Papers, Presentations & Patents
See Musings for Ideas and Works in Progress.
- Group Spaces: A social networking platform for spontaneous instant meetings, collaborations, simulations and games. Provisional Application for Patent: http://www.tomwason.com/DOCS/WasonDirectedSocialNetwork.pdf. Summary:
Description of Group Spaces with examples and objectives.
- Haynes, J., Zbylut, M., Wason, T. & Maloor,
P. (2007). "The Play's the Thing"
Teaching High Level Skills through Dramatic
Simulations. Paper and Presentation for the
Interservice/ Industry Training, Simulation
and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) Conference,
2007.
- Norris, B. and Wason, T. "Air Force Institute
for Advanced Distributed Learning e-CDC Transition
Project, Executive Summary", http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/afiadl/ecdcproject.pdf,
18 January 2005.
- Cherry, A. and Wason, T. "Tag
and Go Seek: Ensuring Successful Tagging, Discoverability
and Reusability of Content." Paper and
Presentation for the Interservice/Industry Training,
Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC)
Conference, 2004.
- Wason, T., & Perrin, B. (2004) AFIADL Taxonomy
Project Final Report GSA Task Order ID: 4TFG57030729
Dec. 2004
http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/afiadl/adl/TaxonomyFinalReportDec2004.pdf
(select "Comments" to receive full report).
- Wason, T.D., Ed. (2003)."
Liberty Architecture Glossary" https://www.projectliberty.org/specs/draft-lib-arch-glossary-v1.2-07.pdf
- Kellomäki, S. & Wason, T., Eds. (2003).
Liberty ID-SIS Personal Profile Service Implementation
Guidelines. Liberty Alliance Project. Version:
1.0-29.
- Kellomäki, S. & Wason, T., Eds. (2003).
Liberty ID-SIS Employee Profile Service Implementation
Guidelines. Liberty Alliance Project. Version:
1.0-03.
- Wason, T. (2002). Taxonomies:
A presentation at the Army Knowledge Symposium
2002, April 1-4, 2002, Kansas City, KS.
- Wason, T., and Wiley, D. (2001). "Structured
Metadata Spaces" in Greenberg, J.(ed.),
Metadata and Organizing Educational Resources
on the Internet, NY: Haworth Press .
Co-published in the
Journal of Internet Cataloging (2000),
3 (1-3). Invited contribution. (Draft
in PDF format, also at: http://opencontent.org/docs/metadata_spaces.pdf)
- Wason, T. (2002). Concepts
and Subjects: a white paper differentiating
the two, supporting the development of concept
and subject maps.
- Hodgins, W., Wason, T., and Duval, E. (1998).
IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee
(LTSC) Learning Object Metadata (LOM) Draft
Document v2.1.
- Wason, T., Anderson, T., & Griffin, S.
(1999). IMS
XML binding of the IEEE Learning Object Metadata.
- Wason, T.D., Dr.
Tom’s IMS Guides:
- Dr.
Tom’s Guide to Reusable Content Objects:
The Technical SCO
- Dr.
Tom's Method of Multiples
- Dr. Tom’s
Meta-data Guide
- Dr.
Tom’s Taxonomy Guide
- Guía
de las Taxonomies del Dr. Tom
- Dr.
Tom’s Classification Guide
- Guía
de Clasificación del Dr. Tom
- Dr. Tom’s
XML Guide
- Guía
del Dr. Tom sobre el XML
- Dr.
Tom’s Guide to Content Packaging
- Dr. Tom’s
Guide to a simple path to Meta-Data implementation
- Dr. Tom’s
Guide to XML-Schema
- Dr. Tom’s
Guide to IMS XML Extensions and Incorporations
- Dr.
Tom's Method of Multiples: A Concrete
Taxonomy Development Method. www.tomwason.com/docs/MethodOfMultiples.pdf.
Multiple teams, multiple participants on
each team, multiple independently tasked
recorders create new taxonomies and new
knowledge. This method has many applications
beyond metadata and taxonomies. A Dr.
Tom Guide.
- Summary in translations:
- Résumé
en français.
- Resumen
en español.
- Sommario
in italiano.
- Zusammenfassung
auf Deutsch.
- Summary
in English.
- Wason, T.D. (1996).
"The Gutenburg Juncture." The
IAT Monitor, Issue #1 (A UNC-CH Insititue
for Academic Technology Web Journal). http://www.unc.edu/cit/iat-archive/publications/monitor/issue1/wason.html.
- Wason, T. (1993). Dissertation: Construction And Evaluation Of A Three-Dimensional Display From A Two-Dimensional Projection Surface Based On Theoretical Considerations Of Metrification And Affine Space, North Carolina State University.
- Lappin, J. & Wason, T. (1991). "The
perception of geometrical structure from congruence,"
Chapter 28 in Ellis, S. (ed.) Pictorial communications
in virtual and real environments, London:
Taylor & Francis. Previously published in
Ellis, S. R., Kaiser, M. K., & Grunwald,
A. (eds.), Spatial Displays and Spatial
Instruments; NASA Conference Publication 10032
pp 18-1 - 18-15.
- Lappin, J., Wason, T., & Akutsu, H. (1987).
"Visual detection of common motion of spatially
separate points." Bulletin of the Psychonomic
Society, 25, 343.
- Janssen, R. & Wason, T. (1987). U.S.E.P.A.
Internal Report: "A small animal ultrasound
auditory stimulation system."
Patents:
- US 5,751,927, Wason, T., 1998, Method and
apparatus for producing three dimensional displays
on a two dimensional surface
- US 5,020,108, Wason, T., 1991, Audible display
of electrical signal characteristics
- US 4,787,054, Wason, T., 1988, Interdial compensation
technique for angular position detectors
- US 4,754,411, Wason, T., 1988, Angular position
detector
- US 4,710,889, Wason, T., 1987, Angular position
detector
- US 4,704,690, Wason, T., 1987, Angular position
detector
- US 4,606,008 / ROC (Taiwan) NI-25618, Wason,
T., 1986, Angular position detector
- US 4,556,844, Wason, T., 1985, Apparatus
for mounting an electrical sensing device or
encoder on a data output indicator or meter
- US 4,477,860, Wason, T. & Cain, C., 1984,
Electrode array
- US 4,438,434 (1984) / CAN 1,194,956, Wason,
T., 1984, Self-sequencing data bus allocation
system
- US 4,433,332 / UK GB 2,059,593B / MEX 148,528,
Wason, T., 1984, Apparatus for remotely determining
the position of rotating objects
- US 4,034,661, Boosalis, M. & Wason, T., 1977,
Apparatus for heating and dispensing food articles
- US 3,893,554, Wason, T., 1975, Torque limiting
clutch
- US 3,761,186, Wason, T., 1973, Apparatus
for optically inspecting the condition of a
surface having known variations in the condition
Internationally, I have made numerous presentations and taught short-courses on metadata, taxonomies and related topics.
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