Pulses: Decentralized Smooth Semantization of Atomic Historical Knowledge

1. Abstract

This paper presents the prototype of a platform aimed at curating simple open bricks for historical knowledge, shaped as short texts. These historical bricks, named “Pulses,” are meant to be based on no prefixed ontology, but collectively negotiated conventions and reformatting by bots. The Pulses curation platform that can be interpreted as hybridisation between some characteristics of Twitter and Wikipedia, organises a collective process of “smooth semantization” in which pulses are progressively rewritten to become more machine readable. The article reports on the principle and implementation of this system conducted in the last two years.

Frédéric Kaplan (frederic.kaplan@epfl.ch), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Raphael Barman , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Mathieu Clavel , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Albane Descombres , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Hakim Invernizzi , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Marion Kramer , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Laurene Puerto , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Santiago Saint-supery , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland and Cedric Viaccoz , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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