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How Books Will Become Machines
Regulated representations become machines
Our core hypothesis is that regulated representations get more regular over time. The general process of this regulating tendency is the transformation of a convention into a mechanism. The regulation usually proceeds in two consecutive steps, firstly mechanizing the…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Paradigms as maps
For our purposes, a simple way to understand paradigms is to see them as maps. We all know that “the map is not the territory.” A map is simply an explanation of certain aspects of the territory. That’s exactly what a paradigm is. It is a theory, an explanation, or model of…
The wrong map of Chicago
Suppose you wanted to arrive at a specific location in central Chicago. A street map of the city would be a great help to you in reaching your destination. But suppose you were given the wrong map. Through a printing error, the map labeled “Chicago” was actually a map of…
Maps of realities and maps of values
Each of us has many, many maps in our head, which can be divided into two main categories: maps of the way things are, or realities, and maps of the way things should be, or values. We interpret everything we experience through these mental maps.
Principles are like lighthouses
Principles are like lighthouses. They are natural laws that cannot be broken. As Cecil B. deMille observed of the principles contained in his monumental movie, The Ten Commandments, “It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.” While…
Principles are not values
Principles are not values. A gang of thieves can share values, but they are in violation of the fundamental principles we’re talking about. Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct…
Aligning our maps with principles
The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be. Correct maps will infinitely impact our personal and interpersonal effectiveness far more than any…
The Iron Curtain Diaries - 1989 2009
An interactive map of the Iron Curtain
An interactive map of the more than 4,000-mile-long Iron Curtain, illustrating the changes since the Berlin Wall came down.
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Topic maps as the GPS of information
Topic maps provide an approach that marries the best of several worlds, including those of traditional indexing, library science and knowledge representation, with advanced techniques of linking and addressing. It is our firm conviction that they will become as indispensable…
Portable topic maps as a business opportunity
The generality and expressive power of the topic map model bring with it other advantages that go far beyond those traditionally associated with indexes. The close similarity to semantic nets gives an idea of how topic maps, even without any occurrences connecting them to an…
Topics and occurrences as two layers
An important point to note here is the separation into two layers of the topics and their occurrences. This separation is one of the clues to the power of topic maps and we shall return to it later. Occurrences, as we have already seen, may be of any number of different types…
Topic maps as an ISO standard
Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed “the GPS of the information universe”, topic maps are also destined to provide…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Chronological reasoning in archaeology
Systems for chronological reasoning in archaeology typically concentrate on statistical approaches to date archeological strata. These approaches normally regard the studied phenomena as simple, well- defined and associated with precise points in time. The Perseus Digital…