Chatty Community Gardens

Group chat is fertile soil for low-stakes ideation. With tending, seeds of thought can grow into structured, evergreen knowledge.

The SAGE Community Coordinator: A Demonstration

Sustainable polyculture gardens thrive more effectively when they are designed with an awareness of other gardens in the community, as opposed to as individual gardens. However, the complex characteristics of plants, and their relations to other plant species in terms of needs and capacities, require a complex knowledge base not easily acquired by novice gardeners. We contribute a demonstration of our project, called the Software for Agricultural Ecosystems (SAGE) Community Coordinator, that helps manage the complexities of plant relationships and provides planting suggestions based on existing plants in adjacent garden sites. The research team collected the requirements and developed a preliminary demonstration of this system. This demonstration shows the feasibility of the idea and lays the foundation for a more comprehensive implementation of the SAGE Community Coordinator. By doing so, this paper explores the use of technology to foster the establishment of complex plant assemblages in urban and suburban areas to address the current and future limits of material resources derived from plants.

Constructing a New Knowledge Infrastructure

A knowledge commons could support evidence-based policymaking, but it will require coordination with the communities monitoring pollution.

Muni Blog

Networked community gardens in the interwebs.

epistemic garden - mapping how ideas spread online

We're building tools to help communities understand their information landscape and protect against harmful coordinated narratives.

The Ecosystem

Create collective knowledge by crowdsourcing and adapting governance innovations.

Wait… whats a Community of Practice?

“Learning is not merely the acquisition of knowledge by individuals. It is a process of social participation.” A slightly bastardised…

Chive's knowledge graph - Chive

How Chive's community-governed knowledge graph replaces hardcoded categories with a portable, extensible vocabulary.

Semble

A social knowledge tool for research trails, built on ATProto

Free Knowledge Institute

Building social capacity through shared knowledge and technology

See what you think

Allegra A. Beal Cohen's blog about knowledge curation, new interfaces, and large-scale qualitative data.

The rise of community-curated knowledge networks

The Internet put thousands of years of human thought at our fingertips, and enabled billions of people to create content. At least 2.5…