Prospective EcoSocial Ontology

Proposal

The Prospective Eco-Social Ontology (PESO) is an approach toward interoperable taxonomic systems for navigation and concatenation of diverse content libraries and topical threads in the realm of "common good" environmental and cultural regeneration work. The idea sprouted from designs for the BrowsEarth content aggregation platform.

The present objective is to evolve a composable lexicon of visual tags (icons) which represent near-universal qualities of positive human expression, as applicable to the What, How, and Why dimensions of an otology of experiential narrative. Each of these dimensions maps out as a taxonomic tree, a reference category structure which attempts to intuitively, conveniently, discreetly, and completely arrange the consensus set of relevant icons to several descending levels of nested depth.

The PESO taxonomies are not empirical or definitive, but rather emergent and configurable as open source architectural blueprints, with shared components and design cues creating a stylistic as well as semantic linkage across implementations. The visual vocabulary of tag icons (to which different verbal and lingual labels can easily be attached in various use-cases) may be selectively restructured for customized uses without affecting the essential cross-platform link between content per each common tag.

The tag assignment metadata is stored and served from the assigning CMS or application database, with the possibility for weighted interpolation to achieve tailored collective-intelligence interpretations.

It will be possible to log usage statistics per taxon/meme, and also to create a register for emerging "folksonomic" definitions which may be appended to the reference taxonomies when well established in application.