web space

Web Space

For casual readers, the term web space in Thinking Space could be

harmlessly understood as personal owned web site such as a space for a

homepage. Although this is an imprecise expression of this term, it

should not hurt casual reading to most of the posts in Thinking Space.

I will explicitly emphasize the meaning of this term if the precise

understanding of web space is particularly required in a post.

(You do not need to read beyond this point if you are doing just

casual reading.)

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The formal understanding of this term in Thinking Space is based on

the view of web evolution. The last installment in the series of "a

view of web evolution" tells the formal definition of this term.

A web space is a personified composition of web resources.

First, a web space is a composition of web resources. A web space is

not a space of pre-allocated memory, and nor is it an assigned virtual

space somewhere on the Web. In contrast, a web space refers to a

particular collection of web resources that are well organized under

certain discipline.

Second, a web space is personified. By personified, the resources at a

web space are subjectively assigned by the owner of the web space.

Thus, these assignments are reflection of consciousness of the owner.

In a whole, a subjectively arranged composition of web resources

represents a disciplined and self-complete subset of consciousness of

the owner. By disciplined, there are reasonable logics existed in this

composition. By self-complete, this composition fully expresses a

fact, though the expression might be subjective. We can thus personify

such a composition to be a virtual person. This is the ultimate

understanding of a web space.

There are several derivations based on this understanding of web

space.

(1) We can watch a person. Similarly, we can read a web space.

(2) We can tell a person more facts. Similarly, we can write to a web

space.

(3) We can educate a person meanings of the facts he knows. Similarly,

we can semantically annotate content in a web space and apply logic

reasoner in this web space. By this way, we also educate a web space

as if it is a virtual person.

Can we extend this list? Yes, please, try it by yourself.

This post is part of the collection of terminology, which explains

several heavily repeated terms in Thinking Space.