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Classification, Facets, And Metaproperties
Orthogonality in faceted classifications
A true polyhierarchy really needs its individual hierarchies to be independent or orthogonal. Types in one should be independent of types in the other. That there is in one hierarchy the type ‘Volt’ should have no implications whatsoever on the color hierarchy. In conception…
Does A Crossref Doi Identify A “work?” | Crosstech
Doi and expressions
Fundamentally, CrossRef DOIs are aimed at providing a persistent online citation infrastructure for scholarly and professional publishers. Consequently, decisions about where to apply CrossRef DOIs should be guided by common expectations about the way in which citations work…
Epigrams On Programming
Low level programming languages
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Levels of description
Any complex system can be described in different ways. Thus, for example, a car engine can be characterized in terms of its molecular structure, in terms of its gross physical shape, in terms of its component parts, etc. It is tempting to describe this variability of…
Consciousness and neurons, solidity and pistons
Think of it this way: roughly speaking, consciousness is to neurons as the solidity of the piston is to the metal molecules. Both consciousness and solidity function causally. But neither is “over and above” the systems of which they are a part.
Mircea Eliade - Wikipedia
Shamanism initiation
According to Eliade, one of the most common shamanistic themes is the shaman's supposed death and resurrection. This occurs in particular during his initiation.[137] Often, the procedure is supposed to be performed by spirits who dismember the shaman and strip the flesh from…
Scrum (software Development) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
User story and epics (scrum)
A feature that is added to the backlog is commonly referred to as a story and has a specific suggested structure. The structure of a story is: "As a I want to so that " This is done so that the development team can identify the user, action and required result in a request and…
Supporting Multiple Paths To Objects In Information Hierarchies: Faceted Classification, Faceted Search, And Symbolic Links
Faceted classification
We call sites like this, where the link labels residing at the same level of depth in the directed acyclic graph (DAG) correspond to a facet (Wynar, 2000) of information categorization, faceted. Facets are ‘clearly defined, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive…