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Making a map of human knowledge
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For the last two years I've been thinking about a new website... where people will be able to find useful books, articles, tutorials, films, etc. All of this will be made into a map - a map of human knowledge. It will be searchable.

One of my motivations behind this is that there are so many nice and useful things out there - and we're not aware of most of them. From all the books in the world, which are the ones that can help you with what you are doing? No matter what you have set out to accomplish - writing, creating music, education, programming, drawing, science, parenting, making more money, etc., surely there are many valuable resources that you can greatly benefit from. So, it would be pretty cool if they could show up to you after doing a simple search in a website, instead of taking years to find.

So, a first version of this website is now live: 

https://www.knowledgemap.me/
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Would be happy to hear your thoughts.
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@bigtakosensei ·
This sounds like a cool idea. How can readers submit recommendations to the site?
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@borislavzlatanov ·
Glad to hear you like it. :) 

I'm hoping to soon implement a page where people will be able to enter useful Resources that they've come across. Also coming is the ability for people to vote on Resources that have already been entered by others.
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@renzoarg ·
I call it Wikipedia, before Internet: Encyclopedia Britannica
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@borislavzlatanov ·
I am not sure how it compares to Encyclopedia Britannica... Hopefully the website will be a definite improvement over earlier systems of organizing knowledge.
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@renzoarg ·
How can you be "not sure", If you say it yourself?
<blockquote>All of this will be made into a map - a map of human knowledge. It will be searchable.</blockquote>
I talked about knowledge organization a long time ago in <a href="https://steemit.com/science/@renzoarg/lie-to-me-and-call-me-wiki-knowledge-evolution">Lie to me and call me wiki! - Knowledge evolution. - steemit</a><br />
It'd be nice to see a third option, if it is a somewhat different method.
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@transhuman ·
How does this compare to Wikipedia?
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@borislavzlatanov ·
Wikipedia has actual content. While https://www.knowledgemap.me/ only points to actual content (through URLs) and makes it more discoverable and better organized. It has metadata (titles, descriptions, tags, star ratings, etc.), so it's more like a search directory. Searches can be based on the metadata fields, for example you can search by tags, by format, by star rating, etc.

So my website seems more similar to search engines. For example, someone interested in cooking can search for the tags "cooking" or "recipes" or "food" or similar, and useful results (books, videos, articles, tutorials, etc.) will show up, ordered by their star rating. The process is analogous for any other field of knowledge. And, very importantly, the website is not limited to any particular areas, but rather aims to contain useful resources from all kinds of areas. This will allow much more proper mapping of knowledge and transcending the usual thinking in terms of separate categories/domains of knowledge (biology, chemistry, engineering, cooking, etc.), which are really all related. 

As a model, I think this has many advantages over regular search engines like google.com because those rely on automatic bots to spider through the Internet and collect information about websites, while in the case of https://www.knowledgemap.me/ it is people who will be entering the data and voting for the Resources. Ratings given by real people will be much superior to the machine algorithms currently used to determine which search results should go on top. And I think that people will have incentive to enter the data and vote (the model is already demonstrated by Wikipedia, StackOverflow and others) because they will see the usefulness of the platform and because it is open - the data entered is available and easily accessible to anyone at all times.
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@renzoarg ·
It's been nearly 10 years since google stopped using spider crawling as indexing method, today it uses an AI that gives relevance to the results depending on the users' selection of results.
The only evident different I see is that:
<blockquote>people will have incentive to enter the data and vote</blockquote>
Giving place to some nice trolling :p (as wikipedia demostrated here <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalism_on_Wikipedia" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalism_on_Wikipedia</a>)
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