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Stop digitizing books; Encode and Deliver Knowledge

The competitive rush to merely ?digitize books? by technology and business leaders is surprising. Making those digitized books searchable is just incremental and not very imaginative, considering the credentials for innovation of the key players. It is equally surprising that the curators of knowledge form the academic and government institutions have not demanded anything superior.

Let?s identify the purpose of digitizing and storing text as it exists in books / journals. I propose that the real and long-term purpose is, ?Knowledge Builder Server System---A Federated System of Autonomous Distributed Institutional or Individual Knowledge Sources and Users. Its functions:

A. To author, encode, dynamically build, and interactively deliver KNOWLEDGE (not merely text, graphics, speech, or video) using Information Technology (Internet, Semantic Web, NLP) and human intelligence in programmable combinations;

B. To provide multiple modes of navigation and Interaction between ?Human and or Electronic Information Seeker? and the Knowledge Repository;

C. To quickly and easily formulate a full or partial ?Query with sufficient Expressive Power and Precision?; To avoid ?Search? and enable ?Fetch?; (?single search field? has proved to be woefully inadequate for serious search, let alone research);

D. To develop / deploy Powerful Knowledge Analysis, Summarizing and Reporting methods and tools for use by the owners / administrators of the Knowledge Repositories and Knowledge workers (Information Seekers, Authors, Referees, and Editors);

E. To develop and interoperate several win-win value & revenue models over the Internet to serve the interests of all the players fairly within law (current or emerging).

There are many published and evolving methods, standards (Semantic Web, OWL, RDF etc) and proposals to meet some of the above. With a little imagination and effort, we can build a system of abundant value that will let us all thrive by cooperation. That should be done before anyone digitizing any book.

Putcha V. Narasimham
putchavn@yahoo.com , putchavn@gmail.com

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