This glossary gives a brief description of the terms used in Project Eternal. For any given term, a link to the defining instance is provided as well as an external link to more detailed information. To quickly search for a term, simply use "CTRL-F".
A website that makes summaries of web content based on a certain theme or function.
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The process of adding notes to a text to incorporate additional information.
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Allowing data to be found based on an arbitrary direct relationship with other data.
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A mathematical model to generate a random network with hubs.
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A term from graph theory, referring to a group of nodes in which every node knows (nearly) every other node.
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A graph in which a path exists between any two random chosen nodes.
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A mathematical model to generate a network with random links between nodes.
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Mathematical term for a web: A set of objects that are somehow connected.
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The language used to write web pages.
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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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Digital text that contains hyperlinks.
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Annotation of digital text.
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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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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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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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A scale-free network is a network whose distribution of links per node looks equal regardless of zoom level.
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The idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other.
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A network that contains many clusters and still exhibits low average path length.
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A mathematical model to generate a network with high clustering coefficient and low average path length.
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A collection of data accessible on the Internet that is interconnected by hyperlinks.
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