Our next natural question is— “Who will create, and do, knowledge federation?” or “Who will create and put into practice the knowledge-work systems that are capable of doing knowledge federation?” We again name the answer ‘Knowledge Federation’ (community), and we describe it tentatively as follows: Knowledge Federation is the transdiscipline for knowledge federation.

Notice that the conventional disciplinary organization in knowledge work is not the answer. We let the transdiscipline be the name of a complementary and remedial organizational form, where experts and stakeholders from a suitable combination of backgrounds come together to work on a question or design task of contemporary interest. Knowledge Federation creates the transdiscipline model by bootstrapping (using itself as prototype or sandbox). It then continues to federate or create relevant knowledge, including principles, methods, tools, exemplars...