Living ontology
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See first a simpler explanation intended for practical immediate use. This is a history of the effort providing links to other resources about the theory. The category:living ontology shows all current resources.
Extreme ontology wonks will want to review the description in the context of semantic wiki in egovernment and in the context of other semantic wiki projects. The semantic web vocabulary comparison and assessment of semantic wikis in general emphasize that LO is unique in supporting verb/noun/type theory strictly.
The living ontology (LO) is an emergent effort to characterize digital actions so exactly that there is no barrier to creating a reflexive intranet and clearing barriers to an ultra-reflexive intranet. It was initiated by the Efficient Civics Guild in about 2004. Its ultimate intent is to answer where/when/who without relying on any formal ontology tags or schemes.
In the private sector various parallel efforts to instrument kaizen to answer why/how/much questions build on the instructional capital of living ontology.
For a more detailed reference, history and theory see the much more extensive coverage at openpolitics.ca using which ECG debates ultra-reflexive issues.
It begins with reflective processes that occur within digital media defining their organization protocols, e.g. their publish protocol, but seeks to chronicle ultimately the reflexive processes by which changes to rules such as eg:rules are negotiated.
It combines trollish with terms arising in mediawiki-based services and keitai usage, and the ontological distinctions required to keep open politics in force. It grew from praxis in political wikis which were thought to reveal ultra-reflexive constraints - mostly human command verbs that would directly form or direct factions in troll-sysop struggle thought to represent real political factions. see Wikipedia article characterizing one such conflict.
If the Troll Age involves the definition of new language, living ontology is meant to be the core command verb reference of that language. See also five levels of intranet.
Where they overlap, living ontology is a direct competitor to technology-driven ontologies such as OWL or SUMO. Living ontology could best be described perhaps as body-driven.
