Everyday life is becoming more and more mixed with technologies used for knowledge production. People are adept at a variety of technologies that help them meet, interact and share information. We will explore how these new dynamics in personal and professional activities affect knowledge. How is knowledge created, with whom is it shared? Where is [...]

Both of the challenges addressed in this workshop, visualization and failure, are crucial for further development of the Web as a medium for creating and sharing knowledge. Presently, interests are often made invisible. This holds both for interests that have been built implicitly into knowledge products and for interests knowledge producers and users may have. [...]

Canonization of the world is an important problem. We are witnessing a rise in attempts to formalize key elements of historical and cultural heritage in the form of national or domain based canons, which are supposed to represent the core elements of what we should know.
Often these take the form of reading lists, although some [...]

Dedicated Web spaces have emerged to attract crowds around particular topics. Professionals share knowledge and facts through Wikipedia sites, teenagers and students make new friends in social networking sites, and scholars are trying out the benefits of collaboratories in a staggering variety of fields.
This increased collaborative work and networked life focuses on particular shared experiences [...]