Exhibition space of the Ontological Museum of the International Post-Dogmatist Group. The poetry on this site has been selected from 'CollagePoetry' postings.
Discussion of flaws and potential solutions to using social bookmarking sites (from del.icio.us to digg) as folks monetize, abuse, trick, and tweak them: no uniform tagging conventions, flat tag structures (non-relational), overly-generalized tags (catego
Source vs. Resource Ontology The notion of a resource is fundamental in current networked information systems. The term "resource" is used often, specifically in relation the World Wide Web and the W3C's semantic web activity, in standards such as Resour
The World Wide Database is a globally distributed network of data records that reside on millions of nodes around the network which collectively behaves as a giant virtual, decentralized database system...we need a new kind of server for hosting WWDB node
Identity is fundamental to ontology, and especially to information systems ontologies. Identity is well known in metaphysics and in database conceptual modeling. In the latter case, it is an accepted best practice to specify a primary key for rows in a ta
Part of the allure of classifying things by assigning tags to them is that the user can give free reign to sloppiness. There is no authority —human or computational— passing judgment on the appropriateness or validity of tags, because tags have to mak
A Semantic Wiki is a Wiki enhanced with technologies developed by the Semantic Web community in order to encode more knowledge than just structured text and hyperlinks. Usually this extra knowledge is available in a formal language, so that machines can (
The emergence of P2P Inference Engines and domain-specific ontologies in Web 3.0 (aka Semantic Web) will present a major threat to the central “search” engine model. In Web 3.0 (aka Semantic Web) P2P Inference Engines running on millions of users’ P
Annotea is a W3C Semantic Web Advanced Development project that provides a framework for rich communication about Web pages through shared RDF metadata. An RDF model of bookmark classification permits multiple classification systems to be related to each
Machines (or machine-based reasoning, aka 'AI software' or ‘info agents’) would then be able to use those laboriously –but not entirely manually– constructed ontologies to build a view (or formal model) of how the individual terms within the infor
Real life data needs are never semantically pure. Users need to browse their data in different ways. Hierarchies are too hard to reorganize on a whim. Stuff I need access to DOES NOT HAPPEN TO EQUAL the stuff at the top of the tree: Hierarchies are bad a