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From: Dr. Lobel
Subject: An ontology for identity
Date: 10 Nisan 5783
Thank you, R. Feldman.
I want to address R. Nachmani's concern directly. He distinguishes between personal expression and institutional knowledge. But these are not mutually exclusive.
Consider: a person writes a Jew Code block expressing their identity. This is personal. The block is then submitted to a service, perhaps this Let's Brit you have been discussing. The service stores the block. Now there are many blocks. Patterns emerge.
With an ontology, we could query these patterns. What percentage of self-identified Orthodox Jews report keeping kosher at level K+ or higher? How does denominational affiliation correlate with Hebrew literacy? These are research questions that aggregated identity data could answer.
The ontology enables this. The flat format does not.
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