garden/agora paper.md

• a paper.
  • I'm trying to write (as of 2022-07.)
  • As part of the contribution I'm trying to put together for the pkg book.
  • #pull agora pkg chapter agora slides
  • #push todo
    • write, this is a top priority in august 2022.
    • this should probably show up at the top of todo and not at the bottom!

Meta

By default, this paper will be built around the following:

• The Abstract below, taken from a snapshot of the above on 2022-08-05.
• #pull agora pkm chapter with greater technicality?
  • Define m, m prime, morphisms.
    • (An Agora as a category?)
  • Define Agora Protocol operations.
    • print
    • broadcast
    • share
    • assert ~ m
    • intent ~ m prime
    • delegate
      • -> liquid democracy
    • pull (a node, as transcluding, incorporating a pattern.)
    • push (a node), as if meaning publishing to a topic.)
    • go (to a node, or URL.)
    • fork (a commons.)
    • merge (n commons.)
• #pull a pattern language
• #pull a rosetta stone
• #pull i am a strange loop

Abstract

In this paper we describe an Agora, a social knowledge graph provisioned and maintained by a self-governing community as a commons.

The Agora knowledge graph 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_k, aggregating into edges E_0 .. E_k (semantic links between entities inferred out of known subnodes). Edges are annotated implicitly by link context and explicitly via the use of agora protocol, which is extensible and tries to build on existing conventions in the personal knowledge management space.

An 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, integrates and interlinks both personal and group resources. Whereas 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. This is consistent with the general design principle of facilitating storage and retrieval of entity-mapped information towards removing friction from cooperation.

Building on the general principles above and a free software¹ reference implementation of the underlying protocols and data, we model and detail how to implement a distributed system that provisions social knowledge services ethically and sustainably, upholding data sovereignty principles. We then analyze some of the potential applications of such a system. Finally, we shortly explore future work and social implications assuming that the Agora is run as a confederated system for the public good.

Introduction

As per agora pkm chapter by default?

Background

• #pull a pattern language
• #pull a rosetta stone
• #pull the expanding circle

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1. The provided 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 inclusivity² and diversity³ . ↩︎

2. because we require from would-be Agora contributors only that they indicate where to source their notes, and we are committed to supporting all useful formats, we hope to achieve maximal inclusivity. We believe this is important for the health of the commons. ↩︎

3. we believe diverse groups and communities are healthier, smarter, safer, stronger. ↩︎