It is about time we write down these experiments and thoughts, and research others work to see how they compare. This page is a start.
# An Ecosystem of Tagged Content
First we need to start with actual content, and the practice of Writing. In the Federation we have built up a large number of wiki pages that are effectively tagged. This tagging may need improving but that is good because it provides a motive.
We imagine each wiki as having its own Folksonomy cloud, organised increasingly into graphical forms or micro-knowledge graphs. The wiki's then form relationships with other wiki's with their own tag ontology. Our question asks: > __Question:__ how do such tag ontologies evolve?
# Ontology Visualisation
We view the act of graphing an ontology (semantically ordered collection of tags) as an important part of the authoring process. We draw, refactor, and rewrite, to produce new drawings.
In addition the visual modality leverages a different part of our brains and includes additional motivations and types of participant.
# Evolving Folksonomies
We are more interested in the evolution of the ontology than we are the utility or accuracy of the ontology. This of course means that we need to be able to measure these qualities in order to enable the fitness functions that drive the evolutionary process - so we do care about quality, but not as a snapshot. Rather we care about the time series.
# Does It Get Better?
Our main concern with the tag ontologies we work with is to ask how they thrive? Does the quality improve? Are they Life-Like?
# Mathematics
We seek to develop and utilise novel mathematics and computation that enables us to work with increasingly large networks of tag ontologies. Size is not the main question. Ensuring that the meta-ontological grammar is powerful, and that it can be embodied in the study and facilitation of the evolutionary process is paramount. For this we need to address the question of motivation.
# Motivation Motivation is not simply a pragmatic consideration, but a mathematically embodies aspect of the ontological framework. That is we seek to create a performative ontology. This is congruent with our previous work with knowledge graphs and blockchain for science, as well as the original research at the Multimedia Authoring Centre on collaborative medical texts.