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]
- meaningful advertising, targeted advertising
- Academic introduction
- Business Virtue
- The ability to work with meaning can help businesses understand the value of a broader range of virtues.