Geoconcepts Ontology, Skeleton Structure by avier Ruiz Aranguren at Trabajos Catastrales S.A. Two versions can be used: Geoconcepts Ontology v1.2, and v1.2 SWRL enhanced model.
People are building dictionaries and ontologies all over the place today. For example, researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’s School of Computing are working on an original system for [...]

 
 
These are a reminder that there is much beauty and love in the world.
Peace Profound,
Asalaam Aleichem,
Shalom,
God Bless You,
Blessed Be,
Sat Sri Akhal,
Namaste,

John

Imagine taking a piece of door hardware all the way through the code review process: from an assembly of parts, to a hardware set, to a door, to an egress corridor, to a building, to the local building authority, the state, the country, and the world.

80 Series, Narrow Design, Sargent Co.
MANUFACTURING STANDARDS
American National Standards Institute [...]

Stack from the Open Knowledge Foundation (176)

Benefits of Using the BIMstorm Process and OPS Onuma Planning System to develop Open Standards  
Open standards for building and geospatial information are rapidly changing.  So much is being figured out at the same time its hard to know which of the many parallel tracks will eventually meet in the distance.  For example:
Performance Specifications:  Proprietary [...]

Collages about linking huge amounts of open data in hyperbolic space. Individual images and links are below.

 
A&AStructuredBackgroundCombination
Components starting with Michael K. Bergman on AI3 Adaptive Information, Adaptive Innovation, Adaptive Infrastructure. Not all components below are shown above.
Lack of Road Signs Causes Collisions and Missed Turns (459)

 
One Possible Road Map (515)

Full UMBEL Graph [...]

Download PDF Where Does All This Information Belong [ DMacPJBIM08 ] to appear in the Fall 08 online version of the Journal of Building Information Modeling
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COMMENT FROM JACK PARK ON THE CODE TEMPLATE CONCEPT
“I see this as a topic map question with a good query mechanism that would allow you to match patterns and [...]

Looking at colors for the code/classification templates for the Building Service Performance Project at Ontolog. Sample building models provided courtesy of Kimon Onuma at Onuma Planning System which is used for BIMstorm.
The basis of the color design is adapted from this brochure at the Sasquatch Music Festival. Comments welcome on the colors above, other examples of color [...]

Today, there are so many ways to process ideas and information in computers and networks. However, most web exchanges are still based on words in the English language. However, when the information has to do with changing events, relationships, and critical paths ~ drawings and diagrams are able to convey what has already been [...]

Context Driven Topologies are mathematical groups of ideas and information transmitted over computers and networks.  Their form and process are expressed using drawings and specifications.  Their purpose is to organize and drive network topologies to answer questions and derive meaning from data collections of any size, particularly in open source environments.  The [...]

Conversation between Jim Disbrow and Deborah MacPherson regarding the component and community of interest we’re trying to build.  Metaphors comparing semantic architecture vs building architecture are presented on 2 levels: Residential vs Commercial.
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RESIDENTIAL

Details of the trademarked EuraCraft System at gutterspecialist.com
JD: …for artists to understand and help depict relationships in semantic space….Building outbuildings and barns might be [...]

Technology advances rapidly in nearly every industry. Yet, many tools and resources do not provide easy access or interpreted meaningful benefit to the general public. Some have said Accuracy&Aesthetics is developing a “building code” for semantic space based on building in the real world.
For example, Building Information Modeling could have innumerable uses for museums and [...]

There is a gathering storm to document space in the physical world that will eventually impact, or help to form and track, the development of the semantic world. Go see BIMstorm ~ here are some reports.
BIMstorm is a series of spontaneous 24 hour long collaborations organized by the Onuma Planning System. The participants don’t even [...]

A drop of dew falls on a leaf
It quivers and gleams
And then slides onto the next leaf
pulsating not knowing what shape to take
slipping again onto another leaf
moving only slightly and again drops to the leaf below
just before the sun comes up
it reaches the last leaf
–Elias Rocha, July 10, 2006

Painting from a “The Writing of Light” [...]

Duane Nickull Senior Standards Strategist for Adobe Systems set forth a set of goals on Ontolog Forum
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Start thinking about the 2008 Ontology Summit
+ Free public API’s where organizations with folksonomies (tag clouds often represent these), can link terms in their folksonomies to disambiguate words like “Washington” which may have several meanings.
+ a [...]

To follow are excerpts from the forward to Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle, and Julia Child 1963 version, Alfred A Knopf publishers in New York.

To
La Belle France

WHOSE PEASANTS, FISHERMAN, HOUSEWIVES,
AND PRINCES – NOT TO MENTION HER CHEFS -
THROUGH GENERATIONS OF INVENTIVE AND
LOVING CONCENTRATION HAVE CREATED ONEOF THE [...]

Krzysztof Penderecki communicates flow in his musical compositions through his own annotation system. Eventually his drawings are translated into traditional notes and lines so performers can play the work. But for his own purposes, and maybe to explain the details and overall patterns to performers and patrons – Penderecki’s own system [...]

The Information R/evolution video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming about the skills needed to harness, evaluate, and create information more effectively.

A selection of illustrations by Rockwell Kent, in Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, published by Random House, in 1930 are used herein as an experiment about tags.
Written following the CSI format for architectural specifications by breaking into PARTS 1, 2, 3.
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PART 1 – GENERAL
The National Gallery of Art presented a film “Retracing Rockwell Kent” by [...]

Music collaboration and community storytelling are different today. Not only can participants be in different locations, they can also be from different eras, with dramatically different memories and interpretations of the same piece of music or story.
For example, look at Dust-to-Digital whose mission is to “produce high quality cultural artifacts, which combine rare, essential [...]

Deciding how to develop or acquire open source systems is different than standing in the store looking at software boxes. Open source will continue to develop against a constantly evolving and improving background. If there was a defined open source lifecycle for the construction of open source data and processing techniques, maybe the [...]

Images about unfolding, expanding, and connecting

Heaven’s Orb from Rob’s Puzzle Page

PETER MAX boxed jigsaw puzzle at GASOLINE ALLEY ANTIQUES Antique Toys & Collectible

The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections, by Stewart T. Coffin
This simple novelty (Fig. 126) is a practical example of a coordinate-motion puzzle in three dimensions. Each of the six identical puzzle pieces is [...]

From the Cleveland Museum of Art

Constructivist Portrait, Ellen Carey 1983

Male Antelope-Anteater Headdress (chi wara-sogoni kun)
Africa, Mali, Bamana, Diaura or Djiumu Area, 1920s

Untitled, Sonia Delaunay

Gray Scramble (Single), Frank Stella, 1936

Creative Therapy, Jacob Lawrence, 1949
The Persistence of Geometry exhibition was organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art in collaboration with MOCA Cleveland and was made possible through [...]

There is a place in Washington DC called Busboys and Poets that believes social justice and peace are achievable goals.
What does this mean today? What data structures need to be built to further this goal? What geometry works best to distribute and streamline the information flow?

Peace Education Image by D@dalos
Today, there were 1000 monks and [...]

A survey to track the needs of an historic renovation architectural project to see what public information is available about the property.
The place is Strider Farm, a stone house built 1790 outside Harpers Ferry WV.

National Registry of Historic Places Nomination Form
Prepared by historian Michael J. Pauley
Maintained and published at www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/jefferson/87002524.pdf
The next in addition to the [...]

Favorite quote from Edward J. Barkmeyer in the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division at National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
“….the problem is that Internet is still the big city of the Middle Ages. We know how to build all kinds of buildings and we have a lot of demand for them and a lot [...]

“It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human culture, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence [...]

According to sustainable design architect William McDonough, in the world of building codes, context is all.
THE HANNOVER PRINCIPLES
1. Insist on the right of humanity and nature to co-exist in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.

2000 Carbon Atoms in a Diamond Lattice
James R. Morris, C. Z. Wang and K. M. Ho
2. Recognize interdependence. [...]

If the construction of semantic space was an organized process like the construction of physical space, more consensus documents are needed by governments, professional organizations, and the general public.
The real world historical process of creating, promoting, and maintaining places for democracy to be conducted occurs in places and buildings around the world. The project map [...]

Change usually involves three aspects; people, processes and culture. From the JISC InfoKit on Change Management.

Change Model, Joshua Freedman talking about Alan Deutschman on 6seconds. The Six Seconds’ EQ change model guides the process of effective change. The model shows how to engage the emotional drivers to sustain a continuous transformational process.

Bruce Mau Designing Positive [...]

Movements such as democracy and trends in collective thinking must have some underlying mathematics that could be studied and perhaps improved to gently push information in more productive directions. But what would that look like?

Dynamic Painting by San Base, a Canadian artist born in Russia.

We Never Change Do We Melanie Weidner Listen for Joy

Abstract stripes [...]

Images of riding Vespas by Courtney Bowditch

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Can the digital world be built like the physical world? Which construction document practices in the physical world have legitimate, helpful application to the construction of virtual worlds? What are the subject matters of these new construction documents? How are they approved and maintained over the life cycle of virtual constructions? What is the best [...]

The Rooms from Daily Dose of Imagery
Semantic architecture is not like physical architecture because evidence of previous or alternate use is hard to find.  There is little reason to study older digital archiving or exchange requirements.  There is no carbon footprint equivalent to measure over time yet.

Theosophical Publishing House   Ideas and information are published, maintained and [...]

Making your own view of science and society

Too bad Internet users cant see their information flow while it is being exchanged or streamline its flow through the use of more efficient, graceful shapes.

Above is an example of (an out of date) webpage with purple numbers envisioned by Doug Engelbart and Bootstrap.org An overlay is put on to a webpage generating random numbers to go right to the place where the text or image is located. The text below was written by Doug Engelbart, 23-Oct-2000. [...]

location in the conceptual landscape

Various depictions of communications and information put into shapes.

Template for discourse about ontologies, rather than a conceptual model of them (10PC). Created by PeterBrown, DeniseBedford, JimDisbrow, JackTeller and SusanTurnbull (10RW) at the Population Session Breakout Group at OntologSummit2007.
[Figure 1: Ontology Dimensions Map] (10OD)
PeterBrown: ….taking on board comments from our working group and others regarding Gestalt….including checking/modifying it against the prose [...]

Images from Inscribing Meaning, Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art at the National Museum of African Art.
WAYS OF KNOWING

Bi-Folio from the Qur’an
Egypt
Late 14th century
Ink, pigment, and gold on paper
H x W: 37.8 x 53.2 cm. (14 7/8 x 20 15/16 in.]
Sackler Gallery, S1995.115a-d
INSCRIBING THE BODY

Amulet ring
Undetermined peoples
Morocco
Early 20th century
Silver alloy
H x W x D: [...]

This is an image from the Standard Upper Ontology Working Group (SUO WG) Also shown as Fig. 3 in Accuracy&Aesthetic director Kenneth Field’s upcoming publication “Ontologies, Categories, Folksonomies: An Organised Language of Sound” to be published in the fall and copyrighted by Organised Sound, an International Journal of Music and Technology, Cambridge Journals.
Ken is interested [...]

This is what the web language OWL looks like.
For clarity all letters are removed, only numbers and symbols remain.

This is what it looks like flattened, mashed up together vertically

Matthew Belanger has created Time Indefinite, a repository and collective timeline of individual significant moments in time.
What if everyone everywhere could dial in to this repository to create one shared recorded memory? Even with different views on what constitutes a significant moment in time?
ARTISTS STATEMENT MATTHEW BELANGER: “We all experience the occasional moment in [...]

Jin Akino, a Japanese professional photographer, has captured the abstract beauty of nature, scenic landscapes, solemn architectures, and smile. His photoworks show various kinds of beauty on the earth and express both subtlety and expansiveness.
Because of his eye for beauty, capturing patterns and flow, Jin will be the official photographer for Accuracy&Aesthetics projects.

ARTISTS STATEMENT

It means [...]

Building information modeling (BIM) and the architecture, engineering, and construction community (AEC) and now geographic information systems (GIS) community are embroiled in interoperability issues. Google Earth gives us a glimpse of what it may be like some day to find a museum and go in to the building.
Now with the new alliance between Google Earth [...]

Some fascinating drawings and examples have been presented at OntologySummit2007
The question is, during the initial time when the extent and value of ontologies is first being so passionately discussed and formulated, how to create a simple drawing so everyone discussing ontologies knows they are talking about the same thing? At this point, it should [...]

The beauty of the single layer circuit.

If attempting to draw the geometry of knowledge changing over time, curves and projection geometry make everything more complicated.
Computers prefer straight lines with nice even units but the geometry of knowledge seems more fluid. Important continuity must be shown and traced, some form of projection is nearly always be involved.
Domes, globes, spheres and spirals [...]

May 25, 2005 astronomer Frank Summers and computer animator Greg Bacon at the Space Telescope Science Institute created a fascinating slide show about their collaboration entitled “Accuracy and Aesthetics, Scientific Visualization Using Hollywood Tools”

Frank Summers and Greg Bacon were the two principle visualizers on a 3 minute IMAX film called “Hubble: Galaxies Across Space [...]

Eventually opposing and extreme views will eventually cancel eachother out. The truth will be exposed because that is all that would be left.

Glides are characters in the book The Maze Game, by Diana Reed Slattery, see Glide, An Interactive Exploration of Visual Language. Glides communicate using a language based on gestures and shapes, they send each other messages and pass down stories by skating on ice, dancing and other means their keepers don’t understand. Here are the [...]

Turbulence Commission: “Gothamberg” by Martin Wattenberg and Marek Walczak, with Chuck Crow, Johanna Kindvall, Warren Lehrer, Christiane Paul and Vivian Selbo.

Everyone who has lived in an apartment has a story to tell. “Gothamberg” is a place to read, interact and exchange stories of lives in apartment buildings. Together, these tales of unwanted sounds and smells, [...]

What is the refresh rate for the human brain versus display devices?
Art Formerly Known as New Media/Machine Performance Survey

Visual Music Exhibit at the Hirshhorn
Which display devices and computer memories meet the performance requirements to achieve an accurate, compelling refresh rate?

Crucial Image Gallery

Cole Projectors

Christie

Portrait Displays

Projectors _______________

Practical Dream Machine

Bridget Riley
On 16/01/07 22:25 at empyre digest, The Art Gallery of Knoxville > probably wrote: What skills are necessary for a participatory culture?
WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE Basic Pedagogical Goals
 
Multimodal
 
Convergent
 
Mobile
 
Immersive
 
Interactive
 
Transformative
 
Generational
 
Multicultural, Global
 
Negotiation
 
Appropriative
 
Get Structured
 
Convergent
 
Synthesis
 
Expression
 
Performance
 
Judgment
 
Negotiation
 
Sampling

Harsh Patel 59 Warren Street, Top Floor, New York, NY 10007

Stair Tread As-Built where the notch at the top is a detail mark on the drawing, Source Unknown, flew like wildfire around WDG Architecture another funny picture where the source is unknown is here

 
Deciding what information is shown versus specified for the construction and maintenance of semantic space [...]

In architectural construction documents, elements may appear many times in the drawings but are only specified in one location in the project manual. To assure consistency and to know where to look for information, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Engineers Joint Contract Document Committee (EJCDC) established a Uniform Location of Subject Matter published [...]

By TAKASUGI Shinji

Number Systems of the World
I translate words included in number words to English, and I use ‘+’ and ‘?’ for implicit additions and multiplications. For instance, I explain the French words vingt et un (21) and quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (99) as “20 and 1″ and “4 ? 20 + 10 + 9″ respectively.
Please let me [...]

The Internet is a place where ideas and information that are only partially understood can come together and be explored. But, what is the best fundamental way to show You Are Here?

The Internet Mapping Project by Bill Cheswick and Lumeta makes an edgeless universe of connected areas to at least see an extent. But this [...]

 
Top: All of Figure 5
5A,5B, 5C:  Some of Figure 5
Figure 5: A closer inspection between three unrelated Context Driven Topologies reveals the recent histories of each user working on a task to organize their ideas and information. The only overlap between these three could be they are sitting in a coffee shop contemplating how to [...]

According to Wikipedia on November 22, 2006: The spiral model is a software development process combining elements of both design and prototyping-in-stages, in an effort to combine advantages of top-down and bottom-up concepts.
What a perfect shape spirals are to portray complex evolving relationships. Just imagine the possibilities using some of the spirals shown here as [...]

If a Spectrum of information could be laid out and given to a group of film makers with the task of filling in every blank and representing every possible option to capture the place of London, how would they show ~ the Clash, “Mind the Gap” underground announcements and refrigerator magnets, William Wallace in all [...]

A wide range of ideas and information by Jose Sanchez Cerezo

Description: An image of the Mandelbrot set at 1x zoom.
Source: self-made using XAOS 3.1 and Microsoft Paint 5.1
By: Nadim Ghaznavi

Its become almost impossible to identify the original context of an image. For example:

Was retrieved for a virtual conference on whale watching, but the original is from www.physics.helsinki.fi/whale/.

Was discovered on a blog, it is also shown on googlisti.com/tag/news/ and many other locations but it was started out as the graduation project of Jeroen Wijering from [...]

These are images from my daughter, the architect Laura Spinadel. She is leading two enterprises, BUSarchitektur and BOA (multimedia).
The designs will be presented as follows:
She and 5 architects from her studio will present a Workshop on the subject “Net-malls porte?os” at the Facultad de Arquitectura, Dise?o y Urbanismo, University of Buenos Aires, from 23 October [...]

This is a music performance I gave at a Unity Church in Fairfax, Virginia on New Year’s Eve, 2005 using my collection of 13 antique Tibetan Singing Bowls.
(Rev.) John Giunta

What an amazing invention Google Earth is. It is unprecedented how lucky all people are today to have access to these images and geographic locations knit together and made available for free.

One of the many beauties of Google Earth is that it was not put together for wars, spying, or tracking hurricanes ~ even if [...]

If ideas and information can be cared for like a garden over long periods of time, we need simpler tools to assemble the essential elements and finishing touches needed to create memorable semantic spaces.
The current digital world is not set up to cultivate reflective and contemplative places able to transcend any one person or organization’s [...]

What are the requirements for the general public to be able to move through shared databases?
How can huge numbers of people be provided with basic services they need in?an information?place?
What can we learn from architects and urban planners about the design of physical space?to reapply the best practices and design principles?to semantic space?
What about the [...]

If this image represented a stack of learning modules rather than rocks, the student could not fully understand all of the material without the small piece on the right.
For example, what if a sequence of learning in mathematics was to be taught from the bottom up: start with the rock on the bottom – geometry. [...]

You can’t be surrounded by information looking at a computer screen that is only in front of you.

What will the ideal interface be in ten years? 100 years? How can we make use of projectors and public media rooms today?

Why do people make things and what is the most direct way to connect makers to viewers?

How can digital systems be designed and used to see exactly what original authors intend?

If ideas and information can be assigned something like a place – what is the best way to direct people from one place to [...]

The most difficult part of any design is determining the colors. A great resource for mapmakers is the Color Brewer by Cindy Brewer at Penn State University.
These two images were retrieved searching the term “visualization” on Google Images:

Mapped Up was found on the blog by Pito Salas., the RSS tracking application is actually made by [...]

Crop of The Spinner by Billy Houdek, painting of a woman who talks too much while in the act of retelling a story.
Digital dots coming together are added. The image is zoomed into this area because its interesting to wonder what the best way is to show the transition from individual elements, like words, into [...]

Context Driven Topologies (CDT): broadcasting ideas and information to and from specific places based on context.Places, in this sense, means geographic region and cultural background, knowledge domain and education level, and all of their corresponding online resources.Paper: DigitizingtheNonDigital.ITAL2006

Languages of the World Map edited by Raymond G. Gordon Jr. in 1995 for Ethnologue.
Seeking permission to alter the graphic by marking the locations of the Board of Directors and develop a symbolic overlay to indicate the languages each person uses in the places they live and where they work. For example, Vera W. de [...]