KM Labs : Knowledge Management Technologies

It is not in the official news of the GEO (Group on Earth Observations), but the GEOSS Search Engine (GEOPORTAL) was launched ! 

Derived from ESA's Earth Observation Community Portal (EO Portal), this contribution will put the accent on remote sensing, geospatial-static and in-situ data, with web services information. You can for instance overlay satellite datas to Google Earth !

Another update about the Metaverse project : a workshop conference is organised at Stanford University this 15 february. Objectives : exploring the spectrum of technologies and applications identified in the Roadmap. Functions : augmentation to simulation; and intimate (identity-focused) to external (world-focused), Applications : lifelogging, augmented reality, mirror worlds and virtual worlds. It is not a Roadmap Summit, but rather a further exploration of the ideas, and a chance for people in the field to connect and converse, and to prepare a full Summit in 2009 or 2010.

Les cartes conceptuelles ou schemas heuristiques sont des modes de representation cognitive des connaissances qui favorisent la communication et le traitement des informations. On prete a un psychologue anglais Tony Buzan l'invention de cette méthode, dans son projet d'une encyclopédie du cerveau humain.

Organiser ses idees, partager ses connaissances, son agenda...avec les outils de MindMapping est un bon réflexe. Il en existe plus d'une trentaine comme FreeMind en Open Source, ou CMAP ...