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Active Areas of Development
The community that maintains Clio Knows has divided up its tasks into several sub-projects, under the assumption that every well-placed bit helps and everybody can contribute somewhere. Check out the list below and see which things best fit your story.
Design Group
We are concerned with figuring out what things needs to look like before they get tackled or implemented. Our current hot items are:
Question Gathering Group
Since the primary product of this project is a repository of history questions, this group is involved with actually getting these questions together. Right now, we divide our work into usecases. Our current hot items are:
- Salem Witch Trial Usecases
- Roman Economy Usecase
- Sima Qian Usecase
- Synoptic Gospels Usecase
- Usecase Election Committee
We work tightly with the scavengers, to make sure we dont invent new questions when old ones or other ones that fit our copyright license could be used.
Translation Group
We want to support as many ontologies and representation approaches/languages as is feasible and helpful to KR&R research. But someone has to make sure that all of the question sets and usecases are available in all KR formats for all major reasoning systems, etc etc. That's us. We also work closely with the 'meta-knowledge store group, who is after all housing what we are producing.
Our current hot items are:
Tools and Programming Group
We handle the code-monkeying for the other groups. We keep the SourceForge site up to date and running (e.g. the wiki, the website, nightly builds, etc). We also write the converts for the different representation languages and ontologies. We are big on XML transformations; everyone should have their DTD. Our current hot items are:
- Evaluation of RCyc as MetaKnowledgeStore
- TechRisk assessment of XML processing tools
- Nightly Backups Hosting
Proselytizing and Scavenging Group
We make sure that the people who find out about this project find out. We try to identify early adopters, potential collaborators, useful contributors, etc.
We also make sure that we benefit from work that fits our license where we possibly can. This project is enough work without thumbing one's nose at prior work (provided it is available under the right conditions).
Bake-off Group
We look into ways in which different representations or interpretations of the same historical events can compete against each other. We investigate metrics and ways in which to assess explanatory power or representational aspects. This relies heavily on strategies of Argumentation, which is its own separate research area in Artificial Intelligence and has been gaining in importance recently (cf. 06 et al).
