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Following Peirce, the general is a continuum and no set of individuals can fully characterize the general, and yet they (generals) are real. We are abstracting an initual Card Model from the Ruby on Rails implementation of the Wiki content platform Decko (ref decko.org). That is to be considered an example of a general that conceptually includes all web content, but more specifically can be a master set of content patterns. Decko and Mediawiki (ref) probably the most popular wiki platform, and also Ward Cunnunham's exploratory work that set the standard for the rest to come. Our goal is a natural language specification of general concepts, wiki, microblog, mediastream, database and so on, that will lead to formal languages and methods.
There are already a million and one proposed universal solutions, and we will not propose another. What we propose is a common language for talking and thinking collective about and with data. We want a truly high level language, natural language. American English for this author, but our language must allow for accurate translations to any language. We note here that languages, natural and formal, are also related continua as are the iconic characters now exhaustively cataloged in international coding standards (ref current internet character standards). By the continuum hypothesis, this international character set is not complete, but it is potentially complete as we can add new characters to evolve it if we need to add sets for the space aliiens we might meet in fact or fiction. In the worlds of ideas, anything we can imagine becomes potential fact of letters typed on a page on an antique typewriter, or these bits flowing into my computer and saved by server code partly written my me.
The Decko Card model I describe here will be close to the current implementation that will save this card when I get finished typing each part or edit of it. This is a familiar pattern now to many, but we must note that it did not exist until Ward invented and named it Wiki. In this sense, our languages, natural and formal are always evolving the intelligence of our worlds. The communities of open source (OS) coders, designers and architects are collaborating to do this everyday. You literally cannot keep up with it. This work is addressed to the now and future generations who will step up to change the world and put us back on track to the open future. We call for the minds of the world to learn to come together in every larger and densely interconnected networks of care and support.
We won't need a financial system anything like the one we have that is literally burning down the house and gardens of the world. If we damage Gaia, we will suffer as we have already inflicted suffering upon many others in the path to economic efficiency and technological supremacy. We will need a new financial system for the transition to fund commons development of all the projects already in motion. Consider this paying back to the first generations of rebels who created the GPL (ref FSF, RMS). The founders paid it forward to us and our duty is to take it to the next levels. This is not an economic paper, and we only note the architectures of support that is needed to evolve our collective vision into realizable future. The tools of the transition financial system are part of the systems that eventually would be designed and built by these methods.
Before continuing on the technical descriptions, we state that all of our design work is human oriented and in support of health and wealth creating (social) process architectures. We can't do the big things or the other things (ref JFK speech about space program) without first caring for ourselves and others. Our world is now very complex and deeply connected and internetworked. We anticipate the emergence of new collective consciousnesses. First in smallish networks and building out. In comparison what we describe here is simple, complicated and simple. We design our systems this way because the world is complex enough as it is. Push to hard for unity and confusion and disharmony result. The world is just so many people building local towers to God's realm (ref Tower of Babel) and it has to stop. Pull together to something good enough, the perfect is the enemy of the good and this is why.
The general class is Wiki, so let us consider what is common to Wikis. The general model is named data objects in collections. The objects can be edited by users often under very open identity policies, but these are not essential. So we have:
Name -> Content Instance within a Namespace
The current State of a Namespace is a Set of (Name, Content) pairs
Name a way to reference the particular content to view and edit
There are already a million and one proposed universal solutions, and we will not propose another. What we propose is a common language for talking and thinking collective about and with data. We want a truly high level language, natural language. American English for this author, but our language must allow for accurate translations to any language. We note here that languages, natural and formal, are also related continua as are the iconic characters now exhaustively cataloged in international coding standards (ref current internet character standards). By the continuum hypothesis, this international character set is not complete, but it is potentially complete as we can add new characters to evolve it if we need to add sets for the space aliiens we might meet in fact or fiction. In the worlds of ideas, anything we can imagine becomes potential fact of letters typed on a page on an antique typewriter, or these bits flowing into my computer and saved by server code partly written my me.
The Decko Card model I describe here will be close to the current implementation that will save this card when I get finished typing each part or edit of it. This is a familiar pattern now to many, but we must note that it did not exist until Ward invented and named it Wiki. In this sense, our languages, natural and formal are always evolving the intelligence of our worlds. The communities of open source (OS) coders, designers and architects are collaborating to do this everyday. You literally cannot keep up with it. This work is addressed to the now and future generations who will step up to change the world and put us back on track to the open future. We call for the minds of the world to learn to come together in every larger and densely interconnected networks of care and support.
We won't need a financial system anything like the one we have that is literally burning down the house and gardens of the world. If we damage Gaia, we will suffer as we have already inflicted suffering upon many others in the path to economic efficiency and technological supremacy. We will need a new financial system for the transition to fund commons development of all the projects already in motion. Consider this paying back to the first generations of rebels who created the GPL (ref FSF, RMS). The founders paid it forward to us and our duty is to take it to the next levels. This is not an economic paper, and we only note the architectures of support that is needed to evolve our collective vision into realizable future. The tools of the transition financial system are part of the systems that eventually would be designed and built by these methods.
Before continuing on the technical descriptions, we state that all of our design work is human oriented and in support of health and wealth creating (social) process architectures. We can't do the big things or the other things (ref JFK speech about space program) without first caring for ourselves and others. Our world is now very complex and deeply connected and internetworked. We anticipate the emergence of new collective consciousnesses. First in smallish networks and building out. In comparison what we describe here is simple, complicated and simple. We design our systems this way because the world is complex enough as it is. Push to hard for unity and confusion and disharmony result. The world is just so many people building local towers to God's realm (ref Tower of Babel) and it has to stop. Pull together to something good enough, the perfect is the enemy of the good and this is why.
The general class is Wiki, so let us consider what is common to Wikis. The general model is named data objects in collections. The objects can be edited by users often under very open identity policies, but these are not essential. So we have:
Name -> Content Instance within a Namespace
The current State of a Namespace is a Set of (Name, Content) pairs
Name a way to reference the particular content to view and edit