Structure of the CAISOR Website Cluster

The previous page showed a few examples of research issues that I address or have addressed. Since the presentation of these activities must be multi-faceted and connected, I have chosen to use webpages as a publication medium, and to organize a collection of interconnected, persistent websites that address specific aspects of the work. The webpages provide linkage, structure, and overview; they also contain links to conventional research articles and reports that spell out the detailed results.

The CAISOR websites can be grouped under the following general headings:

• Knowledge Representation and Information Analysis (2 sites)
• Knowledge Representation, Computational Autonomy, and General Software Architecture (2 sites)
• Analysis and Development of Electronic Publishing Technology (5 sites), with particular emphasis on Open Access
• Common Basis for the entire cluster (4 sites).

Some of these sites are hosted at Linköping University, Sweden, others at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; their contents are the result of work at both of these two institutions. Most of them represent work that has been done in recent years, but some of it is older and may even go as far back as the 1960's. The following is an overview of the sites in each of the groups.

Common Basis for the Cluster

• MORADOR: Methodology of Research and Dissemination Of its Results. This site argues that the methodology of research in systems-oriented computer science needs to be made more clear than it is today, and proposes a paradigm for exploration-oriented systems research.

• CAISOR Hyperbook and Archive: An archive of research articles and reports during a 40-year period, and a collection of tutorial material in hyperbook form. Open access to the research articles in the projects shown below is provided by this repository.

• CAISOR-Leordo: This is the software tool that is used as a basis for several of the projects shown below. Leordo is a small and reasonably well documented subset of Leonardo which is the experimental system of one of the research projects (see below).

Sites for Knowledge Representation and Information Analysis

• CAISOR-KRF: The main site in this group. A Knowledge Representation Framework expressed as a suite of lecture notes. It is used in several of the projects described below.

• CKL, the Common Knowledge Library. This is an open-access fact and knowledge base presently containing almost 70.000 entities each with a number of attributes and values. CKL pays strong attention to quality control issues for its contents.

• INKA: Internet-Based Knowledge Acquisition and Publication Project. This project produces contents for the CKL knowledgebase and develops tools and techniques for this activity. The site also proposes Information Analysis as a worthwhile research activity with its own methodological character.

Sites for Knowledge Representation, Computational Autonomy, and General Software Architecture

• CASL: homepage of the Cognitive Autonomous Systems Laboratory at Linköping University, with research e.g. on methods for dialog between humans and autonomous robots.

• CAISOR-LEONARDO: A new approach to the design of general software systems, based on methods from knowledge representation research, and in particular using the CAISOR-KRF framework. A subset of it, called Leordo, is used as a platform for several of the other projects.

Sites for Analysis and Development of Electronic Publishing Technology

• ADEPT: As the main site in this group, this is an entrypoint for overview of our current activities concerning the Analysis and Development of Electronic Publishing Technology.

• KASP, a Knowledgebase Addressing Scientific Publishing. This is a section of the Common Knowledge Library (mentioned above) that contains information about scientific journals, their publishers, and some related topics.

• COAR, a Commentary on Open Access to Research, containing information and opinions on selected topics relating to Open Access. This is not a site for research results; its purpose is to provide information to researchers and students in our universities concerning Open Access and related topics.

• JARSS: the Journal Article Reviewing Support System, a software system supporting the operation of an editorial board.

• MADMAN: a system for Management of Articles, Data, Manuscripts And Notes. It is intended as a tool for a researcher or a research group, and as a complement to the JARSS system. (Under development).

Website Design Principles and Support

The design principles and design philosophy for these websites are described in the separate little website for the CAISOR Webstyle. Some aspects of them are also described in the site for CAISOR Hyperbook and Archive and in the old CAISOR entry page.

Additional sites that are also maintained using the CAISOR webstyle include:

• history.ida, the beginnings of a persistent website documenting the history of IDA - the Department of Computer and Information Science in Linköping.

• TDDA16, the webpage for one of the courses at IDA.

• TDDA23, the webpage for another one of the courses at IDA.