steps to a new joenifesto

(I) Ongoing CC research

I found an interesting project based at Warwick about modelling the evolution of a field of research (DISCONEX), more precisely it "investigates how researchers do research in the social sciences and humanities." It would be interesting to try to expand that to computational creativity, where there's the possibility of evaluating computational products with professional peer review. Would that be makings of a research fellowship project?

(II) Mathematics recommender system

This is part of what I was initially planning to work on in my PhD research. Would ideas from recent work with Springer indexes help us build a "metadata map" of mathematics that might be useful here? Recent correspondence with Rasmus about "trans-communication" or "episemiotics" (good and bad) is related to this. The problem I noticed in my PhD is that even if we don't rely on artificial intelligence, but rather crowdsourced intelligence, the medium still needs to be fairly intelligent in order to help people make the kinds of connections they must make in order to help each other. It won't simply "self-organize" without quite a bit of work. So, this gives a research direction to the new PlanetMath stuff, the term-spotting stuff, and would connect it to the discourse things I've been working on with Alison et al., as a way to application. Sounds good to me.

(III) Peeragogy co-operative university

At the moment this doesn't seem to be clearly in the sights of anyone in the peeragogy project. That's not to say that we wouldn't be able to work on it. Again, we already tried once... but we'd need to dust off the application, make some changes, and try again. Maybe this is something that people like Laura Ritchie and David Preston would be interested in in connection their recent/forthcoming books, foundations, etc. But what does peeragogy really bring (again, in a rubber-meets-the-road sense)?

OTHER FACTORS

I haven't been getting outside as much as I'd like to; yesterday I had a nice time digging around in the garden, despite the very typical English weather. I should do that more often! With the days getting shorter maybe I need to do outdoor recreation in the mornings, rather than the (dark) evenings.

The phatics collaboration isn't listed above but it could likely turn into one or more great papers.