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RE: Invitation to metadata dictionary wiki - meaningfuel.org

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Subject: RE: Invitation to metadata dictionary wiki - meaningfuel.org
• From: "ROR" <dev@r...>
• Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:19:45 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

Hi Len, 

There are some very successful technologies out there that are 
essentially powered by the people. PageRank is a great example of that.

-Dom


> Which makes it suitable for picking the contestants on 
> American Idol but probably not for picking tools to 
> use in surgery.
> 
> The problem of the 'wisdom of crowds' is knowing 
> 'crowds of what?' in advance of applying the wisdom.
> 
> It's not simply a matter of merging but also of 
> knowing what levels of abstract to concrete terms 
> a merged term belongs to.
> 
> object -> vehicle -> car
> 
> merge: transportation
> 
> The problem of Darwinian systems is that some 
> competitors agree not to compete and also to 
> eliminate the third party, aka, market fixing.
> That is the chimp way.  You are building a 
> chimp ontology.
> 
> That's fine.  Chimps need them.
> 
> len
> 
> 
> From: ROR [mailto:dev@r...]
> 
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> Good questions! I think the best way to look at the meaningfuel wiki 
> is as some sort of "natural selection metadata". Some terms will 
> vanish after two weeks, other more adequate terms, will live 
forever. 
> Similar terms (i.e. from different ontologies) will compete, and 
here 
> too, only the most adequate ones will survive.
> 
> >From time to time we plan to produce a release of the dictionary, 
> which  will only contain those terms that have reached sufficient 
> stability and maturity.
> 
> 

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