Presented at Océ and Philips event, Eindhoven, Nederland on 9 November 2009.

1. From Scarcity to Abundance:
Ariadne and
the Snowflake Effect
Knowledge Productivity, Best, NL, 9 November 2009
Erik Duval
K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE & IEEE LTSC
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
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2. Thanks - merci - gracias - dank u-
köszönöm -
MANY thanks
for the invitation !
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3. http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval
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4. sorry: no nice old paintings
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5. My team:
technology enhanced
learning, music & research

6. Some ideas...
...my beach

7. learning is
(the essence
of being)
human
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8. in the end...
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
also for
is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
getting better at
is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is
productivity
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is
getting better
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
is life is learning is life is life is learning is life is learning is
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9. all learning resources available to all
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10. will not solve all the problems
but will act as motor for innovation
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12. Searchability
http://globe-info.org/
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13. Open
Educational
Resources
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14. technical core
• content: anything digital
• metadata: LOM
• minimal application profile
• harvesting: OAI-PMH
• open target with all metadata from all
• federated search: SQI
• registry: LODE
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15. Sure, there are a lot of problems remaining...
identity (people, content), dis-/re-aggregation,
IPR & copyright, packaging & format, user
tracking, vocabularies, and many more
But we are not making full use of what we have!
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17. communities are different...
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18. 131.436
http://lreforschools.eun.org/

19. 126.763
http://portal.mace-project.eu/

20. “Better problem”: abundance
but some way to go...

21. > 3.000.000.000 images
facebook
> 2.000.000.000 /mnth

22. > 1.000.000.000 videos/day
upload:
20 hours video/min

24. 44.000 sites
20.000.000 users
1.900.000 courses
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25. from scarcity to abundance
“better problem”
but still: a problem
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26. snowflake
• not only because all learning is personal
• and should be “just right”
• also because we are moving to abundance
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27. loads of good examples in music
iTunes Genius, last.fm, pandora.com, tunify.com, blip.fm,
deezer.com, grooveshark.com, mufin.com, yamelo.com,
jango.com, imeem.com, musicmesh.net, jiwa.fm, ...
and many many many many more
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28. snowflake in music...
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29. We do NOT (need to) understand how music works!

30. warning:
design is difficult...
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31. http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/laptop-fun/
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32. integrated
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/alocom/alocom_plugin/alocom_plugin.swf
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33. http://www.pri.univie.ac.at/~derntl/icoper/oics/demo/search-demo.html
http://www.pri.univie.ac.at/~derntl/icoper/oics/demo/wiki-demo.html

35. content is king
& context is queen

36. http://sharetec.celstec.org/gddf/mace_AR.mov

37. social context too!

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41. attention

44. Put together?
• know what
• makes me run
• slows me down
• powersong
• think social sharing

45. http://wakoopa.com/erikduval
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46. http://nebul.us/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKRB241WMNk
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47. http://www.rescuetime.com/
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49. From the trenches...
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53. Fits in my life… (PLE)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYqpWQcUIj4
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56. earn
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too
Text
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me
http://delicious.com/tag/mume09
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57. open learning?
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58. walled garden...
Joseph: ‘linking’
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59. in the end...
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
is life is learning is life is life is learning is life is learning is
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60. so
• make infrastructures interconnect globally
• ariadne, globe, standards
• please connect and join!
• create abundance as motor for innovation
• then focus on user experience
• personal, snowflake
• turns problem of abundance into solution
• learn from your users
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61. http://aspect-project.org/ http://www.icoper.org/ http://www.role-project.eu/ http://www.stellarnet.eu/
Questions?
http://erikduval.wordpress.com/
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
twitter: @ErikDuval
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