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2210 -    ..
2211 - Summary/Objective
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221201 - Follow up
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221203 - Jack Park who is contributing on the Colloquium at Stanford
221204 - submitted a letter that recommended people review a web site for
221205 - correlation with DKR objectives.
221207 -  ..
221208 - This relates to work on 990524 on the need for common baseline
221209 - knowledge structures, from discussion with Morris and difficulty he is
221210 - having using SDS on the web. ref SDS 1 7455
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221213 -  ..
221214 - The website is...
221215 -
221216 -
221217 -                  http://www.nupedia.com
221218 -
221220 -  ..
221221 - There web site says...
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221223 -      Suppose scholars the world over learned of a serious online
221224 -      encyclopedia effort in which the results were not proprietary to
221225 -      the encyclopedists, but were freely distributable under an open
221226 -      content license in virtually any desired medium.  How quickly
221227 -      would the encyclopedia grow?
221229 -       ..
221230 -      We at Nupedia want to find out. We have the time, money,
221231 -      personnel, and commitment.
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221234 -  ..
221235 - Sent ref DIT 1 0001 to the Editor-in-Chief, Larry Sanger, explaining
221236 - Nupedia's concept compliments POIMS technology that empowers people to
221237 - apply KM principles of an encyclopedia to organize their daily work in
221238 - meetings, calls and documentation. ref OF 1 0001
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221240 -      [On 000314 received letter from Larry. ref SDS 3 0001
221242 -  ..
221243 - Explain having an organic subject structure method. ref OF 1 1110
221244 - Nupedia may be able to supply over-arching theory for applying this
221245 - capability. ref DIT 1 1888
221247 -  ..
221248 - Describe subject indexing as sophisticated keyword system. ref DIT 1
221249 - 8268
221251 -  ..
221252 - Propose idea of....
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221254 -    Nupedia organizing the world of knowledge, and SDS organizes how
221255 -    that world structure integrates with individuals and organizations.
221256 -    ref DIT 1 3496
221258 -  ..
221259 - A predicate to developing an integrated knowledge structure using
221260 - Nupedia expertise and SDS capabilities, is...
221261 -
221262 -          [On 000331 cited this record on need for attention to
221263 -          epistemology. ref SDS 4 9797
221264 -
221265 -          [On 000623 Jack Park recognizes need for subjects to evolve
221266 -          within meaning of dynamic knowledge. ref SDS 6 4752
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221268 -    1.  Developing a definition of "knowledge" and "intelligence"
221269 -        within a framework of creating knowledge tools for people to
221270 -        use day-to-day.
221272 -         ..
221273 -    2.  Epistemology is assumed to develop definitions of
221274 -        knowledge and intelligence.
221276 -         ..
221277 -    3.  Epistemology is explained in American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd
221278 -        Edition on page 619...
221279 -
221280 -           The branch of philosophy that studies the nature of
221281 -           knowledge, its presuppositions and foundations, and its
221282 -           extent and validity.
221284 -              ..
221285 -             [On 000515 epistemology is part of Charles Peirce's
221286 -             semiotic theory of philosophy that investigates the
221287 -             meaning of the world -- relations to the world through
221288 -             representations of its existential relations. ref SDS 5
221289 -             2613
221291 -         ..
221292 -        On 000221 "ontology" is broader than "epistemology" and
221293 -        "taxonomy" but these all seem to be related. ref SDS 2 2622
221294 -
221295 -             [On 000515 ontology is part of Peirce's philosophy for a
221296 -             semotic theory of knowledge that examins the structure of
221297 -             the world (elements and relations of existence.
221298 -             ref SDS 5 0784
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221301 - Since Larry is credited with training in Epistemology, request that he
221302 - review definitions of knowledge and intelligence in POIMS and advise
221303 - if this sounds like a direction Nupedia can support. It is pretty
221304 - delicate, because there is a lot debate about these matters.
221305 - ref DIT 1 0544
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221308 -  ..
221309 - Nupedia's initial, rough proposal for the breakdown of top-level
221310 - categories will be fine-tuned by Nupedia's to supply the details
221311 - within subcategories...
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221313 -
221314 -         FOUNDATIONAL DISCIPLINES
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221316 -            PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC
221317 -            MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
221319 -          ..
221320 -         NATURAL SCIENCES
221321 -
221322 -            PHYSICS
221323 -            CHEMISTRY
221324 -            BIOLOGY
221325 -
221326 -              BOTANY
221327 -              ZOOLOGY
221329 -             ..
221330 -            ASTRONOMY
221331 -            EARTH SCIENCES
221333 -          ..
221334 -         SOCIAL SCIENCES
221335 -
221336 -            PSYCHOLOGY
221337 -            LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGES
221338 -            ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHEOLOGY
221339 -            SOCIOLOGY
221340 -            POLITICAL SCIENCE
221341 -            GEOGRAPHY
221342 -            ECONOMICS
221343 -            HISTORY
221345 -               ..
221346 -              AMERICAN HISTORY
221347 -              EUROPEAN HISTORY
221349 -          ..
221350 -         PRACTICAL ARTS
221351 -
221352 -            MEDICINE
221353 -            THE LAW
221354 -            EDUCATION
221355 -            COMPUTERS
221356 -            ENGINEERING
221357 -            BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
221358 -            AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
221359 -            PUBLISHING AND WRITING
221360 -            HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT
221362 -          ..
221363 -         CULTURE
221364 -
221365 -            LITERATURE
221366 -
221367 -              AMERICAN LITERATURE
221368 -              BRITISH LITERATURE
221369 -              EUROPEAN LITERATURE
221371 -             ..
221372 -            VISUAL ARTS AND DESIGN
221373 -
221374 -              PAINTING
221375 -              SCULPTURE
221376 -              ARCHITECTURE
221378 -             ..
221379 -            PERFORMING ARTS
221380 -
221381 -              THEATER AND DRAMA
221382 -              DANCE
221383 -              MUSIC
221384 -              FILM AND TELEVISION
221386 -             ..
221387 -            CLASSICS
221388 -            RELIGION
221389 -
221390 -              CHRISTIANITY
221392 -             ..
221393 -            PARAPSYCHOLOGY, UFOS, ETC.
221394 -            LEISURE
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221397 -  ..
221398 - Many categories overlap to some degree, and a few categories overlap
221399 - considerably.  This is particularly the case with classics, which of
221400 - course overlaps with history, philosophy, and poetry.  Nonetheless,
221401 - for purposes of this category scheme, there is no reason why we should
221402 - not put the same articles into multiple categories, rather than deny
221403 - the importance or usefulness of well-accepted categories of
221404 - scholarship such as, indeed, classics (not to mention other
221405 - interdisciplinary categories to be added as appropriate).
221407 -  ..
221408 - Certain catagories have been prised out, e.g., zoology and botany, as
221409 - subcategories of top-level categories (e.g., biology). The reason is
221410 - that, in any standard desk encyclopedia, biology, geography, and arts
221411 - and literature make up the bulk of entries.  Of course, Nupedia aims
221412 - to be much larger than a standard desk encyclopedia, but we want to
221413 - begin by building up the contents that one would expect from a
221414 - standard desk encyclopedia.
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221417 - For categories with established subcategories, any content that cannot
221418 - be placed within a subcategory will be placed in the top-level
221419 - category; e.g., for now, Latin American literature will be placed in
221420 - the "literature" category.
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