DYNAMIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL KNOWLEDGE CLUSTERING, MANAGEMENT AND REPRESENTATION SYSTEM

摘要

The present invention relates to a dynamic multidimensional knowledge clustering, management and representation system. The system works as an information system through which the user is able to add many levels of dimensions in and above an information space, and at the same time is able to explore, search, view and in other ways work upon the different dimensions and combinations of dimensions of information in the information space. The system is able to work upon information existing within the computer environment, information existing outside the computer environment, information inputted into the system, information derived from other information. Through this system, information from diverse sources can be structurised, managed, organised, associated, meta, contextualised, searched, explored, visualised and re-represented from a single platform. By utilising the concept of information spaces and information entities, which enables the system to create an environment where information spaces can be combined with a whole range of other concepts, the user is able to use many different metaphors to operate on information. These metaphors open up new possibilities for the ways the user can utilise and interact with the information environment, thus solving many problems users face when dealing with information in existing information systems, such as information overload, inability to easily correlate information, limitations due to information locality, inability to flexibly organise information within strict hierarchies, inability to express user ideas on any information. Strategic and flexible combinations of these metaphors when implemented in various embodiments of the present invention can thus enable users to operate on information within computer systems as if a natural extension of their ideas, rather than separate information stores. In one embodiment, the system is able to act as an information augmentation platform, where the user by using tools provided can express much more information upon existing information in available domains. In another example, the system is able to act as an information re-representer, where existing user information can be re-represented to express different, and often hidden, aspects of the information. In another example, the system is able to act as a common information management platform, where the user is able to consolidate different types of information required for a project or task from a multiplicity of sources into one common place, where this information can be structured and accessed coherently with high relevancy. The possible uses of this system are possibly manifold. The present invention changes way people store, retrieve, understand and see their information or knowledge. Users can now create meaning above information, penning down ideas, comments and adding dimensions into or above the information space. Work processes can thus be more seamless and information is made much more holistic and all rounded. Instead of users trying to work within a previously limited information space, users are now able to work within an extended, multidimensional, augmentable information space which allows for much more expressibility, allowing users to express or work using any form of information or idea above or within any information, knowledge or aspect of the information space.