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Cidoc-crm Version 4.2.4 - Reference Document
Interoperability
Interoperability means the capability of different information systems to communicate some of their contents. In particular, it may mean that two systems can exchange information, and/or multiple systems can be accessed with a single method.
Syntactic interoperability
Syntactic interoperability means that the information encoding of the involved systems and the access protocols are compatible, so that information can be processed as described above without error. However, this does not mean that each system processes the data in a manner…
Complete Beginner's Guide To Information Architecture - Ux Booth | Ux Booth
Flickr tagging and letting users manage information
Flickr allows me to upload my pictures and organize them, tag them, however I see fit. There is no central authority telling me what to tag my pictures. This is partly because itʼs not going to hurt anybody if I do it ʻwrongʼ … Flickr isnʼt a mission-critical system. Itʼs a…
Guidelines For The Construction, Format, And Management Of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies. American National Standards Institute
Knowledge organization system (kos)
The term knowledge organization systems is intended to encompass all types of schemes for organizing information and promoting knowledge management. Knowledge organization systems include classification schemes that organize materials at a general level (such as books on a…
Iannotate — Whatever Happened To The Web As An Annotation System? | The Scholarly Kitchen
Researchers resist public commenting
Access control is perhaps another issue that comes into play for any system. As journal commenting systems have proven, most researchers are hesitant, if not downright hostile, to the idea of publicly commenting on the works of others. Most researchers do discuss works in…
International System Of Units - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Origins of the International System of Units
At the end of Second World War, a number of different systems of measurement were in use throughout the world. Some of these systems were metric system variations, whereas others were based on customary systems of measure. It was recognised that additional steps were needed to…
Lavoisier, Gauss and coherent units
The metric system was developed from 1791 onwards by a group of scientists that was commissioned by the Assemblée nationale and Louis XVI of France to create a unified and rational system of measures.[9] The group, which included Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (the "father of modern…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
What science does
Science can only deal with structure-determined systems, with composite entities, i.e. with systems whose structures determine what will happen. [In proposing a generative mechanism as an explanation for the phenomenon to be explained science always proposes a…
The drift; the system flows in its own dynamic of structural changes
However, DRIFT will only go in the direction that the circumstances will allow. Drift will not go in any imaginable direction. The example here is to consider the path of a boat which has no rudder, oars, engine, or mast etc. being generated as a drift.. Even if we could…
Determinism of the structural drift is not predictability
This structure-determinism does not entail predictability. We are determined but not pre-determined. Determinism means that the structural coherences between systems are satisfied.
Orthogonality:
To be orthogonal means to interact with the client system in such a way as to not become enmeshed in the existing organization of the system as yet one more constituting component. When this occurs you become part of the problem and hence cannot be part of a solution. Acting…
Love as biological stickiness
Maturana used to use the phrase 'biological stickiness' to describe how any two systems, upon encountering one another, stayed or 'stuck' together. They fit together and remain together and continuously interact recurrently with each other. More recently he has used the more…
Consensual behaviour (linguistic behaviour) has not semantics
An observer could describe these interactions in semantic terms, i.e. one could ascribe meanings to the elements in the coordination of behaviour e.g. "the cat is telling his owner that he wants to go out". However Maturana is keen to point out that there is no intrinsic…
For any system there are four initial questions which we may ask:
(1) What type of System is it? How is it defined? (2) What is its Organisation and Structure ? (3) Am I interacting with it as a Simple or Composite unity? If I am in the domain in which the system is a simple unity, I interact with the system through its properties as a…
Structural determinism, main points
(1) Interactions in the medium only trigger structural changes of composite unities. (2) The structure of the system fully determines its interactions by specifying the variety of interactions it can undertake. (3) The structure of the system specifies what it will accept as an…
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…
The Cidoc Conceptual Reference Module: An Ontological Approach To Semantic Interoperability Of Metadata
The CRM's classes as a top-level framework
Only classes were introduced in the CRM that are domains or ranges for the relevant relationships, such that any other ontological refinement of the classes can be done as additional “terminological distinction” without interfering with the system of relationships. Such a…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Cultural periods are controversial
The archeological notion of cultural periods is based on cultural semantics. Chronological systems based on such periods are notoriously controversial, due to the complexity of the relationships between contextual phenomena and spatiotemporal values. Nevertheless, they play a…
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…
Points in time are not observable
Intuitively, many systems regard points in time as a means to recognize events and the temporal end-points of periods, confusing definition with conclusion, and identity with non-unique properties (actually, the absolutely precise point in time when an event happens is not…
Three C’s Of Ontology Engineering
Don't bind internal systems to public ontologies
if the Acme Company data architect models his domain using purely public domain ontologies he is enforcing an early and tightly bound contract of his internal systems (APIs and their underlying SPARQL queries) to them. If he models people and relationships using pure FOAF then…
Waldensians - Wikipedia
A traveling waldensian preacher was known as a barba
Waldo and his followers developed a system whereby they would go from town to town and meet secretly with small groups of Waldensians. There they would confess sins and hold service. A traveling Waldensian preacher was known as a barba. The group would shelter and house the…
What Is Open Data? — Open Data Handbook
Open data is about interoperability
If you’re wondering why it is so important to be clear about what open means and why this definition is used, there’s a simple answer: interoperability. Interoperability denotes the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate). In this case, it…
review: Big Data Book By Nathan Marz – Swaroop, The Dreamer
Scalability
Scalability is the ability of a system to maintain performance under increased load by adding more resources.
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Academic publishing needs a new system
Scientific and academic publishing is a painful process for authors, reviewers and readers alike. No one really benefits from the current system which grew because of the expense of producing, printing and distributing books. The internet and the web technologies have changed…