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Shaila

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A shaila is a pancontextual summary document. A person who creates a shaila is called a shailar. The Shailar-in-Chief for the Espian projects is Jeffarch.

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New Shailas

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Status

The current Talk:Shaila involves defining what form shailas should take with the current technology. "Someting is|'is better than' nothing" seems to be the rub. Shailas aren't just "something", but "something" would seem to be much less work.

Why no recent shailas? It's a lot of work to do by hand, regardless of the above paragraph. It's also limited to IRC, which isn't exactly the center of the espian universe (although it comes close).

Recent hacking at the log system by User:oierw has created a method to chop irc logs into topical chunks. Plans are to expand this with a tagging system to contextualize the chunks. More info aboutthis at IRC shailation mechanism.

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Fractal Shards (or Fairy Dust?)

Chatting with Jeffarch, we sorta both started to chitter at one another about what his shailas actually represent and how they work, and though we both said more or less the same thing Jeffarch captured it better by saying "it's like I can only produce fractal shards (fairy dust?) to sprinkle around to hope it helps define some larger concept" which I think is a really good encapsulation of a key shaila design pattern. Hence writing this stub here. Feel free to expand it!

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The Concept

Here's how the shaila concept was explained for the public in the espra concepts document for the 24weeks project:

"We have conversations of various kinds in various places. Some of the most important being those related to the common interest, traditionally regarded as politics. espra will enable enriched democratic conversations in public spaces and new forms of conferences, augmented by contextual summaries and voting systems amongst other things. As with many things enabled by espra, the physical world will be reflected in the virtual and vice-versa. One form of augmented dialogue that will be enabled is collective journalism. Everybody has a cameraphone these days and everyone has an point of view. espra enables people to report events that they have witnessed personally without being filtered out by the traditional media establishment and publish those reports globally in various formats in order to help to improve democracy and accountablity. Likewise, collaborative film making and music production/composition will also be enabled by leveraging espra's Collaborative Media Platform."

Shailas have traditionally been contextual summaries of the events discussed in, or reported to, IRC. Through automated logging of #esp and related channels, timestamps are available for indexing. Using topical categories (tags), summaries of current issues and their history can be presented. Sbp has written several great examples of expanding on contextual summaries of IRC and other sources. Such authors should be able to query the logs for a time span and topic(s) to aid in research for writing articles on the topic(s). An author could simply expand on the search results for the given topic. Similarly, a shailar would would use a narrow time span and a wide range of topics (all).

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Shailar Orientation and Training

A shailar will be required at each meatspace event as well as for each online venue. See Shailar orientation.

It may be a good idea to have multiple shailars for each, to account for personal schedules.

Prospective shailars will assist development of the shailar format/concept as well as associated tags/metadata. See Shaila formatting.

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Historical Data

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