Applicative Context: Road Map, Application Cases
Overview
The systematized knowledge commons include:
- a global agreement: the Convention on Knowledge Commons;
- a methodology: the Collective Regulative Bundle (CRB) methodology
- five dictionaries:
- on interactions (interact)
- on atomic entities (ens)
- on actants (roles that entities fulfill in interactions)
- on constraints
- on indicators
- two atlas:
- an actor atlas, with actor maps for relevant territories; each actor map has its own administrator
- an initiative atlas, with different kinds of nodes supporting multi-stakeholder initiatives (projects and programmes); each node has its own administrator. Baseline and blueprint nodes can be shared among various initiative nodes.
Application
On the basis of the systematized knowledge commons, new initiative nodes can be constructed to describe (requirements for) services supporting particular stakeholders; this is demonstrated by the Application Cases. Each case demonstrates the utility of the systematized knowledge commons in planning and implementing joint initiatives that follow the Collective Regulative Bundle methodology.
Each case will in principle be supported by a baseline, a blueprint and a number of initiative nodes. All these are listed in the initiative atlas. The initiative node should only contain those details of the case that cannot be included in any of the dictionaries, nor in the actor atlas, baseline nodes, blueprint nodes or existing initiatives in the initiative atlas. Guidelines for the initiative node are also provided.
CRB-compliant joint initiatives will feed, by creating wikis following the initiative node guidelines, the cumulative growth of the dictionaries and atlas while deploying their contents:
- Atomic entities such as principals, institution objects, entitlements and claims are described in the Entity Dictionary and interact according to patterns that are described in the Interaction Dictionary, yet are compliant to constraints described in Constraint Dictionary .
- Actor Network Theory allows both animate and inanimate actants to participate in interactions. In the Actant Dictionary, the possible roles in interactions of animate Principals, these are described in the Actor atlas, are refined, and added to it are other important classes of inanimate actants, such as documents, events and services.
- The description of patterns is largely neutral regarding valuations that establish proportions in the interactions, for instance, what is the price of a bread, or what income threshold separates the poor from the non-poor? To support further quantitative and qualitative refinement of the interactions and holdings of principals, we must use metrics and measurements. These are introduced in the Indicator Dictionary. The indicators support a range of activities, including the definition of attributes of Institution Objects and Principals, and the specification of quantities in interactions.
Ongoing Testing
A number of CRB-compliant test cases are being performed to test the modalities of the Convention on Knowledge Commons, to diffuse the use of the listed knowledge commons to a larger community, and to accelerate their joint development (Road Map).
DISCLAIMER: Each of the systematized knowledge commons, and cases such as the UN Climate Talks will be under construction for several more months, in several dedicated wikis.
