Friday, October 22, 2004
Background discussions on a proposed
Anticipatory Technology Challenge Problem
White Paper on Incident Information Orb Architecture (IIOA) à
Informational Localization and Globalization and
data encoding of constructional ontology
(see also (mappingSocialDiscourse))
The informational localization and globalization construction we talk about is merely an enabling construction, and something that one can use to standardize a next generation “referential base” as an eventual substitution for the current generation of relational databases. This referential base technology has interesting properties in that it is an encoding framework for the machine side of the two-sided semantic web that Tim Berners Lee has talked about.
Ballard and Klausner both have pursued similar encoding mechanisms as part of engineering efforts. Both have a core data encoding process that depends on the regularity of data being passed in a specific social or technology context. On the surface, one can compare the Knowledge Foundations (Ballard) data encoding to an adaptive mechanism for automating the discovery of the invariances in data streams. These invariances are expressed in correspondences with a 2x3x3 framework, in a fashion that is suggestive of the Readware 2x2x8 framework for Arabic. Ballard’s claim is that the 2x3x3 is universal to a minimal encoding mechanism for any type of information. Adi’s (Readware) claim is that the 2x2x8 framework may be universal to any natural language. Sowa’s cognitive graphs 2x2x3 framework can be discussed in this context. Prueitt has developed a generalized theory of frameworks.
Klausner’s work has not found frameworks at the core of data regularity in context. However, the CoreTalk proposal creates a community base for the evolution of structural encoding standards that evolve out of use patterns and conformity to a high level iconic language that captures a higher level of abstraction, must like the concept primitives discussed by Adi. The differences between the data encoding in Adi, Prueitt, Ballard, and Klausner are certainly important. However, the commonality is the direct observation of patterns of regularity in a substructural co-occurrence domain and the construction of a stratified ontology based on these observable regularities.
(This bead is extracted from a section of the paper)