diff --git a/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md b/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md index 923c613c6..049015ea5 100644 --- a/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md +++ b/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ - 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. - - In an Agora, links [[fan out]] by default, meaning that links to - 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]]. - Individual agoras are expected to federate and organize into greater Agora networks, which are in themselves graph-like at a higher level. - On a system level, there exists a [[reference Agora]] that provides a minimum viable implementation for the [[underlay]], [[interlay]], [[overlay]] components of the [[distributed knowledge graph]]. @@ -18,5 +17,4 @@ - Social [[composition]] and [[integration]] of notes might be sufficient to yield higher level meaning and 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 at scale. - - \ No newline at end of file + - 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