The Knowledge Curation Toolkit #2: WXMY for Interdisciplinary Curation

The advanced version of Theme U

Several days ago, I introduced the Theme U diagram and the HERO U diagram for Single-theory Curation.

In fact, the Theme U diagram is a simple version of the WXMY diagram. See the HERO U diagram below.

What’s the difference between the HERO U diagram and the above “When Theory Meets Practice” diagram since both two diagrams use six types of “objects of knowing”?

• They use different backgrounds.
• The HERO U diagram uses the simple U shape as background while the “When Theory Meets Practice” diagram uses three containers as background.
• The HERO U diagram doesn’t use lines to connect six types of “objects of knowing”.
• The “When Theory Meets Practice” diagram uses lines to connect six types of “objects of knowing”.

This article will focus on the WXMY diagram which is a meta-diagram for making the “When Theory Meets Practice” diagram.

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