Conceptual Navigation and Multiple Scale Narration in a Knowledge Manifold

This paper discusses conceptual organization and exploration in the context of a Knowledge Manifold, which is a framework for individualized learning that was introduced in [(10)]. It also presents an overview of the Garden of Knowledge as an example of a KM and describes the basic design goals of the GoK project. Moreover, the paper introduces the idea of a concept browser and presents a set of design principles for such browsers based on a strict separation of context and content, contextual descriptions in terms of concept maps expressed in UML, and viewing of the content components through various aspect filters. Finally, this paper introduces the concept of multiple scale narration, and illustrates this idea by an example that shows the browsing of an archive of components at multiple scales of resolution based on the dimensions of clarification and depth.