%0 Journal Article %1 skuce95 %A Skuce, Doug %A Lethbridge, Timothy C. %D 1995 %J International Journal of Human Computer Studies %K representation knowledge visualization %P 413--451 %T CODE4: A Unified System for Managing Conceptual Knowledge %U http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nernst/papers/code4journal.pdf %V 42 %X CODE4 is a general-purpose knowledge management system, intended to assist with the common knowledge processing needs of anyone who desires to analyse, store, or retrieve conceptual knowledge in applications as varied as the specification, design and user documentation of computer systems; the construction of term banks, or the development of ontologies for natural language understanding. This paper provides an overview of CODE4 as follows: We first describe the general philosophy and rationale of CODE4 and relate it to other systems. Next, we discuss the knowledge representation, specifically designed to meet the needs of flexible, interactive knowledge management. The highly-developed user interface, which we believe to be critical for this type of system, is explained in some detail. We finally describe how CODE4 is being used in a number of applications.

@article{skuce95, abstract = {CODE4 is a general-purpose knowledge management system, intended to assist with the common knowledge processing needs of anyone who desires to analyse, store, or retrieve conceptual knowledge in applications as varied as the specification, design and user documentation of computer systems; the construction of term banks, or the development of ontologies for natural language understanding. This paper provides an overview of CODE4 as follows: We first describe the general philosophy and rationale of CODE4 and relate it to other systems. Next, we discuss the knowledge representation, specifically designed to meet the needs of flexible, interactive knowledge management. The highly-developed user interface, which we believe to be critical for this type of system, is explained in some detail. We finally describe how CODE4 is being used in a number of applications.}, added-at = {2006-03-24T16:34:33.000+0100}, author = {Skuce, Doug and Lethbridge, Timothy C.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/248e9aed0ef29b90e1f2e3c5c9ae57673/neilernst}, citeulike-article-id = {121556}, comment = {a system to "amplify human intelligence" rather than autonomous knowledge-processing environment, one which operates at the knowledge level - few knowledge workers (what is this, undefined) use a true knowledge engineering tool, most use word, excel, db, etc. - problems with KM tools: too narrowly focused, unusable, no interchange, unknown tools - not intended to be a robust KA tool (limited logical inference) - seems to me the question for all these tools is what are the intended uses? who needs the complex inferencing support that OWL provides? I guess it's a good design decision to provide three 'flavours' of OWL - "but for our purposes we have found classification to be of no advantage: no user has ever expressed difficulty in performing classification, and in fact rarely really does it" - a lesson for the NCI? - "Cyc is a very large and complex system (in a class by itself in terms of scale), and assumes that knowledge enterers are highly trained and, in particular, understand its complex ontology (Skuce 1993d)." note the phrase understand its comples ontology - progressively formalizable KR language - CODE4 interface and KR system seem highly similar to Protege - most importantly see section 3.3 p21 on knowledge maps (graphs) of the concepts in the KB. The maps can be changed and concepts added or deleted - use three different 'browsers' to explore and navigate the map: matrix, outline, graphical - I like this concept of separating the way the information is stored (the map) from the way it is browsed (the browser) - not much detail on 'why' these browsers (particularly graphical) are useful ("our experience") - see p.30 on how seng is being influenced by developments in KE (req engineering, ) - the issues in designing a SUO are uninteresting and I think unsolvable, as they require broad consensus on broad topics - no mention on usability of this system: who adopted it, what problems does it have, etc. But I liked the focus on the UI. - three ways to vi}, description = {sdasda}, interhash = {681e31c1ca1a796765b2f16d44451f4b}, intrahash = {48e9aed0ef29b90e1f2e3c5c9ae57673}, journal = {International Journal of Human Computer Studies}, keywords = {representation knowledge visualization}, pages = {413--451}, priority = {0}, timestamp = {2006-03-24T16:34:33.000+0100}, title = {C{ODE}4: {A} {U}nified {S}ystem for {M}anaging {C}onceptual {K}nowledge}, url = {http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nernst/papers/code4journal.pdf}, volume = 42, year = 1995 }