Peace through knowledge gardens, topic maps and category theory
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Peace through Peaceful Interactions, Knowledge
Gardens, Topic Maps, and Category Theory
Jack Park [email protected]
Stanford⟺Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley Peace Innovation Workshop,
9 April, 2012
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Peirce: Categories Writ Large
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categories_%28Peirce%29
Firstness Possibilities
Secondness Reactions
Thirdness UX: Habits
Diagram co-created with Mary Keeler and Howard Liu
Peace: Categories Writ Large
Peace Data MAPI
Topic-centric Trust Building
UX: Peace
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dckf69cs_28c3k2t4f8
Peace Mapping Israel Palestine
Republicans Democrats
Peace
Peaceful Interaction
Shared Topic*
For category diagrams drawn this way, see, e.g. Lawvere, F.William & Stephen H. Schanuel (1997). Conceptual Mathematics: A first introduction to categories. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
*Shared topics relate to Issue-based Information Systems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue-Based_Information_System
Category Theory and Topic Maps
• Goal – A global Knowledge Garden engaged in trust building for peace
• Trust built on shared topics of interest – “Let’s discover or co-create topics on which we agree, and build on that…”
• Features – Topic maps federate topics shared during peace interactions
• Represents links (trails) to other individuals with similar interests – Facilitates trust growth
– Category theory facilitates exploration of the topological space entailed by peace interactions* • Multiple ways to discover, study, and enhance relations among participants
• Conjecture – Topic maps can play roles in category theoretic knowledge
representation
*Some ideas: http://sites.google.com/site/howdowestop/topology-in-this-work
Inspiration: Robert Rosen
Environment
Metabolism
Repair Replication
Figure 10C.6. Rosen, Robert(1991). Life Itself: A Comprehensive inquiry into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life. New York: Columbia University Press. Page- 251
A canonical organism expressed in category-theoretic representation
What is a Knowledge Garden?
Federated Information Resources
(Topics)
Condo (Topic
Garden)
Condo (Topic
Garden)
Condo (Topic
Garden)
Collections of participants at topic-centric portals (condos) with all information resources federated
A Knowledge Garden federates Social with Technical and Political
What’s In a Condo
• A Social Contract – Sensemaking
– Discovery
– Learning
– Peace Interactions
• User Experience – Epistemic games
– Structured conversations
– Social gardening • Tagging
• Annotating
• Connecting
Federation
Conversation Tools
Topic Map
Research Tools
Other
Games
Closing Thought: Topic Maps
• A Topic Map is like a library* – A Topic Map is indexical
• Like a card catalog – Each topic has its own representation
• Improving on a card catalog, a topic can be identified many different ways
– A Topic Map is relational • Like a good road map
– Topics are connected by associations – Topics point to their occurrences in the territory
– A Topic Map is organized • Multiple records on the same topic are co-located in the
map
*A library without all the books: a map is not its territory
Completed Representation
antioxidants kill
free radicals
Contraindicates
macrophages use free radicals to
kill bacteria
Bacterial Infection Antioxidants
Because
Appropriate For
Compromised Host
Let’s Co-create a Garden and Federate Peace Interactions