diff --git a/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md b/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md index ec2d6d4a6..5ef922116 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 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. + - 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). - Agora [[nodes]] are defined by the set of known resources *about* the entity described by their title or other metadata. - - Put another way, an [[agora node]] is a community maintained [[collection]] of voice-preserving individual contributions by default. + - A [[node]] is a community maintained [[collection]] of voice-preserving individual contributions by default. - Note that Agora nodes in turn to graphs defined in a local context around the [[subnodes]] represented by known resources. - 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.