- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:40:19 -0400
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
> >>> I don't know what Dr. Shirky thinks "information space" is, but the > >>> fact that he puts scare quotes around it, and covers it under > >>> visualization, suggests he's using it differently from the TAG. > >> > >> No. The notion of an information space and how to visualize such > >> a space are two related topics. Here is a cool example > >> > >> http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/info_maps.html > >> > >> where they show maps (visualizations) of different information spaces. > > > > Wow, some very nice pictures. I'd seen a few of them before. I don't > > see that page's usage supporting the TAG's usage, where information > > spaces are *not* necessarily related to visualization. > > Sandro, they are two topics: one is the space, the other is visualizing > that space. That page says it is talking about maps of information > spaces. Yeah, sorry. I didn't really notice that phrasing until about 20 seconds after hitting send. Arg. > That is just like the AAA handing out maps of physical roads, > though a bit harder to visualize because the geography isn't forced > into a mostly-flat-spherical plane. The relations within and between > information create a space. This *is* a common term in the area of > Web architecture and it should be used when appropriate. > > Please, can we just be a tad less oversensitive about ontologies > on this list? > > Half the time I can't carry on even the most trivial > conversations with other TAG members without being interrupted. Well, I didn't know what an "information space" was (not in any useful sense), and I couldn't find out through Google, FOLDOC, or Wikipedia. That seemed worth reporting. I should have done it that more clearly. (I'm still not being offered a definition that makes sense to me, but I don't need to waste your time on that. I'm taking this to off-list archive space as a token gesture towards not interrupting the TAG.) -- sandro
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