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We can work with Meaning in our data. This wiki is about that.

Meaningful-Data is a sister wiki to Meaningful Code. This wiki is focused on data and the code wiki is focused on programming. Together they tackle the problem of handling information.

Research[edit | edit source]

Although I started out in working with meaning in code, I have found that working with meaning in data is a deeper level. That's why the name of this wiki.

This wiki contains jonrgrover's research with endemes and other forms of meaning representation and processing.

Theory[edit | edit source]

How do you distinguish 'data', 'information', 'meaning', and 'knowledge' in computing?

How do you work with meaning in code?

Endeme Lists[edit | edit source]

Problems in Software Development[edit | edit source]

Software development shows signs of trouble. Some of them based on tight coupling especially tight field coupling. Some of them based on missing features related to meaning.

  • Fixing the problem of software development requires a complete overturning of the way we do things. Maybe that's overstating it. I haven't done a quantitative analysis of all software development practices to see how many need to be replaced. The overturning might be 50% or maybe even as little as 25%.

Meaningful Data Wiki Format[edit | edit source]

I'm using lower case for links and title case for categories. I haven't decided whether endemes sets on this wiki should end with the suffix '_endeme_set' or not.

Normal Forms[edit | edit source]

Endemes have a normal form. Endeme sets also have a normal form.

For Various Audiences[edit | edit source]