Description list

Aggregator [dfn]

A website that makes summaries of web content based on a certain theme or function.
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Annotation [dfn]

The process of adding notes to a text to incorporate additional information.
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Associative indexing [dfn]

Allowing data to be found based on an arbitrary direct relationship with other data.
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Barabási–Albert model [dfn]

A mathematical model to generate a random network with hubs.
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Clique [dfn]

Mathematical term for a cluster.
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Cluster [dfn]

A term from graph theory, referring to a group of nodes in which every node knows (nearly) every other node.
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Connected graph [dfn]

A graph in which a path exists between any two random chosen nodes.
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Erdős-Rényi model [dfn]

A mathematical model to generate a network with random links between nodes.
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Graph [dfn]

Mathematical term for a web: A set of objects that are somehow connected.
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HTML, HyperText Markup Language [dfn]

The language used to write web pages.
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Hub [dfn]

A term from graph theory, referring to a node with significantly more links than other nodes in the network (think of central railway stations for example).
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Pieces of selectable digital text through which the user can gain direct access to other digital text (nowadays applicable to all kinds of media such as graphs, pictures, video).
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Hypertext [dfn]

Digital text that contains hyperlinks.
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Markup [dfn]

Annotation of digital text.
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Markup language [dfn]

A set of rules that describe the type of annotation that is used in a document to facilitate cooperation between multiple parties/machines.
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Power law [dfn]

Mathematical relationship in which a relative change of one quantity raised to a certain power gives the relative change in the other quantity (p1/p2) = (q1/q2)^constant.
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Preferential attachment [dfn]

A term from graph theory, in which a link to a node is not made at random but based on a certain trend.
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Scale-free network [dfn]

A scale-free network is a network whose distribution of links per node looks equal regardless of zoom level.
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Six degrees of separation [dfn]

The idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other.
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Small-world network [dfn]

A network that contains many clusters and still exhibits low average path length.
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Watts-Strogatz model [dfn]

A mathematical model to generate a network with high clustering coefficient and low average path length.
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World Wide Web [dfn]

A collection of data accessible on the Internet that is interconnected by hyperlinks.
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