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Part 3:

Future Webs

Initial Consequences

Initial Consequences. 1

We need to go beyond Warburg’s vision of Survival of the the Classics

(Nachleben der Antike) to include the roots of these ideas (Vorleben de

Antike).

Initial Consequences. 2

We need new systems that integrate knowledge at different levels and

different scales of reality.

Initial Consequences. 3

Links to dictionaries in our own language are not enough. We need collaborative efforts on comparative

etymological dictionaries.

Initial Consequences. 4

These links need to go to levels below full words to include the

meanings of individual phonemes.

Initial Consequences. 5

The important links in culture are not just with single words but across different levels of reality.

Initial Consequences. 6

When we enter such levels of complexity, then Who? and What? Questions need to complemented with Where?, When?, How? And

Why?

The WWW is focussing on the logic and truth of born-digital links.

This is important.

Initial Consequences. 7

A Semantic Web of the futureneeds to grow into aWide Worlds Web.

In the past we made comments in the text: Justinianus, Digestum vetus (with the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius).Venice : Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio and Jacobus Britannicus, 15 Dec. 1484. Folio. 349 leaves.427x285 mm. Bound in contemporary blind-stamped brown calf over wooden boards, with two metal clasps and coner and center metals.Prov.: Georg Altdorfer; Monastery of S. Mang, Fuessen.

http://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/TENJI/virtual/incunabla/incu02.html

Footnotes pointed to things outside the text often requiring great effort to find the source in question.

http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/Mandrake/mandrake1.htm

Source

With electronic hotlinks we can go directly back to the source.

http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/Mandrake/mandrake1.htm

http://www.polirom.ro/titluri.cgi?action=titluri&class=details&id=1549

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674993896?v=glance

With electronic hotlinks we can check other editions.

http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/Mandrake/mandrake1.htm

http://www.polirom.ro/titluri.cgi?action=titluri&class=details&id=1549

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674993896?v=glance

With polyfunctional omnilinks we can go to historical editions.

http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/Mandrake/mandrake1.htm

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With polyfunctional omnilinks we can go to historical manuscripts.

http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/Mandrake/mandrake1.htm

http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/g-nature/images/nature02.jpg

Polyfunctional omnilinks can link with other works on Historia Naturalis

http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/Mandrake/mandrake1.htm

http://twinsite2000.tripod.com/timeline/xviib.htm

Desideratum 1

The principle of hotlinks can be extended to omnilinks whereby every word can be a multilayered set of connections.

Desideratum 1

These omnilinks can take us to multiple sources.

They can also take us via existing classing and ordering systems to arrive at multiple sources more systematically.

Desideratum 2

This implies that URLs (URIs and URNs) alone are not enough for a web of trust.

We need links back to the original object –or its official digital version by the owner. So a link to Mona Lisa in the Louvre is distinguished from the many Mona links.

Desideratum 3

Professional cameras already record time and spatial co-ordinates of a picture. This needs to be incorporated into capture technology generally and become part of our web metadata.

The US Military and Microsoft are working on a complete 3D scale model of the physical world.

We are already tagging products and animals with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIS). If these are co-ordinated, then taking a snapshot can link us to knowledge bases about objects.

In the past we used libraries to learn about the world. If we tag the virtual version of the world and link it with both our knowledge bases and the original then cameras which were passive can become active and we can use the physical world as a point of entry into libraries.

Desideratum 4

Cross-Referencing our digital earth with knowledge bases means that our physical earth can effectively become a search engine when we focus a camera or sensor on some detail.

Today search engines search for URLs, (URNs or URIs). Systems such as Google tell us nothing about the level of reality of the findings.

A search for Mona Lisa gives us:

1. Image of Original in Louvre2. Many copies of Image 3. Many versions of Image4. Many texts about Mona Lisa 5. Many objects adapting Mona Lisa.

Metaphysical

Mental

Natural

Man-Made

Social

Who What Where When How Why

It is possible to distinguish five basic levels of reality.

Who What Where When How Why

Religion Philosophy

7 Liberal ArtsDialectic(Logic)Grammar ArithmeticGeometry

MedicineMusic Astronomy

Architecture

Law

Chronicle

History

Rhetoric

Geography

Metaphysical

Mental

Natural

Social

Man-Made

This principle can be applied to traditional disciplines.

Who What Where When How Why

Religion Philosophy

7 Liberal ArtsDialectic(Logic)Grammar ArithmeticGeometry

MedicineMusic Astronomy

Architecture

Law

Chronicle

History

Rhetoric

Geography

Metaphysical

Mental

Natural

Social

Man-Made

The semantic web has focussed thus far on Logic (in Black Box).

Who What Where When How Why

Liberal Arts

MedicineNat. SciencesEnvironment

TourismArchitectureEngineering

Social ScienceEntertainment

ReligionPhilosophyPsychology

Chronicle

History

PoliticsPsychiatry

Geography

Metaphysical

Mental

Natural

Social

Man-Made

The same principle applied to basic disciplines of knowledge.

Appendix 4. The same principle applied to branches of medicine.

Who What Where When How Why

MedicineAnatomyPublic HealthMedical Law Medical Sociology  

Ethics in Medicine PsychiatryPsychology

History of Medicine 

Quality Assurance in Medicine PhysiologyNursing 

Metaphysical

Mental

Natural

Social

Man-Made

The same principle applied to branches of medicine.

Desideratum 5

We can use the ordered knowledge of traditional disciplines to distinguish between different levels of reality of our searches.

We can then search specifically for literary references to Mona Lisa.

Today search engines search with no idea of why we are searching.

If our goal is leisure then a search for Florence should lead to different information than if our goal is research.

Metaphysical

Mental

Natural

Man-Made

Social

Who What Where When How Why

Religion

Education

Everyday Health Environment

BusinessLaw Government

Leisure

The principle of different worlds applied to basic goals of searching.

Desideratum 6

We can also use levels of reality to help distinguish different goals in searching for information and knowledge.

One of the seminal problems of searching is that we do not have the technical vocabulary (authority files) to find it in various systems.

We can use the specialized vocabularies of classification systems and thesauri to provide users with the vocabulary to find what they want.

In short, even before we do searching we give users the words they require to search with proper terms.

This applies equally to the categories we need to begin a search.

Hence, if our goal is education and our subject is religion, the system gives a series of prompts.

Appendix 4. The same principle applied to branches of medicine.

Who What Where When How Why

Religion

Metaphysical

Mental

Natural

Social

Man-Made

Popes CardinalsArchbishopsBishopsPriestsNunsMonks Lay BrothersSaints

CathedralBasilicaChurchMonastery

SacramentsFestivalsFeastsNovenasVigils

The same principle applied to branches of religion.

Desideratum 7

The specialized vocabularies of classification systems and thesauri can provide users with controlled vocabulary to find what they want.

Today there is a great emphasis on ontologies as new systems to replace existing ones. This is valuable.

Desideratum 8

We also need to use multilingual, historical classifications, and thesauri to give us access methods into the knowledge systems of other places and times.

Thus far the web has focussed on verbal searches.

Exceptions have been experiments such as QBIC, Excalibur.

Here alphabets and historical versions can provide us with technical concepts for searching.

Here product catalogues, visual dictionaries and historical versions can be extremely valuable in providing us with technical vocabularies for searching.

Desideratum 9

We can extend the concept of omnilinks to include visual images from alphabets and visual dictionaries and use these as an aid to navigation.

There are great potentials in further distinguishing scales of reality and using images as orientation tools.

Cosmic Scale: Map of Heavens as an entry point.

Cosmic Scale: World trees as entry points into different cultural systems

Cosmic Scale As entry points into different cultural systems

Tree Scale as entry points into different cultural systems

Human Scale applied to Buildings as entry into architectural schools.

Human Scale applied to Chakras as entry into 3 chakra schools.

Human Scale applied to Chakras as entry into details of cakra school.

Desideratum 10

We can extend the concept of omnilinks to visual images at different scales and use these as further aids to navigation.

Desideratum 11

We can use ordered knowledge of the past as a tool in searching for past and present knowledge. We need to integrate the notion of Virtual Reference Rooms as a central element of our quest for a semantic web.

Logic

tests the truth of something for which a universally true statement is assumed

e.g. scientific laws, business transactions

Here 1-1 links in a closed WWW web are enough.

Culture is a web of many to many links of :

worlds knowledges stories beliefs interpretations meanings traditions

Future Webs need to expand beyond closedclouds of URLS to link with open worlds beyond.

Here a logical system that expects one answer to be true to the exclusion of others in terms of 1-1 misses the point.

Here variant namesvariant versions of stories are fundamental keys to understanding the richness of human expressions.

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Semantic webs cannot know the truth of a belief, myth or story.

Semantic web can and must establish true links back to the sources beyond the digital web so that individuals and scholars can make their own decisions about level of truth, meaning, correctness of interpretation.

Desideratum 12

We need to integrate different versions, different ways of knowing, different knowledge systems, different “knowledges” into our quest for a semantic web.

Desiderata

1. Omnilinks for Multilayered Searching 2. Omnilinks extended to Physical World 3. Spatio-Temporal Image Capture and Metadata4. Link Digital Physical World with Knowledge 5. Levels of Reality as Search Criterion 6. Goals as a Tool for Search Criteria 7. Thesauri to Augment Personal Terms 8. Historical Classifications and Thesauri 9. Images and Visual Dictionaries as Search Tools

10. Scale as Search Method 11. Virtual Reference Rooms 12. Ways of Knowing and Knowledges.

When DAKSA was creating the world he chopped an angle off the Himalayas to make them literally the roof of the world.

K S

A D N

E S

A D N

When DAKSA was creating the ANDES he only had to change one letter, the K linked with Cutting to the E of ENA, Energy as one finds in South America and Brazil.

We need new webs to study these mountains of knowledge and to understand how the Silk and other routes weave their way among them.

In English when the E turns to Xi and joins the T we have= EXIT.

E

A D

I

Portuguese is subtler when the SA of heaven pulls IDA towards the heavenly mountain, we have SAIDA.

S

They look different but the message is the same: Time’s up.

A D

I

S

I am honoured and happy to be in Bra-.

I am honoured and happy to be in Brasilia. Thank you.

ArigatoArigato

Dank U

Thank you

Danke schön

Gratias vobis/tibi/ agimus

Merci bien

Mille Grazie

ObrigadoShukran

Spasebo

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