[seqfan] Re: Can we create a workable taxonomy for classifying all the various kinds of sequences in the OEIS?

[Marc LeBrun]

For this work there's absolutely no need to extend the OEIS itself, because a reference like https://oeis.org/A123456 <https://oeis.org/A123456> is a perfectly good URI.
You can erect a classic "semantic web" using these references (say with OWL et al) as a completely external RESTful resource (or whatever).
Moreover, a multitude of such metadata services could happily coexist, even cross-link, without requiring any impact on the OEIS.
Building such commentaries upon, rather than within, the OEIS could be a bounteous source of interesting collaborative projects.
Let a thousand ontologies bloom!

> On Apr 9, 2018, at 11:06 AM, M. F. Hasler <seqfan at hasler.fr> wrote:
> 
> I think that such a taxonomy could be realized by allowing arbitrary custom
> keywords
> (maybe slightly moderated by Assoc.Editors), which would work like
> mediawiki's "Categories",
> and this could be an easy and efficient way to index, classify, and
> cross-reference related sequences.
> See oeis.org/wiki/User:M._F._Hasler/Categories for more details.
> 
> Regards,
> MH
> 
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Wayne VanWeerthuizen wrote:
> 
>> On 4/7/2018 1:17 PM, Georg.Fischer wrote:
>>> But I think it is totally impossible to *manually* introduce any
>> additional
>>> classification of the OEIS sequences (because of their huge number).
>> 
>> Again, I did not intend to suggest we classify every sequence. I was
>> asking about a consistent nomenclature for simply talking about the
>> different general ways sequences are generated. It's the list itself of
>> possible categories that interests me, and not necessarily actually having
>> every specific sequence categorized and tagged. And I'm not convinced that
>> the huge number of sequences implies a huge number of meta-rules for
>> sequence generation. I still expect a list of meta-rules to be relatively
>> short, given the vast majority of OEIS sequences appear to be generated by
>> essentially quite similar procedures. Again, one of my examples was that
>> the OEIS already has hundreds, maybe even thousands of, "least k such
>> that..." sequences. What other kinds of procedures are akin to this?
>> 
> 
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