State-of-the-art
From AKBAN-wiki, the Martial Arts Database
The benefits of sharing
Many fields have benefited from the sharing and distribution of safe knowledge and training methods. The huge amount of material practiced in our organization has forced us to find means to organize and validate the techniques we use. We found our knowledge to be lacking in some fields and our ability to perform all the martial techniques we are interested in, sometimes flawed.
Organizing visual materials in a semantic web
We created this mash up between two user generated platforms: Wikimedia and youtube, and discovered that it can help us reap even more benefits in three particular areas:
- Orientation in the vast field of Ninjutsu and related martial arts we practice.
- Gathering hidden connections. With our unique system to describe relations between techniques (example at the bottom of this article) we can learn many things we did not know because of a narrow focus point.
- Constant improvement - one of the main AKBAN themes. With this powerful tool we can hone and refine the techniques, get valuable feedback and improve.
We did this by:
- Tagging the video with categories and nestling the categories inside meta categories with the use of a logical tree. Since the techniques are not physical entities they can be "inserted" into many such trees. It so happens that some of the categories overlap and so we have Juji gatame residing in "Fighting from a position", in "BJJ by goal/submissions" and in "Budo Ninjutsu/Ne waza".
- Making the techniques relate to each other and giving the connections an attributes.
This was done by using a semantic wiki. It allows us to think of ways that the techniques, the visuals, react with each other. examples of relations are:
- What is the counter of the technique?
- What moves does this technique react to?
- Which techniques are similar to the current one?
- What are the principles of performing this technique? (Tutorial)
Etc.
