Open AccessA Diagrammatic Notation for Visualizing Epistemic Entities and Relations
Author(s) -
Kye Palider,
Paul Patton,
Hakob Barseghyan,
Julia Da Silva,
Torin Doppelt,
Nichole Levesley,
Jessica Rapson,
Ameer Sarwar,
Jamie Shaw,
Min Han,
Amna Zulfiqar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
scientonomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2560-9076
pISSN - 2560-9068
DOI - 10.33137/js.v4i0.37904
Subject(s) - diagrammatic reasoning , notation , ontology , construct (python library) , computer science , epistemology , visualization , linguistics , programming language , artificial intelligence , philosophy
This paper presents a diagrammatic notation for visualizing epistemic entities and relations. The notation was created during the Visualizing Worldviews project funded by the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute and has been further developed by the scholars participating in the university’s Research Opportunity Program. Since any systematic diagrammatic notation should be based on a solid ontology of the respective domain, we first outline the current state of the scientonomic ontology. We then proceed to providing diagrammatic tools for visualizing the epistemic entities and relations of this ontology. These basic diagramming techniques allow us to construct diagrams of various types for both synchronic and diachronic visualizations. The paper concludes by highlighting some future research directions. As the notation presented here is de facto accepted and used in scientonomy, the paper suggests no modifications.