Assissted Knowledge Discovery and Publication System and Method

Abstract

A system and method is presented for knowledge discovery that incorporate both human and computers to index, process, and communicate and share the knowledge and electronic contents. It also provides a platform for launching unlimited number of qualified and content reviewed publishing / broadcasting ventures. The system assists individuals for faster and more efficient discovery / creation of new and useful knowledge, and valuable artistic content. It also provides incentives to the owners of the ventures and a method for rewarding or compensating all contributors.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED FOREIGN PATENT APPLICATION [0001]The present application claims priority to Canadian patent application No. CA 2,595,541, filed on Jul. 6, 2007 entitled “Assisted knowledge discovery and publication system and method” by the same applicant.FIELD OF INVENTION [0002]This invention generally relates to knowledge discovery, content creation, and content sharing using people, computer systems, software program agents, and databases.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003]Internet has provided a long awaiting tool for connection and communication of people around the world. One of the most important applications and implication of Internet is its use in enhancing ideas and rapid information exchange between people or groups of people with similar interests. Such growing interest has created many applications and systems for group discussions and question answering, such as Yahoo ask, wikipeida, search engines, photo and video sharing, numerous portals, discussion grou...

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Benefits of technology

[0007]In this application a system and method is presented for knowledge sharing and discovery by analyzing the content of online repositories, building an association database of ontological subjects, and solicitation of electronic contents in the form of a text, audio, or video and any combination of them. The system and method can assist and guide the users and creators, regardless of their level of knowledge, to being able to make valuable contributions, while shortening the research and creation time significantly. The shared knowledge is peer reviewed by authorities in each subject so that their quality and substance is more reliable than arbitrary qualified contents presently available in the Internet.

[0029]The present invention provides a system and method for faster and efficient universal knowledge discovery by firstly providing and presenting the worthwhile and important subjects to explore and work on. Secondly, by having built the map of ontological subjects of the universe, assisting and guiding users to explore, and to assess their work and discover new knowledge of the subjects as fast as possible. Thirdly providing an environment for rapid expert reviewed circulation and publication of new or filtered knowledge that it is more credible and rigorous than non-reviewed published materials over the Internet. The described system and method does not impose any limit on the number of subjects and the number of content being received, thereby enabling exploration of all possible subject matters of interest and importance to the public and science while it maintains the desirable standards of the published contents. This will bring the cost of useful knowledge discovery significantly down.

[0030]Moreover the invention provides a system and method that allows people to get a fast assessment of their work universally and have a rapid access to the authorities' comment on a creation that they have worked on. The described method further provides access to the most updated, yet assessed, ideas and state of the universal knowledge.

[0031]Among the advantages of the present disclosure, in a preferred embodiment, is having a central system that allow all the qualified experts launch their own publication / broadcasting ventures with the least amount of investment and overhead for commercial gain. Furthermore this invention provides a method for rewarding the contributors by measuring the impact of their contributions and sharing with them the commercial success or profit of the system accordingly, thereby encouraging the brightest to participate in the advancement of the state of the art and economics.

[0032]It is also another object of this invention to build an upper or universal knowledge repository or ontological subject map that can address all the queries while it is expanding over time. Such a map can help the users to confidently navigate through state of the art knowledge of universe and effectively guiding them in their research leading to new discoveries.

Problems solved by technology

However, since most of these knowledge sharing and contributions are arbitrary qualified, it takes time for general public to come to a robust and lasting understanding of a subject, or appreciation of a content.

Therefore, the vast amount of data, that is being generated daily, has to be filtered out over a relatively long period of time by collective wisdom of public before it can be used.

While in most subject matters of general public interest, ordinary people may contribute to the subject and let the fact and best solution to be found overtime, these unsupervised method of general public understanding growth lacks the rigor and credibility that is needed for a real advancement of public well being.

The rigor and credibility only comes after a relatively long period of time.

Mostly the information available through Internet needs further verification and research by the consumer and this could be time consuming and frustrating.

The process of peer reviewed scientific contribution publication, on the other hand, has the rigor and substance and therefore the credibility that is needed for true advancement of human knowledge, nevertheless it is a very slow process and does not present the speed and ease of accessibility that is necessary to tap into the vast potential of general public brain power and knowledge.

Editors and reviewers of scientific journals do not have much incentive to serve unknown ordinary contributors.

Moreover, naturally, they do not have the resources or expertise to find and cover all the subject matters of importance and assess and investigate all submitted contents.

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