The First and Future Webs

1. Kim H Veltman The First and Future Webs 1 International Workshop on Information Science Brasilia 5 December 2006

2. Man would no longer need documentation if he were assimilated into an omniscient being - as with God himself. But to a less ultimate degree, a technology will be created acting at a distance and combining radio, X-rays, cinema and microscopic photography. Everything in the universe, and everything of man, would be registered at a distance as it was produced. In this way a moving image of the world will be established, a true mirror of his memory. From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way, everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate creation, as a whole or in certain of its parts. Paul Otlet, Monde: essaie d'universalisme -- connaissance du monde; sentiment du monde; action organisée et plan du monde Brussels, Editions du Mundaneum, 1935 http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs/otlethyp.php

3. Paul Otlet, La machine a penser le monde, 1943

4. Parts Minutes 1. Present 10 2. Past 50 3. Future 30

5. Part 1Present Web

6. In 1964, Paul Baran studied 3 kinds of networks and suggested a distributed network as the best option. http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/baran_nets_large.gif

7. In 1992 Donna Cox and Robert Patterson (NCSA) visualized the Internet as a Web http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/cox_1678_large.jpg

8. Since then there have been many web like visualizations: e.g. J.A Brown et al.(2000). http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/topology.html

9. 1968 2 • 1990 1 million • 50 million • 200 million • 1000 million • Today 1086 million • Fixed Internet Growth

10. 131 GFlops • 2000 2379 GFlops • 2006 280600 GFlops • 2008 1,600,000 GFlops • Top 500 Computers

12. Very Different Solutions are Being Explored.

13. 1gramme of dried DNA can hold as much information as 1 trillion CDs. DNA takes shape, BBC News ,12 January 2000

14. In 1995 the Internet was 95% English. In 2004 it was 36.2 % English. Global Internet Statistics September 2004. http://www.glreach.com/globstats/ http://www.netvalley.com/languages_2001.gif

15. In September 2006, the Internet was 28% English. http://www.glreach.com/globstats/ http://www.netvalley.com/languages_2001.gif

16. There are visions of complete usage: e.g. European Schoolnet Vision http://www.elearningresults.com/ppt/stream%20H/H9%20CELEBRATE%20Simon_Assche_Pucci/20040514Sestri.ppt#341,13,Complete usage scenario

17. Wikipedia is Growing Enormously and is now the largest Encyclopedia in history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia

18. New Plans 6 October 2006 Citizendium or Citizen's Compendium guided by expert editors, and contributors will be expected to use their own names, not anonymous pseudonyms. http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;433347648;fp;2;fpid;1

19. Full Text Scanning is Exploding in Size: Dates Volumes Project 1949-1974 52 Index Thomisticus Father Busa 1972 -2001 12,000 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae 1971- 16,000Project Gutenberg Michael Hart 1990s- 125,000+ Pollard Chadwyck >Proquest 2000 1.5 million Dissertations Proquest 2001 1 million Books, Raj Reddy, CMU 2004 15 million Books, Google 2005-10 6 million Books, European Commission via BNF http://www.gutenberg.org/about/

20. Internet as Ethernet and Internet as a Cloud: sturtevant.com/reed/pres1.htm

21. Internet as Ethernet and Internet as a Cloud: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/nhsitrc/resource/technology_prototype.html

22. The Semantic Web is focussing on these addresses (URLS, URNS) to establish security. As a result the WWW acts as if the web of connections were effectively an Ether- net independent of objects in the physical world and different layers of reality. http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;433347648;fp;2;fpid;1

23. Meanwhile the Internet has spread beyond this cloud to include: Space Astronomy Earth Geography (GIS, GPS, UMTS) Oceans Oceanography http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;433347648;fp;2;fpid;1

24. Hubble Telescope Images heritage.stsci.edu/2005/12b/supplemental.html

25. Microsoft Virtual Earth http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050523-125208

26. VENUS (Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea) project http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050523-125208

27. Three Worlds: Virtual Heavens, Earth and Oceans and a WWW http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050523-125208

28. This is part of a larger trend to Map and Scan different worlds : 1. Metaphysical Philosophy, Religion 2. Mental Literature, Mathematics 3. Physical Space Astronomy Earth Geography Oceans Oceanography 4. Man Made Architecture 5. Social Sociology, Psychology http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;433347648;fp;2;fpid;1

29. The deeper challenges for Semantic Webs of the future lie in linking information and knowledge beyond the Ethernet clouds to these different: • Levels of Reality • Scales of Reality http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;433347648;fp;2;fpid;1

30. The Semantic Web has focussed on the logical truth of 1-1 links via URLS. A Semantic Web for Culture requires multiple sets of links which show how these 3 worlds are linked via many variants in terms of names and even explanations. http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;433347648;fp;2;fpid;1

31. Ideas for the deeper challenges of future webs are found in the earliest webs of language and knowledge in India and the East that are claimed to go back 10,000 years. http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;433347648;fp;2;fpid;1

32. Part 2The First Webs

33. The idea of a web goes back to stories of creation.

34. The Aksak dung beetle created firstman and woman from clay www.crystalinks.com/ scarabs.html

35. In India the story of creation is told as the story of the creation of language.

36. One of their starting points was study of 3 Phases of Moon.

37. Man = like Sun Woman = like Moon 3 Worlds = 3 Goddesses =3 Phases Heaven Sarasvati Rhea Earth Parvati HeraUnderworld Durga Demeter

38. 3 phases of moon =3 worlds =3 phases of life:Heaven Sarasvati Young Earth Parvati MotherUnderworld Durga Crone

39. Juno Aphrodite Minerva Thus the monthly cycle entails either 2 x 15 days (30), 3 x 9 days (27) or of 4 x 7 days (28).

40. Female India Young Woman Mature Woman Old Woman Kali Lakshmi Durga Lakshmi Durga Saraswati Arabia Al-Uzza Al-Lat Manat ‘Uzza Allat (al-ilāhat Goddess) Manat Virgin Mother Visionary, witch Greece Aphrodite Hera Minerva Selene Artemis Hecate Luna Diana Persephone Persephone Demeter Hecate This inspires the Triple goddess in East and West.

41. In terms of Information architecture this points to a first need:we need to go beyond 1-1 “is a” statements to represent the complexities of the triple goddess as her name moves from East to West.

42. The mysteries of woman weave 3 ages of life 3 worldswith 3 x 3 = 9 threads.

43. In Sanskrit MAMA = Nutritive Principle which shows how 1 becomes 2 becomes 3.

44. It also leads to triple symbolism: Moon, as nutritive force (Mama); as rooftop in Japan; as Triskell. [ii [i], h)]; i) as triskell[i]http://es.geocities.com/contraandrocentrismo/elam_india.html [ii] Photo by author from temple in Nikko. Cf. http://www.iecn.u-nancy.fr/~latocha/Photos/Japon15/Grand/triskell.jpgMama Symbol, Japanese Version and Triskell

45. It also leads to triple symbolism: Labyrinths in Celtic Ireland; Trinacria in Sicily and variants in Celtic Northern France.

46. 3 Worlds of Knowledge evolve in a Matrix in 7 Stages

47. Stages1. ANAM Nameless2. AGAM Inaccessible3. ALAKSA Incomprehensible4. AUM Vibration5. Kala Time6. Desh Space7. Patra or Anu Individuation

48. Stage 1 is A ANAM Nameless

49. Stage 1 of Pre -creation results in one point.

50. Λ Downward force in the evening A I Λ I +V sideways at noon > K. K Λ A Upward force in the morning. The prime force is 1 with 3 forces potentially that will become 3 phases of the day.