Knowledge Tree

Overview

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Knowledge Tree is a link aggregating portal. It presents content structured according to the folder-document paradigm. Knowledge Tree provides authentication and authorization and implements a simplified form of access control. It supports collaborative authoring and social annotation. Knowledge Tree is primarily oriented towards ADAPT² architecture.

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Usage

Knowledge Tree has been intensively used as learning portal in the following courses

School	Course	Learning tools	Adaptation tools
[School of Inf.Sci. University of Pittsburgh]	IS0012	WebEx	CUMULATE

Features

• Authoring
  • Document and folder creation and management
  • WYSIWYG editor for documents/folder descriptions
  • Adding resources from RSS feeds
  • Configuration of access control (view,edit,add)
  • (Conditional) hiding of folders and documents
• Adaptation
  • Tacking user navigation via CUMULATE
  • (Conditional) adaptive navigation support via PERSEUS
• Social/Community based
  • Note-taking
  • Ratings (under development)

Screenshots

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  Knowledge Tree

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  Knowledge Tree. Editing folder description

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  Knowledge Tree. Adding resources from RSS feed

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  Knowledge Tree. Editing notes

Standardization

Knowledge Tree structure is partially serialized as RDF. For more information refer to Knowledge Tree RDF Binding.

Contacts

Michael V. Yudelson