Thursday, September 9, 2010

Concept - subject explorer

It seems as though there are a load of ontologies/frameworks already defining most subjects in the world. Here's one example from the Structured Dynamics website. Type in any 'thing'...then click to move to a more broad or narrow connection:

Think of it as a framework or "world view"...that can then have data layered over it:

http://umbel.structureddynamics.com/explorer.php?concept=fibula

There are hundreds of these 'framworks'/ontologies that are available and free...interesting. ie/ Consider one with 6000 nodes that describes a community (warning big):

http://vocab.muni-ontology.org/graph_views/MUNI_spring_3_45_75_500.pdf


While these are all necessary, the details are very distracting. Consider instead, my implementation of a generic 'pod'. This can describe the actions carried out by any subject by adding complexity in layers.

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