diff --git a/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md b/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md index c9f89607b..4ec798bb4 100644 --- a/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md +++ b/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ - An Agora is a [[distributed knowledge graph]] provisioned and maintained by a community as a [[commons]]. - Whereas a [[personal knowledge graph]] usually contains resources authored or collected by a single person, and a wiki usually contains resources produced by a community, an Agora is a [[social knowledge graph]] based on the [[integration]] of both personal and group resources in a social [[context]]. - Whereas a [[personal knowledge graph]] is usually maintained using a single [[personal knowledge management]] tool and stored in a single format, an Agora tends to be tool agnostic and support many formats as input. - - Being a graph, an Agora can be defined as a set of vertexes or [[nodes]] `N` (entities) and [[edges]] `E` (known links between entities, optionally annotated). + - Being a [[graph]], an Agora can be defined as a set of vertexes or [[nodes]] `N` (entities) and [[edges]] `E` (known links between entities, optionally annotated). - Agora [[nodes]] are defined by the set of known resources *about* the entity described by their title or other metadata. - A [[node]] is a community maintained [[collection]] of voice-preserving individual [[subnodes]] defined by the resources contributed by a single user or group. - Because links between two nodes in an Agora can be [[annotated]] (i.e. #tagged or qualified by other nearby links) and have multiplicity, the Agora is in fact a [[hypergraph]]. @@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ - Social composition and integration might be sufficient to yield meaning and sufficient order, or at least significantly complement both taxonomic approaches (hierarchical) and individual-scoped eventual convergence (non hierarchical). - A composition of personal [[hierarchies]] yields a social [[heterarchy]]. - The social context afforded by an Agora provides a path towards faster eventual convergence (that is, `K` people contributing to `N` nodes as categorized using loose or implicit personal ontologies can converge on useful emergent categories as `K` increases). - - Going from a set of voice-preserving [[individual contributions]] to a shared [[group resource]] might be an efficient way to foster opportunistic collaboration. + - Going from a set of voice-preserving [[individual contributions]] to a shared [[group resource]] might be an efficient way to foster opportunistic collaboration at scale. - \ No newline at end of file