Linkiing and mapping knowledge and information is today's way developing new discoveries. Below is a quote from a BBC news article that describes the changing nature of scientific research.

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Researchers maintain that the very nature of knowledge is different in the digital age because information held on computers can be cross-referenced and linked.

That opens new possibilities and presents new problems of extracting meaningful and relevant information from largely unorganised data collections.

"Today, almost all of us access knowledge in ways vastly different from those used for hundreds of years," says Richard Shiffrin of Indiana University.

"The traditional method involved books, reference works and physical materials on library shelves, most of which had been verified for accuracy by one or another authority. Now, we sit at computers and cast our net into a sea of information, much of which is inaccurate or misleading."

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The whole movement toward microcontent publishing is an example of this trend taking place and we hope that QuickDraft will add value to these new human processes.
 
Microcontent can be anything from a link, a paragraph, a page, a part of a page, or an individual idea, picture, file, message, fact, opinion, note, data record, or any other kind of “content object.” QuickDraft is an organizing mechanism – a “hub” – for gathering microcontent from any and all sources, then using annotation and sequencing – storyboarding, in essence – to filter & recombine information in useful ways before presenting it either as views or as feeds for other consumers.


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