Our databases – our ontologies and knowledge repositories – are nothing but a collection of perspectives on the world – a collection of information organized according to agendas. A vulnerable civilization requires that we record and structure ideas from the perspective of the individual, the economy, politics, science, the social, the cultural, etc.. And it is important that these documentations be organized in a way that can be computed. If our information is machine readable, then we are free to put it through processes and analyses that are too difficult or complex for a human agent to accomplish in a lifetime. Our project’s development is based on such documentary and archival practices, and as we make our collection dynamic and organizable, we are advancing the utility of knowledge infrastructures and intellectual technologies in helping distribute socially responsible ideas in the world.
Likewiseverifyingsentenceslike“catshavefur”isalsoclearlyasemantictask. In
contrast, verifyingthat twocats depictedincolor areinfact thesameincolor is not asemantictask, as
thejudgment canbemadebasedonthecolor informationinthepictureandwithout referencetosemantic
informationabout theobjects.
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