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A locale where contribution to over 300 pages demonstrate his ThinkingOutLoud concept together with his emphasis on PositiveDialogue and his encouragements for all to ContributePagesFromYourExpertise.

It well may be that 2010 will be the year when its participants are found to be cooperating in pagemaking and helpful collaborations which will elevate and inform.
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Hi Donald. I just wanted to let you know that I'm interested in your NysWiki and your kind of semantic web building. But I still have to get to understand your SemanticTags, ExtendedWord's and HyperTags and such. It somewhat looks like a PrivateLanguage to me. -- GunnarZarncke

I think the importance of SemanticTags is that they can go beyond PrivateLanguage to enable communication about the meaning of data as well as its content. The important thing is in fact to be open about what things mean. See for example OntologyLanguage. If we do it right we don't have to reinvent it and our data sets can communicate. In these days of course we have to bear in mind data security as well. To give one example my surname is Fletcher, but that is also used as a forename and could be a placename or even the name of a cheese. So I need to tag it Surname to be unambiguous. What I find is that I have collected a lot of data over the years and would like to gather it all into a coherent thing, which it currently is not. I am always on the lookout for new tools to help me with that. --JohnFletcher

1-10-2010 Don, just so that you know, that retard GV made a bunch of changes using your name/cookie. I tried to reverse the changes, and the SharkBot or DaveVoorhis seems to be picking up the pieces. -- Seattle1

Seattle1 -- Thanks, I usually spot these and reverse them, but since Christmas I have been battling an old-fashioned cold and with some over-the-counter medicines and a lot of rest, I am nearly recovered.

John -- The problem with all of the schemes I have been experimenting with thus far requires manual work. I am piecing together ideas about classification and categorization which will automatically attach, numerically evaluate discovered consistancy with individual TargetsOfPersonalInterest. This to reduce the number of targets to ones which fit a contructed FuzzyTemplate. How to do this is (since I am a SoloProgrammer?) involves mental gymnastics in making a selection of an architecture which is simple enough and universal enough for me and other SimpleMinded people to make what I term UsefulUsableUsed.

I've wrestled with the ambiguity issue and see the solution in adding a link to a UniqueLocale or UniqueNameSpace where information is added which allows one to distinguish you from other things which exist as a group with the same name.

While in the process of scanning in several hundred (nearly a thousand) 35mm slides I utilized a siz-digit numbering machine, set to single impression to number the slides as they are scanned in. I reserved to a later operation the creation of the unique namespace, in this case a file with sixdigits as a name where I could name the slide, indicate who is in the picture, the date taken as best recollected, or in some cases printed or written on it. I haven't done the second part yet because I have nearly three times as many slides to scan in first Perhaps something like the following included: I am in the process of scanning in papers, articles, and other things I wish to preserve as a first step. When I feel I am at about a 50 percent mark in the capture process, I will begin creating the structure, code and categorization mechanisms. All of this I feel I will be able to store in my TenTerabyteComputer. Presently I have nearly filled a 1.5 Terabyte UsbDrive?. I like to characterize my efforts as DoingWhileThinking, and by ThinkingOutLoud, in this space and others, included a neglected Website listed above.

Gunnar -- I have been aware of the similarity of interests we share and will probaly include in my storage scheme (which employs a product call Microsoft OneNote, a special Notebook which will include you and others who are in the same waveband if not the same wavelength on topics of mutual interest. The language you term as private is in fact so mainly because it is evolving and only in inital stages of clarification. Through my ThinkingOutLoud I have exposed at least the direction it is heading. Furtner interaction and collaboration might speed the process.

I am pleasantly surprised than in a short space of time, three valued members of this wiki have responded. Let's keep this up. drn.20100111

OneNote is one of the tools I use. I find it rather nonituitive over the construction of the links. I like the fact that it can integrate with other tools e.g. Outlook which I have to use at work. It is good to have this sort of discussion as most of my work on here is more for record than for discussion. I keep meeting things I put on some years ago and had forgotten. --JohnFletcher
Right now my priorities are in the areas of preservation and archiving in a flexible, extensible, and linkable format of things past I consider to be valuable. We can learn much from the past as it comprises most of what we have come to know. I have a notion that we "describe and preserve what we value and what we want to last"
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