Ivo Velitchkov
Ivo Velitchkov
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Viability of Personal Knowledge Systems
A recording of my talk at the Mataphorum conference in Manchester, June 2023.
Effective personal knowledge management (PKM) systems can significantly enhance the productivity and creativity of their users. But some of them go beyond that and augment thinking in a new way. They are reliable surprise generators, enabling highly original thoughts, creativity and problem-solving. Maybe most remarkable of all is that such systems can take a life of their own and become real collaborators. And they don't need any AI for that, just a few simple enabling conditions and practices. They don't even need to be digital. Luhmann's Zettelcasten, his practice of using a carefully organized yet highly flexible and open-ended system of connected paper slips, worked as a reliable communication partner for 45 years and helped him produce 70 books and 400 papers and revolutionise sociology. Today, a new generation of these so-called Tools for Thought brings such PKM practices to a new level.
The objective of this talk was to draw attention to this phenomenon and try to answer the following questions. How is it possible for a simple note-taking system to have viability? What are the conditions for this to happen? And what if such living variety amplifiers get connected and amplify each other?
More info:
Slides: roamresearch.com/#/app/nodebook/page/UMS-yhuzF
Book website: personalknowledgegraphs.com
Blog series: www.strategicstructures.com/page_id=925#pkm2023
This talk was recorded by the College of Exploration. You can find more about them at www.coexploration.org.
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Knowledge Graphs for Personal Knowledge Management
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Online session at the Knowledge Graph Conference 2023 | book: personalknowledgegraphs.com | slides: roamresearch.com/#/app/nodebook/page/jh2majBKL Personal Knowledge Graphs graphs are a new and still marginal breed of knowledge graphs. But maybe they have the most significant potential to revolutionize our work and thinking. We can even rethink personal computing. In this talk, I tried to revie...
Better Project Management with Knowledge Graphs
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Recorded online session at PMI Fair Benelux 2021. Slides: roamresearch.com/#/app/nodebook/page/PGI0Po19n Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are at the forefront of the digital transformation at global, enterprise, and personal levels. They make F.A.I.R science, better AI, a more ethical decentralized web, efficient and sustainable enterprise data integration, and boost personal productivity and creativity....
Productive Organisational Paradoxes
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This POP talk was recorded on 21st of January 2019 in London at a SCiO open day. Most of this story, but told gently, is in Chapter 5 of essentialbalances.com. The slides are available at www.strategicstructures.com/wordpress/?p=1511. Short description It is often said that organisations are full of paradoxes. But this refers to contradictions and tensions. It is understood as something that ne...
Bring data from Wikidata and any other LOD Knowledge Graph to your Roam graph
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This is a short video about a RoamJS extension importing and linking data from Wikidata based on pages and blocks. With it, you can also run any SPARQL query against any SPARQL endpoint and bring the data structured the Roam-way. You can get the extension from roamjs.com/docs/extensions/sparql SPARQL queries used in the presentation: Timeline of US presidents: t.co/tvOeWK7qBM What is linked to ...
Personal Knowledge Graphs: why, what, and where to?
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A follow-up event of the ENDORSE conference. Slides: www.strategicstructures.com/?p=2246 and roamresearch.com/#/app/nodebook/page/wHOTnEHym Book: personalknowledgegraphs.com/ The market for Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) software boomed in the last 18 months. As in many other digital areas of accelerated growth, the pandemic served as a catalyst, but the trend was evident before that. And ...
Semantic Hacks for Roam
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Thank you to KGC for providing this video. Get 25% OFF your first three months of the KGC Video Library. Click here: knowledgegraphconference.vhx.tv/checkout/subscribe/purchase?code=path&plan=monthly . Here I share a couple of semantic hacks for Roam and some thoughts on the evolution of Personal Knowledge Graphs. This session was part of the workshop "Paths to More Personal and Collaborative K...
ERA Knowledge Graph -- Linked Data Pilot at the EU Agency for Railways
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This is a presentation of a pilot Linked Data project at the EU Agency for Railways, realised by the Directorate-General for Informatics of the European Commission in partnership with GOPA and a team from UGhent/imec. Slides: roamresearch.com/#/app/nodebook/page/7AFcyH_Zr
Ivo Velitchkov interviewed by Estes Parк Group
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Original Source: Estes Park Group hosted by Semantic Arts
ESSENTIAL BALANCES webinar at SCiO.be
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This is the most recent and the longest Essential Balances session recorded. The seminar was organized by SCiO* Belgium. At that time only the Kindle edition of the book was available. Now the paperback and audiobook are out as well. Find out more at essentialbalances.com. *SCiO (Systems and Complexity in Organisation) is a community of systems practitioners who believe that traditional approac...
Barriers to the uptake of Linked Data (ENDORSE 2021)
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The is the recording of my talk at the ENDORSE Conference. You can find more information and link to the slides at www.strategicstructures.com/?p=2193
Essential Balances in Organisations, Metaphorum 2019, Huizen
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This talk is a short overview of Essential Balances (essentialbalances.com) presented at a management cybernetics conference as a demonstration of a way to reach outside the systems and cybernetics bubble.
What can Social Systems Theory bring to the VSM?
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The slides animations supporting my talk at the Metaphorum conference in Düsseldorf, November 2018. You can get them as PDF from here: www.slideshare.net/kvistgaard/what-can-social-systems-theory-bring-to-the-vsm.
SASSY Architecture
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My presentation at the Enterprise Architecture summer school 2018 in Copenhagen. Only slides with animations. You can get the PDF from Slideshare: www.slideshare.net/kvistgaard/sassy-architecture.
The Mind of Enterprise
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The Mind of Enterprise
Reasoning with Taskless BPMN
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Reasoning with Taskless BPMN
Productive Paradoxes in Projects
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Productive Paradoxes in Projects

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  • @abdulrahmanomar6858
    @abdulrahmanomar6858 Місяць тому

    It was a moment of serendipity to find this channel which then introduced me to other moments while discovering the world of knowledge graphs! I have sent the details of this story to your inbox as a reply to the latest newsletter about serendipity sent on the 3rd of August.

  • @bfillip1
    @bfillip1 5 місяців тому

    Yes! Thank you. This is what I have experienced as well. I am experimenting with TiddlyMap as a personal knowledge graph.

  • @AR-ym4zh
    @AR-ym4zh 6 місяців тому

    Fantastic talk thank you.

  • @gerasimoseleftheriotis4867

    I might be out of topic, or have a complete misunderstanding of the subject at hand, however this is my experience regarding PKM. I've dabbled with PKM for my day to day work, as well as tasks, knowledge and lessons gained from topics I've either discussed in depth, or experienced, that I should hold to a higher standard than simply trying to internalize & "forget." I try to use a sort of primitive PKB to hold all of these topics. However, it seems like, at least in the tool I use, which is Joplin, there's friction in the way of trying to "tag" these notes smartly. I can categorize them in a general sense, e.g. these notes are for "work", these ones are for "family" etc. however any further association is tough to do; The biggest problem I've faced is "how fine-grained should I tag my notes according to their contents"? It's tough for me to answer this; I don't have any professional experience in this area for organizational KM or societal KM. It's also alot of work, because if all you want to take are notes/excerpts from a source you're reading and you have to tag them & ask yourself multiple times the question of "to what degree" should you be tagging the note itself, this becomes bothersome and probably prohibitely expensive regarding "time taken", depending on the length of the note of course. Tagging'll still be a fraction of the time it took myself to write the note initially, however I cannot see the benefits because whenever I've tried to use these tags somehow, e.g. either by filtering by tag to get back to something old, I've found that oftentimes I've most likely not tagged it "correctly" for my question at the time. What I want to get at is this: knowledge is as useful as the metadata that describes the knowledge itself. This is especially true the bigger the data gets; it is prohibitively expensive in terms of time and money to do this manually, especially for PKM since you're not dealing with "business data" often that are well defined and categorized. My couple of questions is this: do you have a practical scenario that PKM could be used in day to day life for regular people (not work necessarily)? Do you think the "tagging" issue I aforementioned, assuming it is valid and fair, will be one that'll be solved with LLMs eventually, or a simpler but just as good narrow AI? EDIT: it's worthwhile to note that, as you mentioned, the traversibility of the graph is important, however I'd like to add presentation as a second point, if we're able to make any sense of a given topic. Given that our interests, and perhaps our personal notes and not professional ones, wide and shallow instead of narrow and deep, this might even make it borderline impossible to use a "sane" (perhaps static) schema to usefully define our notes, if we're to use such a PKB to query such a huge variety of topics whose nodes might be partially interconnected.

    • @kvistgaart
      @kvistgaart Місяць тому

      What works for me daily are PKM tools that are block-centric (every paragraph is a node in the graph). My system of tagging is based on an ontology(evolving but controlled) and taxonomy(open and flexible). The most useful "tags" so far are some classes (Issue, Event etc), people, dates, and projects (including mini-projects like writing an essay).

    • @gerasimoseleftheriotis4867
      @gerasimoseleftheriotis4867 Місяць тому

      @@kvistgaart Hi, thanks for taking the time to reply. Since writing this comment, I've given up on tagging notes by any sort of criteria, and I've just used the 'Global Search' of Joplin, which does search contents. This works well for anything that does not involve historical data, e.g. versioning of a note if any details changed since etc. I came to the conclusion that, personally at least, manual PKM w/ respect to time taken, is impossible. Since then, with the release of LLMs that can be self-hosted, and have a huge context length, models like llama3.1:70b work surprisingly well for most tasks regarding PKM, apart from versioning. Even though I am very critical and very skeptic against LLMs due to hallucinations, costs and other issues, completely offloading the cognitive burden of organizing and filtering your stream of conciousness is the way to go. RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) w/ 'efficient' (models in the range of 20b-80b range) looks ideal. Honestly, PKM as a manual process should fade in time. Unstructured data was never a good fit for structured processes, and the granularity is a perpertual process you cannot ever win; the chaotic nature of LLMs seem to be the ideal solution here, just how NoSQL was the solution to a similar issue for data storage. Their usefulness for 'chatting' with resources & interconnected topics seems to be most evident when using services like Phind & Perplexity, and I'm convinced this is the way going forward. I wish Obsidian and other PKM tools/applications start experimenting with this approach, as it seems far easier & far more organic to 'chat' with your most related notes (per query), and by extension your stream of conciousness at the time of writing the notes. I've read several esoteric blog posts regarding this topic, and judging by my experience w/ the state-of-the-art RAG (so-called agentic RAG), it's truly remarkable what these tools can do. Apologies if this sounds like some sort of sales pitch, but it's not often I get to share my excitement for a viable esoteric solution to an already esoteric topic :). Thanks again for taking the time to reply!

  • @kvistgaart
    @kvistgaart Рік тому

    The Personal Knowledge Graph book is now available for pre-order. Check out personalknowledgegraphs.com Kindle version first, then other formats and stores.

  • @rogerbarrow5406
    @rogerbarrow5406 Рік тому

    Hello Ivo. I watched your talk at The Knowledge Graph Conference 2023 online. I wanted to know if you see research papers being represented by PKGs in the future.

    • @kvistgaart
      @kvistgaart Місяць тому

      Can you please clarify your question?

    • @rogerbarrow5406
      @rogerbarrow5406 Місяць тому

      @@kvistgaart I meant whether or not you see the content in research papers being represented by personal knowledge graphs in the future.

    • @kvistgaart
      @kvistgaart Місяць тому

      @@rogerbarrow5406 That would certainly be valuable. And one of the many reasons is the exploratory search increases the likelihood of serendipitous episodes, something very important for research. There will be an attempt to create similar KG, not from papers, but from transcripts of the talks of the forthcoming CDL conference www.connected-data.london

  • @abdulrahmanomar6858
    @abdulrahmanomar6858 Рік тому

    Thank you for sharing this! I am not sure whether you might see my comment but I had questions: How does this help you in your personal knowledge management process? I generally link with my own created nodes, but having external nodes that I don't know about them seems to be blocking my thought process.

  • @klausss
    @klausss 2 роки тому

    Frankly, it looks very confusing.

    • @kvistgaart
      @kvistgaart Рік тому

      Indeed. Showing only the principles would not be sufficient but I understand why this particular demo can be confusing.

  • @kaplansedat
    @kaplansedat 2 роки тому

    Ted Nelson's spirit was here. This is "mother of all demos" for me. thanx so much. Brilliant. You have perfectly summarized the concepts and relationships that those working in the field have difficulty in explaining. And doing this with the benefit proposition of this field increased its effect even more.

  • @briananzaldua
    @briananzaldua 2 роки тому

    Wanted to learn about knowledge graphs and this presentation was so theoretical about the underpinnings of a knowledge graph I found it useless in helping me discovering a tool and getting a sense of how it would work.

  • @yash.mimani
    @yash.mimani 2 роки тому

    Absolutely loved your articulation and conceptualization of the space Ivo! thank you for cutting through the noise :)

  • @GeneBellinger
    @GeneBellinger 2 роки тому

    Really enjoying this Ivo. Thanks for sharing!

  • @juanmgoncalves
    @juanmgoncalves 2 роки тому

    What is the tool that you used for the "meeting" demo ? Is it roamresearch ?

  • @michalpavlovic6315
    @michalpavlovic6315 3 роки тому

    The audio does not work here.

    • @kvistgaart
      @kvistgaart 2 роки тому

      There is no audio, just slides with animation. But there is a talk that covers big part of this that I just published ua-cam.com/video/WfX1J2m8w_8/v-deo.html.

  • @egmacep
    @egmacep 3 роки тому

    Great talk Ivo! The principles around personal knowledge graph are really nice and sexy. Beyond the tech barriers, I can see that the current business models in the Internet are based on intensively mining and exploiting the personal data of people. So, we need those business models become obsoletes, I mean, new ones will emerge to make the change to wave 3 possible. I can imagine this will happen when this wave of big data will pass away and the industry focus more in the value of small data. Big data is good but not anyone needs to have big data to succeed in business. Helpfully, the change is already started

  • @vicky__p
    @vicky__p 3 роки тому

    And a link to "Solid": solidproject.org/

  • @vicky__p
    @vicky__p 3 роки тому

    For those looking for the UA-cam link mentioned at around 23:00 - ua-cam.com/video/F1HYaGfqzLM/v-deo.html

  • @chendii
    @chendii 3 роки тому

    Very interesting. Could a higher resolution video be uploaded? The text was too low quality to read

  • @GeorgePetrov-mrge
    @GeorgePetrov-mrge 3 роки тому

    Thank you for the presentation. I hope your vision about PKGs will became reality!

  • @victorr.rodriguez7523
    @victorr.rodriguez7523 3 роки тому

    Amazing talk. I would love to see more of your ontology system in action. Thanks!

    • @kvistgaart
      @kvistgaart 3 роки тому

      Once I find some time I'll share it with explanation how to use it.

    • @kvistgaart
      @kvistgaart 2 роки тому

      Here it is twitter.com/kvistgaard/status/1511336454802317314

  • @TomBielecki
    @TomBielecki 3 роки тому

    Ivo! Fantastic presentation. I was blown away by your ontology demo :)

    • @kvistgaart
      @kvistgaart 3 роки тому

      Thanks. There is a better demo of it in the recording of the Knowledge Graph Conference workshop on PKG ua-cam.com/video/F1HYaGfqzLM/v-deo.html .

    • @kvistgaart
      @kvistgaart 2 роки тому

      Here it is twitter.com/kvistgaard/status/1511336454802317314

  • @MarkLambertz
    @MarkLambertz 3 роки тому

    Excellent!

  • @eddyvanderlinden7097
    @eddyvanderlinden7097 3 роки тому

    Very good and pragmatic solution! Thank you Ivo.

  • @TeodoraPetkova
    @TeodoraPetkova 3 роки тому

    Thanks for an insightful talk!

  • @andreyyuritsyn9776
    @andreyyuritsyn9776 4 роки тому

    Thank you, Ivo! Valuable experience is in the slides here. I’ll reproduce couple of them related to trust and autopoesis in my presentation if you don’t mind. Anyway it will be in Russian, and I’m going to mention your name as author. Thanks