ens.wiki

Welcome
to a human-readable affordance-centric reference on concepts (What?),
in their context¹ (Where?),
in order for everyone (Who?),
to support (learning and transformation) journeys (Why?),
in the era of digital interdependence (When?),
by capturing ideas alongside the content of "reference pdfs" (#pdf2wiki) (How?).

The tab sections explain in more detail what this means, and what distinguishes this wiki from others.

Each chapter of the dictionary covers a specific category of ens and entelechy.

• Natural order : the natural environment in which humankind dwells. Notable components such as time, land, climate, biotope and person are addressed as well.
• Material: those material resources that humankind exchanges with the natural environment.
• Social Order: institutional arrangements and socio-cultural actor networks that humankind has evolved to govern relationships and interactions, mutually and with the natural order.
• Produced Assets: non-financial and non-content assets that have come into existence as outputs from production processes. Produced assets consist of fixed assets, inventories and valuables.
• Content: non-tangible resources such as those that could be protected by Intellectual Property Rights, authored works (in the public domain), data, etc
• Techno Order: institutional arrangements and actor networks that are related to constellations and interactions involving complex produced assets, complex content collections, and multiple institutional arrangements.

While the ens (or entities, things) are covered in this dictionary, the entelechy proceeds by interactions in Biotope, Sociotope or Technotope:

• Physical, chemical and bio-physical interactions in the Natural Order. These are studied in dedicated sciences and are not specifically addressed in the wikiworx platform.
• Socio-technical interactions in the Social Order and in the Techno Order. Patterns for these interactions are included in the Interaction Dictionary.

Material resources (and biological entities) have life cycles during which they participate in the socio-economic interactions of human society[1]. An entity (ens) has a life time, during which it exists at each point in time. This is called the continuant property.

For material ens and money, this means they must be at a unique location. Their consumption is rivalrous. Content on the other hand may exist simultaneously at multiple places. Its consumption is non-rivalrous.

Each material entity has an ontogenic life cycle.

Entities that are mutually exchangeable or non-distinguishable have a collective typogenic life cycle: for instance all cars of type X produced by manufacturer Y.

A phylogenic life cycle refers to the collective existence of all entities with comparable functions, for instance all cars.

Resource management policies and procedures will involve the ontogeny, typogeny and phylogeny of entities.

The ontological characteristics will influence the options for such policies and procedures, especially for what concerns: (i) the use, depletion and discovery of resources; (ii) the stocks and flows of resources; and (iii) technologies required for handling the resource, recycling and substitution.

The fundamental properties of entities have implications for how to involve them in planning and change. Below table illustrates some differences that are elaborated in the related chapters.

• #election_lgu with example US congressional hashtags
• Techno Order and Technotope
• Social architecture
• the chapters listed under tab #pdf2wiki for interdependent journeys?

The wisdom conveyed by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) in The Elephant’s Child²:

I Keep six honest serving-men:
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Where and When
And How and Why and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.
…
But different folk have different views:
I know a person small—
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!
She sends 'em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes—
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!

Social architecture, explaining journeys and their interdependence in a context which is also aware of:

• ISIC, the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Rev.4
• Central Product Classification (CPC) Version 2.1
• Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG)
• The Declaration of Digital Interdependence - #digicoop
• the European Interoperability Framework and the European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA©)
• Competence goals for basic skills
• European e-Competence Framework 3.0. (CWA 16234), ICT professional profiles (CWA 16458) and typical Deliverables of ICT professional profiles.
• ArchiMate Framework
• EU Taxonomy

Other chapters: method & reference
Dictionary chapters: natural order material social order produced assets content techno order