Fractals of Communication on the Web

Fractals of Communication on the Web

Teodora Petkova discovered a gem on overlapping thoughts and communication.

_The amount of interoperability between interacting
agents (software or human) will depend on how many
communities they have in common and how many ontologies
(groups of consistent and related terms) they share. _

#seofornow   #fractalcommunication  

Originally shared by Teodora Petkova

Fractals, data interoperability and the Semantic Web

Tim Berners-Lee on the fractal nature of the Semantic Web and the technologies that can be used for developing effective and interoperable Web systems.

Given the natural overlapping of human groups, it is important
that Semantic Web technologies support a similar overlapping
in Web systems. These technologies need to enable
the development of a global community of distributed
but interconnected and interoperable information systems.
These technologies should (i) provide global unique identi-
fication so users can uniquely identify terms and resources
from different communities, (ii) allow the free mixing of
terms from different ontologies as several ontologies (local
and global) will be used for develop knowledge or messages,
(iii) support extensibility so individuals can create
new terms or ontologies without waiting for consensus from
a governing body, (iv) allow portions of ontologies/data to be
dropped/ignored without affecting the meaning of the other
concepts, and (v) support mapping between ontologies for
communities that use different ontologies but need to communicate.

A must read for all Semantic Web aficionados :)


[ping Peter Hatherley, Zara Altair]

http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/Papers/AIMagazine/fractal-paper.pdf