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
	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