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# Knowledge Federation 2008
First International Workshop on Knowledge Federation

### Proceedings of the First International Workshop on
Knowledge Federation
Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 20-22, 2008.

Edited by

### Dino Karabeg *
Jack Park #

* University of Oslo, Faculty of Computer Science, POB 1080 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
# The Open University, Knowledge Media Institute, PO Box 197, Milton Keynes MK7 6BJ, United Kingdom

## Table of Contents

Preface

1. Knowledge Federation Patterns
   Dino Karabeg
2. Knowledge Federation: Necessity and Required Technologies
   Yuzuru Tanaka
3. Knowledge Federation as Hypermedia Discourse
   Simon Buckingham Shum
4. Knowledge Gardening as Knowledge Federation
   Jack Park
5. From Subjects to Concept Clouds - Why semantic mapping is necessary
   Hendrik Thomas, Bernd Markscheffel and Tobias Redmann
6. Knowledge Federation from a Knowledge Organization Perspective: A Position Paper
   Alexander Sigel
7. Knowledge Federation as a Principle of Social Organization of Knowledge Creation and Sharing
   Dino Karabeg and Roy Lachica

17-Dec-2009: submitted by D. Karabeg
21-Dec-2009: published on CEUR-WS.org