Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Fwd: Re: [PORT-L] Digital Imagination
KnownSpace is anything but dead. It's very much alive, though you are
forced to use CVS for the time being. That CVS has a branch that includes
my code, in which I rewrote the program to use MySQL. My current version
of it also uses jxtaSpaces, a Linda-like open source version of JavaSpaces.
That version isn't running yet. (01)
You can join the knownspace forum at e-groups (you must join in order to
view the archives). (02)
Visit Gregory Rawlins' home page http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~rawlins/ for
more, and a link to KnownSpace Symphony -- the latest rendition of KnownSpace. (03)
Jack (04)
At 05:13 PM 3/21/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Jack Park wrote:
>
>>Context for forwarding this long post:
>>I believe the following discussion relates closely to the evolving
>>discussion on graph structures. Jon Awbrey, in his usual, extremely
>>articulate way, seems (to me) to be saying that ontologies, in an of
>>themselves, are problematic. But, we are still forced with the issue of
>>archiving (representing) the universe for purposes of research,
>>inference, and so forth.
>>An approach to representation being taken by the KnownSpace project
>>(http://knownspace.sourceforge.net) is one that appears to be agnostic:
>>simple entities, their names, values, and attributes. Perhaps the graph
>>structures we create should remain agnostic as well, and leave the
>>'interpretation' to the agents that use those structures. I still have
>>problems with that idea, and I am presently probing the limits of the
>>simple entity-attribute scheme with the KnownSpace group at this time;
>>possibly, my problems stem from growing up a consummate reductionist.
>>Jack
>
>
>I checked out the KnownSpace web pages and couldn't find any
>evidence that there's been any activity (the "Latest Updates")
>since 1999. They've also not released any files on SourceForge,
>so it seems the project is dead. Looks interesting though, and
>very similar to some degree with my work.
>
>Kinda eerie, as the name of their interface is "Cerulean", whereas
>my project name is "Ceryle" (named after the Belted Kingfisher's
>latin name, ceryle alcyon, a small bird that dives deep.).
>
>Murray
>
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>Murray Altheim <mailto:m.altheim @ open.ac.uk>
>Knowledge Media Institute
>The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK
>
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