diff --git a/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md b/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md index 93006241d..60bd4ae85 100644 --- a/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md +++ b/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md @@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ - #push [[agora abstracts]] - #pull [[social knowledge graph]] [[distributed knowledge graph]] - An Agora is a [[distributed knowledge graph]] provisioned and maintained by a community as a [[commons]]. - - Whereas a [[personal knowledge graph]] usually contain 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 into [[nodes]] which work by default as [[collections]]. + - Whereas a [[personal knowledge graph]] usually contain 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. - Being a graph, an Agora can be defined as a set of vertexes or [[nodes]] `V` (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. - Put another way, an [[agora node]] is a community maintained [[collection]] of voice-preserving individual contributions by default. - Note that Agora nodes generalize in turn to graphs defined in a local context around the [[subnodes]] represented by known resources. - - Note that because links can be annotated in an Agora, the Agora is in itself a [[hypergraph]]. + - Note that because links in an Agora can be annotated (e.g. tagged or qualified by other nearby links), the Agora is in fact a [[hypergraph]]. - Finally, individual agoras are expected to federate and organize into Agora networks, which are of course in themselves graph-like at a higher level. - \ No newline at end of file