Tinderbox Meetup SATURDAY September 16: Asst. Prof. Joel Chan Explores Research Collaboration with Roam, Obsidian, Logseq, and Tinderbox

[TomD (Tom Diaz)]

Looks like a fantastic meeting tomorrow, bummed I will not be able to attend with family in town.

but…if I were there…

Since Joel Chan is a Cognitive Scientist and Knowledge Management expert: I would want to know

1. What are his perspectives on how Discourse Graphs (which are very specific to academic discourse and the scientific method of query) are similar and different than Category Theory (from the abstract math realm)

2. How can Category Theory can be applied to knowledge management?

3.Outside of the scientific literature, how does he use knowledge management to maximize his knowledge discovery.

Here is a nice Discourse Graph written by @ShiJianhui for Tinderbox

Literature Review with Tinderbox

Hi! This is my workflow about setting up a smoothish transition from getting a PDF into Zotero, annotating it, extracting annotations, and pushing those into Tinderbox for further analysis. The last part is based on Discourse Graph concept, which in turn draws on Toulmin’s Structure of Arguments. It’s been written for beginner TBX users in mind, in the hope that it will help them take the first few steps in their Tinderbox adventure. I have found projects/examples/workflows shared by other co…

Looking forward to watching the recording next week. Cheers and have a great meeting.
Tom