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A suggested requirement for a living knowledge commons wiki
Semantic links
Every link should have a relationship / predicate.
Why is this desirable?
Fundamental to the Semantic Web. Personally, I feel sure it would make a huge difference to findability. (Though this is not yet generally accepted within the fedwiki community) In practical terms, this means supporting people looking for specific relationships between pages, including support or critique, for example. I’m thinking of the little known work of Andrew Ravenscroft and the dialogue game he called “InterLoc”, where all replies had to start with a framing.
How it could work, and issues
The types of links would need to be very carefully selected, with maybe SKOS as a basis? But also needed to be included are logical and conversational relationships. In scientific terms, for example, we would want ‘gives evidence for’ and ‘is a counterexample’.
To enable there to be effectively no categories while allowing sub-categories, one of these semantic links would need to be something like “is_sub-category_of”.
Evaluation, or existing implementations
Implemented in several places, e.g. Semantic MediaWiki; … but it is not clear to me how well that fits the requirement.