek” which originated from an early popular animation uploaded in 2007 (with currently more than 2.5 million views) featuring “Miku Hachune” drawn in a more rounded, deformed style, singing “Levan Polkka” with a leek in her hand. The leeks, which since appear in many other user-created content not restricted to Miku Hatsune, became (rather accidentally) the symbol of the ‘empowerment’ of user generated creativity and open source movement in the Nico Nico community.
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#hiromi [creator:"Hiromi Ozaki", time:"2009-09-24T10.42.39.0Z", tag:"Miku Hatsune, Nico Nico Douga, Open Source, User generated content, Leeks"]

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Linear v.s. Nonlinear

A crucial idea of AcademiXML is to deconstruct the concept of a ‘book’, where a theory is generally supported with a linear structure of introduction, chapters and a single conclusion, into a ‘collection’ of knowledge objects, making it more seamless with the way people view and aggregate information on web. The structure of text becomes rather dominating in Wiki-based documents because readers cannot rearrange the pages and categories they view on the fly. If Wikis are powerful for collaboratively editing a structured body of text, the machine-readable, XML format of AcademiXML makes it powerful for creating smaller objects of texts which can be tagged, rearranged and associated with ease, allowing content to be viewed nonlinearly.
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#hiromi [creator:"Hiromi Ozaki", time:"2009-09-24T16.37.10.0Z", tag:"AcademiXML, wiki"]

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転調アリ、テンポ変えアリ、語りアリ、この音楽性めっちゃすごいな。
スプツニ子新アルバムもBPM２倍くらいにしていこーかなー

key change, tempo change, lyrics, spoken words, a music cultural highpoint.

LOVE IT!

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#hiromi [creator: "Hiromi Ozaki", tags: "AcademiXML, Language, Reference", time:"2009-09-20T13:25:36.0Z", lat:40.78, lon:73.97]

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ニューヨークのハローキティー噴水で
いえーい　ポップー

In front of the Hello Kitty Fountain in NYC
Yey Pop

アルスエレクトロニカ・リンツ→アメリカ・ピッツバーグでの展示＆ワークショップ　→ボストンMIT Media Lab & MIT Design Lab→ニューヨーク

一ヶ月ちかくロンドン離れて旅してた

けどまいにちRCAの論文ばっかり書いてて
気づいたらブログがめっっちゃ硬くなってる！！！wwwwww

旅行記、ちかぢか　ちょっとづつアップしなきゃ〜〜〜

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What is AcademiXML?

AcademiXML is a markup language for writing, connecting and sharing academic text. It allows the the author to tag her own piece of writing with the author name, time, location, keywords and other relevant information so her text can be filtered by a chosen keyword or be associated with other authors’ texts.

AcademiXML supports the addition of context or “meta-data” about where the writing came from, in a form meaningful both to machines and humans to facilitate the searching of data streams they particularly need. This helps spontaneous, unplanned connections to be made between texts from different sources with common contexts.

A fundamental idea of AcademiXML is to break down the traditional book or a thesis into smaller chunks of knowledge so they can be readily re-arranged, be filtered, read non-linearly and aggregated into other books or collections of knowledge, similar with regard to (but in AcademiXML‘s case, more fine-grained) what liquid publications puts it [liquidpub] ‘groupings of publications that can be based on topic and time but also on arbitrary rules in terms of what is included and how the quality of publications is assessed for them to be included in the collection.’[/liquidpub]

AcademiXML is currently in active development in collaboration with my colleague Cesar Harada .
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#liquidpub [creator: "Liquid Publication", title:"Liquid Publications: Scientific Publications meet the Web ", tag: "Scientific Publication, Liquid Books, Liquid Publication", time:"2009-09-19T13:31:27.0Z", url: "http://liquidpub.org/"]

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AcademiXML ver 1.0 – Syntax

Since most text, audio and video formats available on the web is in the HTML format, AcademiXML is designed to work with HTML as well as standalone.

When AcademiXML is used with HTML, the symbols “<” and “>” are replaced with “[" and "]” (similar to the markup language used in Wikipedia) to avoid confusion with HTML tags. The author can enclose snippets of her blog posts or her web page in AcademiXML to make that portion of text discoverable by the AcademiXML web crawler, which adds the text in its global network of academic texts. Alternatively, she can write the text entirely in the AcademiXML format and publish it on the web as a xml file.

Instance Case 1: Minimal Implementation
Below is an example of a minimal implementation in AcademiXML.

<academixml xsi:schemaLocation=”http://www.academixml.org/xsd/001.xsd” version=”1″>
<collection author =”Hiromi Ozaki”, time = “2009-09-19T13:37:45.0Z”>
<feed>http://www.academixml.org/examples/helloworld.xml</feed>
<data author =”Hiromi Ozaki”, time = “2009-09-19T13:37:45.0Z”>
<value>Hello World! This is my first academic text written in AcademiXML. </value>
</data>
</collection>
</academixml>

Instance Case 2 : Minimal Implementation with HTML
Below is an example of a minimal implementation in AcademiXML used within HTML.

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[hiromi]Hello World! This is my first academic text written in AcademiXML.[/hiromi]
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#collection [creator:"Hiromi Ozaki", time:"2009-09-19T13:37:45.0Z"]
#hiromi [creator:"Hiromi Ozaki", time:"2009-09-19T13:37:45.0Z"]
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The AcademiXML for HTML differs from its standard XML format in the way that it has ‘declarations’ in the very end or the beginning, in a style similar to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). By declaring all details of the texts and author in one section, it un-clutters the text making it more legible for the readers. Alternatively, if legibility is not an issue, the writer can still write the text in the same format as the original, in which case the “<” and “>” symbols are simply replaced with “[" and "]“.

Instance Case 3 : Complete Implementation
Below is an example of AcademiXML containing complete information that can be recorded.
<academixml xsi:schemaLocation=”http://www.academixml.org/xsd/001.xsd” version=”1″>
<collection creator=”Hiromi Ozaki”, time = “2009-09-19T13:37:45.0Z”>
<tag>AcademiXML</tag>
<tag>Complete;/tag>
<tag>Example;/tag>
<feed>http://www.academixml.org/examples/complete.xml</feed>
<lat>40.78</lat>
<lon>73.97</lon>
<email>contact@sputniko.com</email>
<data id=”0″ creator=”Hiromi Ozaki”, time= “2009-09-19T20:21:15.0Z”>
<tag>Tests</tag>
<url>http://sputniko.com/blog/?p=240</url>
<value>AcademiXML is a markup language for writing, connecting and sharing academic text. AcademiXML lets the writer tag her own piece of writing with the author name, time, location, keywords and other relevant information so her text can be filtered by a chosen keyword or be associated with other authors’ writing. AcademiXML supports the addition of context or “meta-data” about where the writing came from, in a form meaningful both to machines and humans to facilitate the searching of data streams that they particularly need. This helps spontaneous, unplanned connections to be made between texts from different sources with common contexts.</value>
</data>
<data id=”1″ creator=”Cesar Harada” time=”2009-09-13T10:17:52.0Z”>
<title>The Second Article</title>
<tag>Basic Idea</tag>
<lat>51.50</lat>
<lon>-0.13;/lon>
<email>contact@cesarharada.com</email>
<value>A fundamental idea of AcademiXML is the breaking down of the traditional book or a thesis into smaller objects of knowledge, so they may be readily re-arranged, filtered and aggregated into other books or collections of knowledge.</value>
</data>
</collection>
</academixml>

Instance Case 3 : Complete Implementation within HTML
Below is an example of AcademiXML used within HTML, containing complete information that can be recorded.

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[hiromi] AcademiXML is a markup language for writing, connecting and sharing academic text. AcademiXML lets the writer tag her own piece of writing with the author name, time, location, keywords and other relevant information so her text can be filtered by a chosen keyword or be associated with other authors’ writing. AcademiXML supports the addition of context or “meta-data” about where the writing came from, in a form meaningful both to machines and humans to facilitate the searching of data streams that they particularly need. This helps spontaneous, unplanned connections to be made between texts from different sources with common contexts.[/hiromi]

[cesar]A fundamental idea of AcademiXML is the breaking down of the traditional book or a thesis into smaller objects of knowledge, so they may be readily re-arranged, filtered and aggregated into other books or collections of knowledge.[/cesar]

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#hiromi [creator:"Hiromi Ozaki", time:"2009-09-19T20:21:15.0Z", tag:"Tests", url:"http://sputniko.com/blog/?p=240"]

#cesar [creator:"Cesar Harada", time:"2009-09-13T10:17:52.0Z", title:"The Second Article", email:contact@cesarharada.com, tag:"Basic Idea", lat:51.50, lon:-0.13]
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#hiromi [creator: "Hiromi Ozaki", tags: "AcademiXML, Syntax", time:"2009-09-19T22:30:25.0Z", lat:40.783333, lon:73.966667]

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Why AcademiXML?

[garyhall] Indeed, is something similar not likely to happen with regard to academic publishing as is already happening to the music and film industries, with academics making their research available online and other people reading it in a variety of formats, not just the print-on-paper codex book? At the very least, one wonders how long the print-on-paper reader-come-doorstop volume is going to last. [/garyhall]

[rca] “…we do expect you to have consulted the principal printed sources in your chosen area of study. These are still in the vast majority of cases published books, essays and articles, and however much information you might glean from electronic sources, we still require that you refer to these conventional ones. Secondly, most web pages have not been submitted to the same editorial processes that a book would normally undergo, and so their accuracy and reliability cannot in any way be guaranteed. This is not to say that printed sources are infallible, but they are generally subjected to a greater degree of scrutiny than Internet sources…” [/rca]

[hiromitweet]
5putniko I basically grew up right in the middle of the internet generation, and I feel that the way I perceive reading and writing text is completely different from the generation before. Deciding on a dissertation or a book “topic” and writing linearly to support it feels absolutely tedious and pas·sé.
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Academia seems to be in search for a new language.

If the media which ‘has not gone through the correct editorial process’ is the primary media in which the contemporary society seems to consume and generate knowledge (which, I’m guessing is why so many Royal College of Art students seem to cite electronic sources?) shouldn’t the academia be acting to devise a new standard to incorporate this, to avoid rendering itself obsolete?

AcademiXML is developed with an aim to update the traditional academic written format – of hardcopy prints, titles, table of contents, footnotes and dewey decimal classification – by creating a standard in better correspondence with contemporary formats of knowledge being produced – of electronic screens, tags, mash-ups, hyperlinks and aggregation.

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#rca [creator:"Royal College of Art", title:"Royal College of Art Dissertation Guideline 2009, page 2", tag:"Dissertation, Guideline, Academia, Royal College of Art", time:"2009-09-07T13.03.00.0Z", lat:51.500944, lon:-0.177436]

#garyhall [creator:"Gary Hall", title:"Liquid Books/Introduction to Version One Point Zero", tag:"Language, Academia, Liquid Books", time:"2009-02-27T12.27.25.0Z", url:"http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/Introduction-to-Version-One-Point-Zero"]

#hiromitweet [creator: "Hiromi Ozaki", tag: "Twitter, Writing Format, Dissertation Format", time:"2009-09-13T14:56:27.0Z", url: "http://twitter.com/5putniko"]

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Knowledge Objects

My masters dissertation is a collection of knowledge objects, which are represented as parsable, taggable nodes, written in an XML format called AcademiXML. These knowledge objects are rigorously tagged with relevant keywords, dates, geographical location at the time of writing, the author (if there is one), and are networked with themselves and outside sources.

My intention is to invite the readers to let the dissertation theme emerge and manifest itself, through filtering the knowledge objects with tags of their choice, locations of interest and chronology. I would like to encourage the readers to expand and update my dissertation through actively coupling my knowledge objects with outside sources or knowledge objects of their own.

What will the effect of this format – which I feel is now commonplace among online content – be on the reader’s relation to knowledge? Could my dissertation succeed to create knowledge or inspire thoughts without having a statement or a topic?
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