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Link in epistemology

This analysis demonstrate what the link is and why it is a tool central to epistemology rather than being secondary. Links take multiple forms and are pervasive, even when we do not notice them or consider them as such, this is what motivates this analysis.

• introduction
  • how do you arrived here?
    • through a link, so if HTTP referrer is empty
      • probably given from a contact
      • else through another website
• links existing before the web
  • mentioning a person name, social links
    • sociology, Wikipedia:Six degrees of separation and Wikipedia:Erdős number
  • internal reference
    • Euclid's Elements, Dijkstra's EWD
  • literary quoting
  • scientific references
  • Wikipedia:Pointer (computing)
• linking to
  • anchoring your argument in the existing work
    • quality of information and published works
  • leveraging work that has been done before
    • you simply do not have the resource to write or do again everything your work relies on
    • Wikipedia:Standing on the shoulders of giants, Wikipedia:Modular design, not Wikipedia:Reinventing the wheel
    • combination possibilities
      • while keeping in check Wikipedia:Information overload
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Citing sources
• getting linked
  • coherence
    • Cool URIs don't change, Hypertext Style W3C
    • URL shorteners
  • publicly available
    • OpenAccess
• exploring links
  • mathematics and in particular Wikipedia:Graph theory
    • Wikipedia:Transitive relation
  • Publish or Perish, PageRank, search engines
  • graph visualization
    • Wikipedia:Graph drawing or Graph layout
• the semantic web
  • word and names are links, pointer to concepts, structuring information
  • typed links, Wikipedia:Ontology )information science), tags, ...
  • yet fundamentally different?
  • FB_Wiki:Tools/SemanticWeb
  • LinkedData in W3C Design Issues

See also

• Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
• UniNetVerseVisu
• Wikipedia:Monism

To integrate

• database entry points, cf DATAmatrix
• Wikipedia:Link
• Axioms of Web architecture, Tim Berners-Lee from 1996 up to now
  • The Implications of Links
  • Links and Law
  • Univeral Resource Identifiers
• even more generalist viewpoint
  • Wikipedia:Mindwalk (1990) metaphor
    • quantum continuity extract
    • during which a theoretical physicist explain in the Mont Saint-Michel to her friend that down to the atom everything is linked that the wall is not less linked to your arm that she is to him
  • Evolution of Networks: From Biological Nets to the Internet and WWW by S. N. Dorogovtsev and J. F. F. Mendes, Oxford University Press 2003
  • Wikipedia:Protein–protein interaction (PPIs)
• Le livre des liens by David Guez, 1995

Inspired by

FB_Wiki:Presentations/IntroductionToWikis in particular its "1er lien" section and WhyWikis as wikis are excellent to manage links (simple page creation through new link, page redirection, transclusion, intermap, anchors).