Is Semantics search the end of 'information organization'?

Posted by Dellu
Apr 19, 2018 at 08:18 PM

Chris Thompson wrote:
>But as a researcher/notetaker, the task is a little more focused.
>There’s no shortcut to actually taking notes based on your own
>understanding in order to develop your personal understanding of a
>domain. It’s why having three dozen research papers on your hard drive
>ends up not being all that enlightening—even if you had a perfect
>semantic search engine for those papers—while having little personal
>write-ups/summaries, extracted personal highlights, and being able to
>sketch out interesting relationships you’ve noticed between concepts in
>those papers tends to lead to more complex understanding and the sort of
>insights you can develop to write novel papers/books. It’s this latter
>thing that hypertext systems like ConnectedText and spatial hypertext
>systems like Tinderbox are designed to help with.
> >—Chris

I fully agree. I just considered these points more of part of knowledge generation (rather than knowledge organization). I indeed need to structure my own take/points, deductions and extensions, of the ideas(concepts) in my notes. that is a way to construct and generate new knowledge. It is also possible that a reader constructs conceptual links or deductions that no artificial intelligence could emulate.