This is the new blog for Sandro Hawke to share his rants about how computer systems should be decentralized. Sandro works for W3C and MIT, but of course he’s not wearing those hats when he’s blogging here.
The “y” spelling is kind of a pun. It came from thinking I need to “analyze how to decentralize“. I was sold when I noticed that the suffix “-lyze” means “disintegration or dissolution”, coming from the Greek lyein, to separate. So we’re pulling “central” apart from both sides, with both the “de-” prefix, and the “-lyze” suffix.
My motivation: I want computer systems to decentralize, minimizing central points of control. I don’t like walled gardens or bottlenecks. This has been a passion of mine for about twenty years, weaving in and out of my larger passion for using computers to solve social problems and making computers do new tricks. I call it out here, and focus on it more these days, because I suspect it’s where I have the best chance of making real contributions.
July 6, 2011 at 4:17 am
Sir,
I recently discovered “SemanticWeb features.
First because a friend of mine told me to try OWL for Terminology Fields Modelisation.
The pages of “semanticweb.org” does not provide links for contact as you do. I don’t want to imply you in strictly technical questions.
I am French, and beginning to buils a “System Sciences” Ontology, but in French of course. Meanwhile, I think that it can take place in the Ontologies that can be found ! Since it should be, like an “Ontology of Ontology itself”, language free, independant from the idiomatics of any country ! I a Member of the AFSCET, and if someone read some French at <>, myself being at <>, and currently in charge of the Task Group “Terminologie Systémique”. Maybe we could exchange for Theoretical views in System Sciences !
Best Regards. Eric Beaussart.