PT 5: Do we need custodians of knowledge?
Keywords
Custodians
Do we need
In historical and cultural contexts, custodians can refer to individuals or organizations responsible for preserving and maintaining valuable artifacts, historical sites, or cultural heritage. They play a crucial role in conserving and sharing cultural and historical knowledge.
In the legal and financial realm, custodians are individuals or entities responsible for the safekeeping, management, and protection of assets or property on behalf of another party.
a person who has responsibility for taking care of or protecting something.
who are 'we' referring to?
The question implying on opinions whether a particular thing, action, concept, or condition is necessary or beneficial
serves as a starting point for exploring the necessity, desirability, or urgency of a particular course of action or condition.
I think its exploring the benefits and implications of having custodians ok knowledge in the context of PT
Custodians of knowledge
individuals or institutions responsible for the preservation, transmission, and responsible management of knowledge.
make decisions about what knowledge to share, how to share it, and the potential consequences of its dissemination. This includes considerations of privacy, fairness, and responsible use of knowledge.
responsible for maintaining the quality and accuracy of knowledge. This may involve critical evaluation, fact-checking, and ensuring that information is reliable and trustworthy.
Custodians may also play a role in transmitting knowledge to others, whether through education, communication, or documentation. They serve as intermediaries between existing knowledge and those who seek to acquire it
Entities that have a duty to safeguard information, beliefs, or epistemic elements to ensure they are not lost or degraded over time. This can include preserving historical records, cultural heritage, scientific discoveries, and other forms of knowledge.
seen as caretakers of something valuable and important, and they are expected to act in the best interests of knowledge itself and, often, the broader community.
custodians of knowledge can refer to specific institutions or organizations, such as libraries, museums, universities, and scientific journals. These institutions have established roles in managing and disseminating knowledge within their respective domains.
"custodians of knowledge" suggests a responsibility to uphold the integrity and continuity of human understanding and the information that contributes to it. It highlights the importance of ethical, responsible, and diligent management of knowledge in various forms to ensure its availability and usefulness to current and future generations.
Revolves on guardianship or custodianship on private knowledge.
Perspective: Melanesian Solomon Islands tribe
Types of knowledge
Public knowledge
Specialised knowledge (focused on the article)
Sacred knowledge
Relates with seniority
Private knowledge
What significant is not the content of the knowledge but how something came to be known or a private purpose relates restricted knowledge to the way it affects relationships and/or is to be enacted.
"To be shared in a perpetual sense, knowledge must have knowledge guardians whose duty is to ensure knowledge as a good is cared for and looked after."
Inquiries
What is the difference between guardianship and custodianship?
What qualification does a person/something need to have to be a custodian/guardian of knowledge?
In the Melanesian Solomon Islands tribe, the right for custodianship lies in their principle of seniority.
mentions that those who, by their lives are a living proof of the knowledge (ethics education) are the ones with authority over such knowledge.
What does their right gives them onto the knowledge? Can they just give knowledge to the public? Can they use the knowledge just as they like?
The "house" of a person who truly understands and practices the knowledge gains credibility not by claiming it but by enacting the privilege of practice. One honours secret knowledge through the way one relates it
Is knowledge a set of expressions of wisdom or the teaching
that wisdom embodies? (??)
Does the person who discovered/created the knowledge holds absolute authority/custody over the knowledge?
Is it easy to hold custody over a knowledge? What is the wrong person holds custody over a particular knowledge?
AOKs: natural science and history
Indigenous people is the custodians of traditional knowledge
They are custodians of the knowledge because they are the ones that practices those knowledge which could benefits other people outside their community too
These people are needed for other people outside the community to take advantage of the knowledge in the future
Central inquiries
What are the benefits and implications of having custodians of knowledge
Do all knowledge need custodians? If no, what kind of knowledge needs a custodian?
Does custodians here only refer to people or there can be other things/concept/tools?
Terminology as custodians of knowledge
where term formation in response to knowledge transfer
The development and representation of knowledge need the methods and tools of knowledge transfer to provide continuity and expansion of human experience.
The study of special forms and usages of language thus confirms that terminology is an important contributory factor to making language as a whole into an extremely flexible and diverse instrument.
Continuous attempts from Aristotle to Descartes and Delgarno to create artificial languages of universal communication, as in the successful creation of taxonomic classification languages for the natural sciences, in both whiich terminology plays a key role
Arguments
Benefits of custodians
Limitation of custodians
A1: Custodians of knowledge play an important role in natural science by facilitating the seamless transfer of scientific insights and ensuring the preservation of precise terminology, thereby safeguarding the integrity and consistency of scientific knowledge during its dissemination.
A2: Custodians play a crucial role in the field of history by safeguarding and preserving private, valuable knowledge, ensuring its uninterrupted passage through time, and making it available for future generations to benefit from and build upon
To solidify the definition to a specific term
CA1: Misunderstandings or misinterpretations of scientific knowledge can still occur during the transfer process, particularly when complex or specialized terminology is involved.
CA2: The custodian protects the knowledge to the extent that no one can research about that knowledge, but it's important to recognize that decisions about what knowledge to protect and how to interpret historical records can be influenced by the biases and perspectives of custodians. Consequently, there is a risk that inaccurate or incomplete information could be preserved or that certain narratives may be favored over others, impacting our understanding of history.
Arg 1: To use the knowledge
Arg 2: To ensure continuity of the knowledge