How Logseq should build a World Knowledge Graph →

[[Logseq]] has a stated goal to build a [[World Knowledge Graph]]. Here’s what I think they…

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Create a general knowledge ontology that users can create translations into

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there can be multiple “general ontologies”, perhaps for different industries or areas (academic research, corporate documentation, etc)

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for example, a general ontology may be like Joel Chan’s Discourse Graph (types: question, claim, evidence, etc.. relationships: supports, opposes, informs, etc)

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if a user can translate their knowledge graph into this “discourse graph ontology”, then other users can see how to utilize that user’s knowledge graph in the context of a discourse graph ontology

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a user could create this translation / functor by describing how that user’s knowledge graph types and relationships map to the general ontology’s types and relationships

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Translations = functors

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here I am using the term Category Theory term functor to describe a (potentially lossy) translation between two “knowledge graphs”

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