Doug Engelbart's Design for High Performance Innovative Organizations
Change Your Organization's Nervous System - “I have been a fan and follower of Doug Engelbart since I first discovered his work in the early 1970s. After his death in 2013, I revisited a videotaped interview I did with Doug in November of 1991 [in which Doug described] much of his seminal thinking about how to design high performance organizations. [...] In this article, I summarize a few of the high points from that interview.”
KMi meets with Doug Engelbart’s Pioneering Vision
KMi meets with Doug Engelbart's Pioneering Vision
“It became clear to all of us that these were prime examples of what Engelbart had long envisioned as Dynamic Knowledge Repositories, supporting the mediation and capture of dialogue, the collective updating by a distributed community of its knowledge, and the provision of advanced services that generate knowledge 'products' - flexible views onto the underlying knowledge repository.”
Designing hypermedia applications
Designing hypermedia applications
A special issue on Hypermedia - “the science of relationships... structuring, presenting, and giving users direct access to the content and interconnections within an information domain... navigation... 'blazing trails'... annotation... information overviews..." We open this special issue with contributions from two pioneers "as beacons of hypermedia’s potential to support people, teams, and organizations in the hypermedia field. Ted Nelson describes transclusion, the central feature embedded within the design of the Xanadu paradigm... Doug Engelbart describes features central to the design of an open hyperdocument system, which he believes will constitute the core of organizational information systems in the future. ”
Free access in PDF and eReader formats | Browse full issue including articles by Engelbart and Nelson.
Bootstrapping – en strategi för att förbättra förmågan till bättre förmåga
Bootstrapping - en strategi för att förbättra förmågan till bättre förmåga
“Kunskapshantering i en komplex och tidspressad verklighet” | Featuring Doug Engelbart's strategy "to improve the ability for better ability: knowledge management in a complex and time-pressured reality."
Teldok Rapport, Vol. 84, by Bengt Göran Wennersten, Stockholm, Sweden, ISSN 0281-8574 (97 pages).
Doug Engelbart’s Design for Knowledge-Based Organizations
Doug Engelbart’s Design for Knowledge-Based Organizations
“Doug Engelbart was driven to help people address really complex issues. One path is to support collaboration through the use of a Dynamic Knowledge Repository. [...] To Doug, bootstrapping is “getting better at getting better.” It’s at the heart of continuous innovation. He believes in the principle of leverage. Put your attention not on the thing you’re trying to design or do, but on how to IMPROVE the process you’re using to design or do, AND on also focus on how to improve your capacity to improve.”
This is a two-part article; see also Part 1: Intro | Part 2: Intro.
Two Men, Two Visions of One Computer World, Indivisible
Two Men, Two Visions of One Computer World, Indivisible
“With computer technology advancing at a lightning pace, it's hard to imagine that anyone could work on the same project for more than 30 years -- and still not finish it. But that is the case with two legendary figures of computerdom: Theodor Holm Nelson and Douglas C. Engelbart. The two men are very different.”
Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook
Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook
“This handbook is a guide to designing and implementing with hypertext, including a survey of current hypertext practices, with contributions from professional hypertext developers." Engelbart's chapter anticipates that the tools and methods of computer-supported cooperative work will become harnessed with revolutionary benefit to the ongoing, everyday knowledge work within and between organizations, necessitating interoperability between knowledge-work domains through something like the "open hyperdocument system" made available for widespread use.
Engelbart Chapter pp. 397-413 | Knowledge-domain interoperability and an open hyperdocument system
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