Sunday, May 31, 2015

Gray bat: [Wikidata] Data amplitude and representation, "If Q items are not static entities, what is the best way to convey that they are not?", Anthropology actively develops participant observation as methodology in academic spheres in multiple languages, Apply the wiki Wikipedia approach to Wikidata Q items?


[Wikidata] Data amplitude and representation


Hi,

I am investigating some concepts about signal processing and relating them to data manipulation. It is somehow difficult because the way computer scientists relate to concepts is very dogmatic, something is either black or white, however I have not found much on "things that under certain circumstances can be considered black-ish, and under another set of circumstances can be considered white-ish"
http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2012/06/25/shades-of-grey-optical-illusion/

In signal processing there is the concept of amplitude which is just the signal strength. For humans language is like an amplitude communication process where the receiver picks up not only the signal, but also its amplitude depending on context, awareness, previous knowledge, etc. factors which in turn can be considered waves being processed by the ontological biological-organizational complex, the body-mind.

It is tough to describe that a certain concept might have a certain amplitude in some situations and other amplitude in other situations, and perhaps even harder to make a human interface for it.
Has anyone attempted it in the past? If Q items are not static entities, what is the best way to convey that they are not? And is it possible or desirable at all?

Perhaps these questions are more suitable for a Wikidata 2.0, or perhaps it is already doable, who knows.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Micru

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Hi Micru and Wikidatans,

Anthropology actively develops participant observation as methodology in academic spheres in multiple languages, and it also centralizes writing about peoples and field sites and related anthropological questions in a globalizing world these days. I wonder how one best could add fairly open participant observation field note "data fields" as notation to Q items in Wikidata ... as one sensible approach to the questions you're asking, anticipating versions after Wikidata 2 as well.

Apply the wiki Wikipedia approach to Wikidata Q items?

While one could further focus such a wiki / writing / Q item approach in terms of amplitude, and a host of other physics' concepts, coding Wikidata database Q items for writing-openness in specific ways in terms of developing data manipulation has merit.

Scott


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See, too, for example:


Wikidata_databases_and_ecosystems -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wikidata_databases_and_ecosystems


Wikidata_databases_and_ecosystems#World_University_and_School_Links -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wikidata_databases_and_ecosystems#World_University_and_School_Links


Science -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Science


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And some further replies in this email thread:



Hi Micru,

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:56 PM, David Cuenca Tudela <dacuetu@gmail.com> wrote:

It is tough to describe that a certain concept might have a certain amplitude in some situations and other amplitude in other situations, and perhaps even harder to make a human interface for it.
Has anyone attempted it in the past? If Q items are not static entities, what is the best way to convey that they are not? And is it possible or desirable at all?

If you can describe the value of the concept you are referring to with a mathematical function, it is enough if Wikidata contains the fundamental/basic data values that can be used in the function to compute the value of the concept in a certain situation. I don't think Wikidata needs to contain all the possible outputs of that function. For example, if the data about the boiling point of water at sea-level is available in Wikidata, one can use that to compute the boiling point of water at other pressures by using a formula.

Perhaps these questions are more suitable for a Wikidata 2.0, or perhaps it is already doable, who knows.

Please correct me if I'm wrong: it seems to be tne case that these questions are more about the interfaces and technologies built on top of Wikidata, not so much about Wikidata itself (except for the point that the fundamental data should exist in Wikidata).

Best,
Leila
 

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Hi Leila

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Leila Zia <leila@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Please correct me if I'm wrong: it seems to be tne case that these questions are more about the interfaces and technologies built on top of Wikidata, not so much about Wikidata itself (except for the point that the fundamental data should exist in Wikidata).

Yes, in a way it is more about representation that anything else, but it also has to do with the conceptual framework. In the current organization it is assumed that I want to know about an specific Q item, whereas in my thinking about signals I would prefer to have an overview of all items that are related to a keyword.
For instance if I enter Chopin, either I have to select one item from a list or I have to perform a search, there is no middle way of displaying an overview of all items grouped by the kind of relationship that they might have to the keyword chopin. In a way it is a bit like creating a disambiguation page on the fly, with the added difficulty of grouping elements that belong together. For instance if I search Bach, it would make sense to group people with the string "bach" related to the same family together, and divide it by topic, like a sort of disambiguation page for data:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach_%28disambiguation%29
What is difficult is to find an automatic arrangement that works for most situations, or explore a different way of creating data disambiguation pages, perhaps based on current disambiguation items. Is there any way to make this item more useful with some visualization of items it disambiguates?
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107809
Cheers,
Micru



I second Leila, it sounds like what you’re referring to (disambiguation, grouping related items) should be addressed by the backend / search API and exposed by the UI, and not solved by explicitly (as in, manually) representing and storing these relations in wikidata.


Dario


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If I understand you correctly, your are looking for a way to describe different
meanings or facettes of a *word*, building clusters based on what other concept
each of these meanings is related to.

Since Wikidata does not (yet) deal with words at all, we can only defer this
until we do (see the Wikidata/Wiktionary proposal). But others have done this:
have a look at the "Wortschatz" project by the University of Leipzig:
http://corpora2.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/res.php?corpusId=deu_newscrawl_2011&word=Bach

The graph at the bottom shows clusters of collocations for each meaning/facette.
It's a bit hard to find good examples though, usually one meaning is very dominant.

Daniel Kinzler 

Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer

Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.


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Daniel, thanks for your example, it looks very good!

Micru


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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Andean Mountain Cat: NEW Argentina Law School at WUaS, New Argentina World University and School too (not yet in Spanish), Stanford Law talk yesterday - "Constitutional Conversation with Professor Fernando Toller: Are Corporations Persons? A Latin American View"



Dear Professor Toller, 

Thanks for an edifying and far-reaching talk yesterday: "Constitutional Conversation with Professor Fernando Toller: Are Corporations Persons? A Latin American View" - https://www.law.stanford.edu/event/2015/05/27/constitutional-conversation-with-professor-fernando-toller-are-corporations-persons-a-latin-american-view - and very nice to meet you as well. 

You might be interested in this beginning "Argentina Law School at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Argentina_Law_School_at_WUaS - and in conjunction with Argentina World University and School - 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Argentina - planned in Spanish, English, and possibly in other languages in Argentina even as well. As an example of how World University and School works, here too is the "History" wiki subject/school/department at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/History - in English only so far, with some related MIT OpenCourseWare and which courses WUaS would eventually offer toward CC free degrees, in both Spanish and in English. And here is the MIT OCW in Spanish - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/spanish/.

Here too is the beginning Admissions' page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links - for degrees so far only in English, but planned in most countries' languages. 

If it's ok with you, I'll add you to the WUaS monthly email list so we can stay in touch that way as well. 

It was very nice to have heard your talk, met you in passing, and let's possibly meet again at Stanford Law for coffee in the upcoming months (or even from here - https://plus.google.com/u/0/106087475579402829976/posts).  

Best regards, 
Scott







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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010. 











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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Olive ridley sea turtle: Google Glass ahead - Cool, "Google Glass is still misunderstood, says the guy who wore them in the shower" from Robert Scoble, Can't wear these for Harbin ethnographic work (per Harbin), But will look to add these links to the Google wiki subject page for open teaching and learning here and planned in many, many languages, I hope Google Glass will be important in helping to create a far-reaching virtual earth - with historical 3d worlds too


Cool ... Google Glass ahead ... 



https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/TcaqNeYJWXo ... 


Google Glass is still misunderstood, says the guy who wore them in the shower

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-glass-is-still-misunderstood-says-the-guy-who-wore-them-in-the-shower/ ... 

... can't wear these for Harbin ethnographic work (per Harbin) ... 

... but will look to add the links above to the Google wiki subject page 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Google - 
 for open teaching and learning 

... and planned in many, many languages.




I hope Google Glass will be important in helping to create a far-reaching virtual earth - with historical  3d worlds too ...  e.g.

Azure seas: Virtual Earths and Styles? Interactive, Film-realism, Real-real Time for Music-making, 3D, Goggles, Brainwave Headsets for STEM research, Assistive Technologies, - And eventually reliably for Commerce and Environmentalism planning, Google Earth style? Euro-style?, Wiki-style, where archaeologists, for example, add their own research, video et al, and from different decades? ... WUaS-style ... CC data?, What will emerge virtual world-wise in a CC accessible virtual earth for all of 7 billion of us? And in a virtual Harbin for research and creativity?


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/05/azure-seas-virtual-earths-and-styles.html



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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Plum: Harvard University @Harvard "New platforms genetically barcode tens of thousands of cells at a time", The main SUBJECT TEMPLATE at CC WUaS has a BAR CODE option for every wiki page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE … - will every gene at CC WUaS & @wikidata get a QItem # in many languages? Harvard University @Harvard "It's been 100 years since a massive library, which rose after the Titanic sank, joined the Harvard community", Like Oberlin College and Conservatory Quaker-informed WUaS plans online to have both a Music School and College in many lands and languages


The main SUBJECT TEMPLATE at CC WUaS has a BAR CODE option for every wiki page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE … - will every gene at CC WUaS & @wikidata get a QItem # in many, many languages?



The main SUBJECT TEMPLATE at WUaS has a BAR CODE - - every gene a QItem in + langs

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch/status/603265381650731008


Beyond Average
New platforms genetically barcode tens of thousands of cells at a time
By STEPHANIE DUTCHEN
May 21, 2015

http://hms.harvard.edu/news/beyond-average


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To Library Resources at WUaS ? planned in all 8000 languages



100 years of Widener

The massive library rose after the Titanic sank and remains a linchpin of learning and conservation at Harvard


http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/05/100-years-of-widener/


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Like Oberlin College and Conservatory,







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Monday, May 25, 2015

Mariana fruit dove: Would you be interested in teaching a NtF course for credit at online F/friendly-informed World University and School with matriculated undergraduates from around the world in 2016 or 2017 in a Google group video Hangout, for example, and for pay?, giving a presentation about Friendly-informed World University this year at Friends Association on Higher Education (FAHE) in Newberg, Oregon, WUaS on Quaker religious diversity, How students are enjoying their courses, Harvard Classics and Quaker John Woodman's writings



Oz, (and NtF planning Friends),  

Thanks for your update, Oz, - and the readings you shared. I enjoyed how you began in one of them with "K.R. recently wrote about nontheist Friends, “I think we are the path the other guys are looking for.”" May I please add links to the text of both documents you sent to WUaS's Nontheist Friends' wiki subject page?

Would you be interested in teaching a NtF course for credit at online F/friendly-informed World University and School (centered around CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) with matriculated undergraduates from around the world in 2016 or 2017 - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) in a Google group video Hangout, for example, and for pay? 

I'm glad to be giving a presentation about Friendly-informed World University this year at Friends Association on Higher Education (FAHE) in Newberg, Oregon, in a few weeks, on "World University and School and Growing the Religious Society of Friends in many languages and with planned Ph.D.s & professional degrees". I'm attaching the FAHE schedule. (And here are 4 big recent WUaS developments which give me hope that WUaS will be able to matriculate an undergraduate class in 2016 - potentially of 2000 current high schools - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/05/macrovipera-schweizeri-4-biggies-for.html - both Quakers and high school students now from around the world; "Donald" in my blog is David Matchett of SF Friends Meeting, in case any of you know him). In my presentation to FAHE in a few weeks, I'd like to mention the possibility of offering such a NTF Quaker course at WUaS, taught, or designed, by you, Oz, and would love to hear back from you about this before then. WUaS would like to eventually pay MIT/Yale salaries, but this will occur I hope in a few years. 

(I just heard back from Duke University Press that they wouldn't publish my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic manuscript - see their letter + here ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/05/elephas-maximus-maximus-un-development.html - and will probably try Google Publisher next, and partly to begin a All-languages (8000) great universities' academic press - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School).

I've added references to yours, Oz, David Boulton's and Chuck Fager's books here http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) - and here at Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers - but not in the Spanish language NTF Wikipedia entry - https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cu%C3%A1quero_no_te%C3%ADsta .

Thank you. 

Friendly regards, 
Scott

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Hi Scott,

Thanks for your encouraging words and your unceasing efforts to make education available to all. You may refer to my writings any way you like.
As to leading a World University course, it would be on Quaker religious diversity rather Quaker nontheism. However, it would be a huge investment, like writing a book. Right now there isn't time in my days for that, although I hope it happens in some future. 
Go well,
Oz


Friends, 
I suggest we consider expressing our views on Quaker nontheism while in a group working for Friendly diversity, as compared with our current position of working for diversity while in a Quaker group defined by non theism.

Do you see the inconsistency of a group based on particular theological views advocating for a Religious Society of Friends that is not based on a particular theology? We suggest that Quaker membership need not be based on religious beliefs, although membership in our own group is based on religious beliefs. We urge Friends to go beyond theology, while we focus on it.
This has served well in reaching out to people who need our support, but it does not work well in reaching out to Friends who do not agree with us, who are happily in one of the many other streams in the RSoFs. I am not suggesting we keep quiet about our views, but that we give voice to our views as we join with others in working for a Society in which we are all encouraged to express our views.

Oz



Hi Oz and NtFs,
Great, Oz, makes sense, and thanks,
Scott


Hi Oz and NtFs, 

In regard to your designing / teaching a course at WUaS on Quaker religious diversity (rather than Quaker non theism) at Friendly-informed World University and School in the autumn of 2016 or thereabouts, here's "This Course at MIT" about how MIT OCW is thinking through what a course is: 
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-05-introduction-to-probability-and-statistics-spring-2014/this-course-at-mit/. In a recent MIT OCW survey, I responded asking in what ways MIT OCW (and MIT itself) is evaluating how students are enjoying their courses, say, for example, comparing 4 online Intro to Biology MIT OCW/MIT courses. On behalf of WUaS, I'm particularly interested in the enjoyment experience among high achieving high school and college students, Quakers too, and would like to study this inter-lingually and rigorously at WUaS over decades (and centuries even). 

And here are some key aspects from this email thread in my blog post from today: 

I'm including Jon Kershner (https://twitter.com/JonRKershner) in this email, who is a John Woolman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woolman) scholar and teacher, is also giving a presentation at Friends Association for Higher Education (FAHE) in Oregon, who is originally from England and who has a Masters' degree from Princeton. Jon, this is the Nontheist Friends' Planning Group email list; are you receiving by any chance the NtF emails from the main list - http://www.nontheistfriends.org/email-discussion? 

Friendly cheers, 
Scott




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Hi Jon and Os, 

Jon, thanks for your email; makes sense that you're not on the NTF email list since you aren't a non-theist; looking forward to seeing you in Oregon on June 20th. Due to WUaS financial constraints, it looks like I'll only be attending FAHE at George Fox University in Oregon, on Saturday, June 20th, when I'm giving my presentation. But I'm excited to be presenting about this Friendly-informed WUaS possibility of reaching out to Quakers around the world with online CC degrees, including professional degrees (and CC Yale OYC and CC MIT OCW in 7 languages), and online in most countries and their main languages, to complement existing Quaker colleges' degrees - and even Friendly-informed universal education. How do you like living in the state of Washington, after Princeton and Birmingham?

Jon, I'd like to e-introduce you here to Os Cresson, whom I find among the most inspiring, and enjoyable, writers among Quaker thinkers in general these days, and appreciate too his focus - in this NTF Planners' email thread itself to NTFs that I included you in - on the importance of Quaker religious diversity as a focus for NTFs and not non theism among Friends. As an articulate Quaker Nontheist, I think Os has a Masters' of Divinity from Earlham and much experience among Friends and with NTFs especially. Like the spirit of John Woolman's thinking and his writings - with which Os probably also would be an interesting Friendly conversant - Os is a far-reaching articulator also among Friends in the Wider Quaker Fellowship. Os has written "Quaker and Naturalist Too: a new NTF book" (see, too: http://www.nontheistfriends.org/article/author/os-cresson).

Os, Jon teaches about John Woolman, and his Ph.D. analyzed the theology of eighteenth century Quaker minister John Woolman (and was entitled "'The Government of Christ': John Woolman's (1720-1772) Appocalyptic Theology" 2013). Here are Jon's publications - http://bham.academia.edu/JonRKershner/Publications

(What do you both like about the Harvard Classics' editions Vol I in which John Woolman's The Journal of John Woodman - the 1774 and later editions - have been included since 1909 here:

I also recently found these other versions online of Woolman's journals - 
- John Greenleaf Whittier 1879 version- https://archive.org/details/journaljohnwool01whitgoog
- A variety of John Woodman related resources on Google Books 1922+ - https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Journal_and_Essays_of_John_Woolman.html?id=Tfqnp5sdLk8C

Vol 1 of these Harvard Classics also contains William Penn's Fruits of Solitude, interestingly).

Looking forward to further developments in our Quakerly conversations. 

Best wishes, 
Scott


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Hi John, Os, Anita and NTFs, 

So glad you have been conducting these Quaker Theological Diversity interest groups over years now at FGC, John. 

I'm also grateful for Os's focus on the language of "Quaker religious diversity" - and that this might be the focus of an online Friendly-informed WUaS course emerging from this NTF group. As I've shared before in our NTF lists over the years, I have ongoing challenges with words, in the Quaker context, like spirituality, worship, theology, God, divinity, theism, etc., and I'm glad we can all share about our differences about all of this here NTF-wise and in writing, as well as face-to-face in gatherings. 

I'm also grateful over the years in these NTF lists, in general, for our explicit focus on both language and differences in understandings.  

As an NTF-sympathizer, I don't think I'm a "flaming Quaker atheist" (in Monty Python tones:) but thanks to everyone on this list for creating a space for NTF language exploration and idea-sharing - and especially also at Quaker gatherings.

Scott


Hi Os and NTFs,  

With your permission, I've just made your papers you shared in this thread publicly accessible online at the URLs below in WUaS's Google Drive (about which I'm still learning - and from this new email address meeting@worlduniversityandschool.org - and which is in Gmail !:), and will post them soon to the NTF wiki subject / school here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) - at WUaS.

Nontheist Friends Today and Tomorrow (2014)

Notes on What Could be Next for Nontheist Friends in FGC (2014)

To access them publicly from these URLS, NTFriends will need to go through the Google sharing sign-in. 

NTFs, Quaker John Woolman scholar Jon Kershner replied to me personally vis-a-vis this thread and I've introduced Jon and Os to one another off-list ... about which I write also about here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/05/mariana-fruit-dove-would-you-be.html - with some new great John Woodman resources. I've posted this blog entry too to the WUaS NTF wiki subject. 

You'll find links to these 2 papers by Os also in this blog entry above which I've also already shared with you.

Not sure about names in regard to these new developments, but I have an an ongoing interest in NTF Quakerly generation of loving bliss neurophysiology - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) - (which I've shared about before as well) and which would be great to include in future planning. 

Thank you.

Rivers to Oceans of Love, 
Scott







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