Difference between revisions of "Organic Ontology"

Revision as of 23:06, 30 August 2008

We are pursuing the vision of a generic organisational framework composed of people working together in a specific unified way, which we shall attempt to describe in this article. Wiki organisation is a good step in the right direction toward this vision but it is important to understand that we are not talking about a specific technology here, but rather a way of working which can be encapsulated by, or implemented within almost any collaborative environment.

The definition of this system undergoes continuous refinement as we use it to organise and manage our own jobs and projects. There are a number of top-level aspects to this way which we call classes. The whole system is encapsulated in an overall tree structure which we call the Organic Ontology, eventually we hope for this structure to be defined to the extent that a complete description of the system can be exported in an official ontology using Web Ontology Language. This exported information can then be importing into other high level environments such as Croquet.

About the structure

The current tree is basically a two-level category tree using Category:Classes as the root, but the class nodes in the tree link to their portal article instead of the usual category page. Each of the classes have their subcategories shown within their tree node, but this level just links to normal category pages not to further portals.

Current structure

The current version of the ontology in as a TreeView is in the Tree:Ontology article, and is transcluded below. Each item in the top level is a class.