diff --git a/agora pkg chapter.md b/agora pkg chapter.md index d7fdafef3..759224ade 100644 --- a/agora pkg chapter.md +++ b/agora pkg chapter.md @@ -24,16 +24,16 @@ This node is longer than the average [[Agora]] node :) It has the following sect # Abstract -In this [[paper]] we describe an **Agora**, a [[confederated]] [[social knowledge graph]] provisioned and maintained by a self-governing community as a [commons](https://anagora.org/commons). +In this [[paper]] we describe an **Agora**, a [[social knowledge graph]] provisioned and maintained by a self-governing community as a [commons](https://anagora.org/commons). The Agora differs from other projects in the personal knowledge space in a few ways: whereas a **personal knowledge graph** usually contains resources authored or collected by a single person, and a **wiki** usually contains resources produced by a group, an Agora contains and integrates both personal and group resources and actively interlinks them. While links in a personal knowledge graph or wiki usually have a single target, **Agora links fan out by default** and can be thought of as mapping to sets of resources. -**The provided [[free software]] reference Agora tries to remain tool, format and platform agnostic**, building on general conventions common to many tools and platforms in the knowledge space for ease of integration and maximal inclusivity[^inclusivity] and diversity[^diversity]. +**The provided [[free software]] reference Agora tries to remain tool, format and platform agnostic**, building on general conventions common to many tools and platforms in the knowledge space for ease of integration and maximal inclusivity[^inclusivity] and diversity[^diversity]. This Agora is run as a [[confederated]] system for [[public good]]. -An Agora can be defined as a **hypergraph** `A` with a set of **nodes** `N` (entities an Agora knows about) integrated out of **subnodes** `S_0 .. S_k` containing **edges** `E` (known links between entities, optionally annotated by context and through [[agora protocol]]). +An Agora can be defined as a **hypergraph** `A` with a set of `k` **nodes** `N` (entities an Agora knows about) integrated out of **subnodes** `SN_0 .. SN_k` containing **subedges** `SE_0 .. SE_l`, integrated into **edges** `E_0 .. E_k` (known links between entities inferred out of all subnodes) annotated by link context and through [[agora protocol]]). An Agora node contains the set of all known resources about or otherwise relevant to the entity described by the node title or any provided metadata. Each such resource is called a **subnode**. Note that because links can be arbitrarily annotated (i.e. #tagged or qualified by other nearby links) and have multiplicity, the Agora is in fact a **hypergraph**.