Re: PM-KR Wiki + Weekly Summaries — Practical Implementation

Dear Christoph, Milton, and PM-KR Community,

Christoph, your "bodies through boundaries" insight resonates deeply 
with PM-KR's architecture:

 > "Declarative first to structure bodies through boundaries. Procedural 
second to animate activity in and around bodies. A body is a whole 
system of something."

**This IS the K3D paradigm:**
- **Declarative boundaries** = House structure (walls, doors, spatial 
addresses define the body)
- **Procedural activity** = TRM navigation (agent animates the body by 
querying Galaxy, composing RPN)
- **Body = whole system** = House-centric architecture (all dimensions 
considered, unified workspace)

Your systems architecture perspective validates what Milton articulated 
mathematically (mandala graph theory) and what K3D implements 
practically. Beautiful convergence. 🙏

## Practical Implementation: Wiki + Weekly Summaries

**Christoph asked:** "How could we go about doing this practically? Do 
we need to build something or are there existing solutions?"

**My answer: GitHub-based, markdown, version-controlled — existing 
solutions, zero custom build.**

### 1. **GitHub Wiki Structure (Existing Solution)**

**Platform:** GitHub repository wiki 
(https://github.com/danielcamposramos/Knowledge3D/wiki)

**Why GitHub:**
- ✅ Version control (track all changes, revert if needed)
- ✅ Markdown (human-readable, no proprietary format)
- ✅ Collaborative editing (anyone with permissions can contribute)
- ✅ Cross-linking (link between wiki pages, specs, issues)
- ✅ Public archive (W3C transparency requirement)

**Proposed structure:**

```
/wiki/
   ├── Home.md (Overview + navigation)
   ├── cross-posting/
   │   ├── AIKR_CG.md (Links to AI-KR CG discussions relevant to PM-KR)
   │   ├── WebML_CG.md (Links to Web ML CG discussions - e.g., WebMCP)
   │   ├── VC_WG.md (Links to Verifiable Credentials WG discussions)
   │   └── JSON_LD_WG.md (Links to JSON-LD WG discussions)
   ├── weekly-summaries/
   │   ├── 2026-W09.md (Feb 24-28, 2026)
   │   ├── 2026-W10.md (Mar 3-7, 2026)
   │   └── template.md (Standard format for consistency)
   ├── literature/
   │   ├── declarative-procedural.md (Papers, articles on declarative vs 
procedural)
   │   ├── mandala-graph-theory.md (Milton's work + related references)
   │   └── verifiable-credentials.md (VC specs, implementations, use cases)
   └── decisions/
       ├── 2026-02-28-declarative-procedural-synergy.md (Record of 
mission statement revision)
       └── template.md (Architecture Decision Record format)
```

**Tools needed:**
- **Zero custom build** — just GitHub + markdown editors
- **Optional:** GitHub Actions to auto-generate summary drafts (pull 
from mailing list, issues, PRs)

### 2. **Weekly Summary Format (Condensed, No AI Verbosity)**

**Milton's requirement:** "Condensed summary form, without all the 
verbal add-ons that AI chatbots typically generate."

**Proposed template:**

```markdown
# PM-KR Weekly Summary — 2026-W09 (Feb 24-28)

## Key Developments
- Mission statement revised (v1.0 → v1.2): Declarative + procedural synergy
- Dave Raggett feedback: Procedural vs declarative positioning clarified
- Milton Ponson insight: Mandala graph theory addresses both simultaneously
- Christoph Dorn: "Bodies through boundaries" validates House-centric 
paradigm

## New Members
- [None this week, 18+ members stable]

## Literature/Prior Art
- PKN (Procedural Knowledge Networks): Declarative + qualitative metadata
- Gemini analysis (Milton): "Know-what" (declarative) vs "know-how" 
(procedural)
- Christoph: "Declarative structure, procedural animation" (systems 
perspective)

## Cross-CG Discussions
- AIKR-CG: Milton's mandala graph theory (declarative/procedural duality)
- VC-WG: Knowledge provenance for procedural programs
- WebML-CG: WebMCP security concerns (Paola Di Maio critique)

## Technical Questions Raised
1. How should PM-KR's execution layer integrate with RDF/OWL ontologies?
2. Are proposed context inheritance/override rules sufficient?
3. Which applications (education, gaming, science, accessibility, AI) to 
prioritize?
4. How do PM-KR security patterns apply to WebMCP?

## Action Items
- [x] Mission statement updated (v1.2)
- [x] GitHub wiki structure created
- [ ] First weekly summary published (target: Monday, March 3)
- [ ] Joint security workshop proposed (WebMCP + PM-KR + VC WG)

## Next Week Preview
- PM-KR Core Specification v0.1 drafting begins
- Community feedback on declarative integration approaches
- Cross-CG collaboration on security patterns
```

**Length:** ~150 lines (vs typical AI chatbot output: 500+ lines with 
verbose explanations)

**Tone:** Factual, concise, actionable (no "I think," "perhaps," "it seems")

### 3. **Tooling Strategy: Existing Solutions First**

**Christoph asked:** "Do we need to build something?"

**My approach: Existing solutions + minimal automation.**

**Phase 1 (Now → March 2026): Manual + GitHub**
- Wiki pages: Manually written in markdown
- Weekly summaries: Manually curated from mailing list + GitHub activity
- Cross-posting links: Manually collected
- **Tools:** GitHub web interface, any markdown editor

**Phase 2 (April 2026+): Light automation**
- GitHub Actions: Auto-pull mailing list threads (public-pm-kr@w3.org 
archives)
- Script: Generate draft summary from GitHub issues, PRs, commits
- **Human review:** Always required (no auto-publish, maintain quality)

**Phase 3 (Q3 2026+): If community grows**
- Consider dedicated wiki platform (e.g., Docusaurus, MkDocs) if GitHub 
wiki becomes limiting
- But for 18+ members, GitHub wiki is sufficient

**Philosophy:** Start simple, add automation only when manual process 
becomes bottleneck.

### 4. **Weekly Summary Workflow (Practical Process)**

**Who writes it:**
- Primary: PM-KR chairs (Daniel + Milton) alternate weeks
- Community contributions: Anyone can submit draft sections via GitHub PR

**When:**
- **Friday:** Draft summary (review week's activity)
- **Saturday:** Community review (mailing list feedback)
- **Monday:** Publish final summary (wiki + mailing list post)

**Sources:**
1. **Mailing list:** public-pm-kr@w3.org archives (key discussions)
2. **GitHub activity:** Issues, PRs, commits in Knowledge3D repo
3. **Cross-CG discussions:** Mentions of PM-KR in other W3C CG mailing lists
4. **Literature:** New papers, articles, specs relevant to PM-KR

**Quality control:**
- **Condensed:** Max 200 lines (vs AI chatbot 500+)
- **Factual:** No speculation, just what happened
- **Actionable:** Clear action items, next steps
- **Cross-linked:** Link to mailing list threads, GitHub issues, 
external resources

## Implementation Timeline

**This week (Feb 28 - Mar 3):**
- ✅ Create GitHub wiki structure (I'll do this today)
- ✅ Write first weekly summary (2026-W09) as template
- ✅ Post wiki link to mailing list

**Next week (Mar 3-7):**
- Community feedback on wiki structure
- Iterate on weekly summary format
- Publish second weekly summary (2026-W10)

**Month 1 (March 2026):**
- Establish workflow (who writes, when published)
- Gather community contributions
- Evaluate if automation is needed

**Month 3 (May 2026):**
- Review if GitHub wiki is sufficient or if dedicated platform needed
- Consider light automation (GitHub Actions for draft generation)

## Your "Bodies Through Boundaries" Insight

**Christoph, this maps directly to PM-KR's core architecture:**

**Declarative layer (structure bodies through boundaries):**
- House structure (walls, doors, rooms define spatial boundaries)
- Galaxy Universe organization (Drawing, Character, Word, Grammar, Math, 
Reality galaxies define knowledge boundaries)
- JSON-LD metadata (semantic relationships define conceptual boundaries)

**Procedural layer (animate activity in and around bodies):**
- TRM navigation (agent queries Galaxy, composes RPN programs)
- RPN execution (Cranium PTX kernels animate procedural programs)
- Context-specific behavior (same knowledge, different execution based 
on context)

**The "body" = House-centric paradigm:**
- House is the workspace (all dimensions: spatial, temporal, semantic, 
procedural)
- TRM is the inhabitant (animates the body by navigating, querying, 
creating)
- Galaxy Universe is the memory (distributed knowledge substrate)

**Your intuitions align perfectly with K3D's implementation. This gives 
me confidence we're on the right path.**

## Closing Thoughts

**Milton's mathematical insight (mandala graph theory) + Christoph's 
systems perspective ("bodies through boundaries") + K3D's implementation 
= PM-KR's unified vision.**

**This is exactly what W3C standardization should look like:**
- Theory (Milton) informs practice (Daniel)
- Systems architecture (Christoph) validates implementation (K3D)
- Community collaboration (18+ members) refines the vision

**Thank you both for this productive exchange.** 🙏

Best regards,

**Daniel Campos Ramos**
PM-KR Co-Chair (Implementation)
Brazilian Registered Electrical Engineer
W3C PM-KR Community Group
capitain_jack@yahoo.com

**P.S. Action Items:**
1. ✅ **Today:** Create GitHub wiki structure (I'll post link within 2 
hours)
2. ✅ **Today:** Write first weekly summary (2026-W09) as template
3. 🔄 **Monday, March 3:** Publish weekly summary to mailing list
4. 🔄 **This week:** Community feedback on wiki/summary format

---

**Links:**
- PM-KR GitHub Wiki (coming soon): 
https://github.com/danielcamposramos/Knowledge3D/wiki
- Weekly Summary Template (draft): 
https://github.com/danielcamposramos/Knowledge3D/wiki/weekly-summaries/template.md
- Cross-Posting Guidelines: 
https://github.com/danielcamposramos/Knowledge3D/wiki/cross-posting/

On 2/28/26 12:18 PM, Christoph wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2026, at 7:51 AM, Milton Ponson wrote:
>> In the AIKR CG I repeatedly mentioned being personally busy fleshing 
>> out mandala graph theory. What I actually did not mention is that it 
>> addresses both declarative and procedural approaches.
>>
>> I now realize that mathematicians and computer scientists when 
>> addressing foundational principles of artificial intelligence tend to 
>> speak slightly different languages, and consequently I did not even 
>> use the computer speak terms declarative and procedural in my notes.
>>
>> So I checked if I maybe right after all and this is what I found:
>> what is the difference and what are the key benefits of the 
>> declarative and procedural approach in knowledge representation for 
>> artificial intelligence
>>
>> https://share.google/aimode/pL2tANlD6ee0Cp2uz
>>
>> It seems I have been addressing doing both at the same time 
>> mathematically,  so maybe we should rephrase the mission statement to 
>> reflect the fact that we are trying to optimize the procedural 
>> approach, given the appropriate declarative approach as a starting 
>> point. This also resonates with the HP calculator and *dead brain 
>> mode* analogy given by Daniel.
>
> This resonates with my work as well:
>
>  1. Declarative first to structure bodies through boundaries.
>  2. Procedural second to animate activity in and around bodies.
>
> A body is a whole system of something. All dimensions are considered. 
> The structure is what binds concepts across dimensions.
>
> These are intuitions I have been getting.
>
>
>> And it would the also reflect the way the human brain works where the 
>> distinction between the two is blurred as I also mentioned in a post 
>> in another Community Group.
>> Sometimes I wonder if a Wiki page combining elements, findings, 
>> discussions of multiple Community Groups could help. We are already 
>> cross-posting all the time.
>> Would be an excellent idea for the PM-KR community group.
>>
>> As a mathematician I would also like to point out the usefulness of 
>> creating weekly summary reports of reviews of new literature of 
>> interest, points brought up in posts, and links to work in other 
>> community groups, based on interaction and reflections triggered by 
>> cross-posts.
>> And these in terms could be cross-posted.
>> And these should be written in a condensed summary form, without all 
>> the verbal add-ons that AI chatbots typically generate.
>
> This is an excellent idea!
>
> I was already thinking I need to build something like that for myself 
> to efficiently keep up.
>
> How could we go about doing this practically? Do we need to build 
> something for it or are there existing solutions?
>
> Christoph

Received on Saturday, 28 February 2026 15:42:40 UTC