ACM hypertext 2011
Academic Paper. Diagramming and Spatial Hypertext Software Workshop Programme, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2011
Academic Paper. Diagramming and Spatial Hypertext Software Workshop Programme, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2011
Esoteric Concept Maps of Antiquity - Resolving visual integrity within constantly evolving Concept Map Ontology
An incredible amount of information variety is spewed out each day. Content is not king anymore but a chaotic kingdom run like an asylum. Our current ontological frameworks are bursting at the seams in being able to interconnect and channelize information without traditional categorical approaches. When dealing with visualization of information complexity and variety over time, our current quantified graphs, qualitative categorizations and semi structured cartesian axis are lacking severely in dealing with variety explosion.
A question burning in my mind was, how was complex knowledge captured, stored and shared during middle ages and ancient cultures such as Hinduism or Judaism? Among mystical information management systems are mandalas, yantras and mnemonic systems of Bruno Latur. I sought the example of the Jewish Sephirot to renew our understanding of concept maps and challenge current ontological limitations in contemporary visual frameworks.
Abstract
Concept Maps have been used as efficient tools for individual and collaborative methods for organizing and representing knowledge. However, questioning the epistemological integrity of decision making through such maps due to ontological challenges faced by the system, remains a complex area of inquiry.
Concept Maps have been used as efficient tools for individual and collaborative methods for organizing and representing knowledge. However, questioning the epistemological integrity of decision making through such maps due to ontological challenges faced by the system, remains a complex area of inquiry.
Multi-ontology sense making points out that it is important to approach an ontology in both structured and unstructured manner, depending on the context. A mechanism is lacking to tackle the challenges of the epistemological foundations and origins of concepts that would improve the Universality in any one of these systems.
However, universality and mapping the highest natures of being was the format of esoteric religious representations such as the ‘Hindu’ Sri Yantra and ‘Jewish’ Sefirot. Hence researchers could perhaps get insights for working toward a stable, comprehensive, macrocosmic framework for multi-ontological sense making. While the scientist, philosopher and mystique uses one’s own epistemology and context to understand the structure, the study of such systems from antiquity could hold databases of ontological realities behind our systems thinking.
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Diagramming And Spatial Hypertext Software (DASHS) Workshop Programme, June 6 2011, Eindhoven Netherlands
