Hypernomicon

I encourage you to check out Hypernomicon and/or get in touch with @RJasonWinning. Also, here is the FAQ: sourceforge.net/p/hypernomic…. Please feel welcome to get in touch with me regarding how to use this program for #scicomm and in the classroom. -@HardestyPhD

4) This activity would legitimize students' work and allow them to see themselves as future members of a field traditionally closed off to them. #DiversityandInclusion

3) A great assignment would be for a class to create its own curated database using assigned and found texts, AND students' own work. It can be powerful for historically underrepresented students to see their work actually in conversation with published work.

2) Instructors can also collect their students' database files and give formative feedback on their learning process as opposed to only the products of their learning. This allows for early intervention and more personalized feedback.

1) Regarding #highered: students can have difficulty staying engaged in a philosophy class due to how abstract the material can be. Hypernomicon can be a study tool or assignment which enables students to see themselves making connections between concepts and texts.

3) Philosophers could also share curated databases. At the 2016 @SocPhilSciPract meeting, there was talk of making a list of canonical texts for practice-oriented #philsci. Hypernomicon could do this in such a way that it makes philosophy accessible to scientific practitioners.

2) If you, qua member of a field, share your personal database complete with your links between concepts and annotations, you share your field's: standards for evidence, methods of reasoning, disciplinary thinking, and way of "speaking." This is invaluable to newcomers.

1) Regarding #scicomm: One of the challenges to becoming a member of a field is not just acquiring a particular quantity of information, but learning how pieces of information fit together and the debates about their relationships.

While this software was created for philosophers for their solo work, there are multiple ways it can be used for #scicomm and #highered. I will describe some of my ideas for this below. But for a Hypernomicon tutorial see: youtube.com/watch?v=JOTkAzh0… and youtube.com/watch?v=uS3Fm3IG…

There is a learning curve in #philosophy. A contributing factor is the amount of literature with which you have to be familiar to contribute. @RJasonWinning addresses this w/ @hypernomicon which organizes files and keeps track of semantic relationships: hypernomicon.org