[p2p-research] bildr, a lego for makers?

[Michel Bauwens]

perfect!

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Eric Hunting <erichunting at gmail.com>wrote:

> Here's my shot at this.
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> bildr - Another New Take On The Proposition Of Modular Knowledge -
> http://vimeo.com/6842613
>
> Not a lot of information is available as yet about bildr. It's presentation
> video provides a run-down of its basic concept. But it's a very powerful
> concept that, if implemented, could catalyze a breakthrough in open
> technology development. Currently, a number of open hardware projects have
> emerged dealing with the issue of collecting, organizing, and presenting
> open hardware knowledge in ways paralleling that of the open software
> movement and mediating the gap between human-readable information and
> machine-readable information. This has proven a daunting proposition
> because, unlike software, the media in which the larger sphere of technology
> knowledge is embodied is extremely diverse. Different engineering
> disciplines employ different systems of nomenclature and different graphical
> languages. Information is created in text, graphic, video, multimedia, and
> machine-specific forms. And data file formats for these different forms are
> endlessly diverse, often proprietary, and often not readily converted. But
> bildr offers an interesting possible approach to tackling this. It proposes
> a modular object-oriented structure for technical knowledge that would allow
> the designs for things to exist as a kind of network in a space of
> interdependent knowledge/component/design data that is owned by a
> user/developer community. Thus the designers of artifacts can build
> descriptions of their designs as assemblies of this elemental knowledge and
> makers of artifacts can drill-down through the interdependent links in this
> knowledge-base to get at information the designer need not specifically
> present. And, of course, it is proposed to integrate the full diversity of
> media in this knowledge-base with -presumably- some form of common platform.
> The potential of such a knowledge-base as a repository of open technology
> knowledge would be revolutionary and has ramifications far beyond bildr's
> goal of a knowledge-base for electronics. Indeed, as they develop this
> platform it is unlikely they will be able to contain its focus on
> electronics alone because of the way electronics intersperses with so much
> else. But to say their objective is ambitious is an extreme understatement.
> They have their work cut out for them.
>
> This general concept is not entirely unique to bildr and a growing number
> of groups are exploring this dream of a central digital repository of open
> technology from various angles. Collaboration seems, so far, a bit rare and
> is perhaps due to a general ignorance of the actual variety of efforts,
> adrift as they are in the noise of the Internet. We are in an exciting era
> of punctuated equilibrium in the ad hoc evolution of open technology and
> things can be a bit messy. But that is perhaps a necessity. It will be
> interesting to see what becomes of bildr and how far it gets in this
> emerging evolutionary competition.
>
>
> Eric Hunting
> erichunting at gmail.com
>
>
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> On May 24, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
>  > Hi Eric,
> >
> > I'm showing this video on the 2nd, see http://vimeo.com/6842613
> >
> > could you add some insightful commentary to it?
> >
> > Michel
> >
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