Started: June 29, 2013 Last Edit: May 27 2015 Some time ago I watched a webcast by Dan Gordon about the 'library everywhere'. The basic idea was that researchers need wide 'ubiquirous' real time access to many libraries/archives to work effectively. I believe this is only a small part of the story as (in my opinion) librarise are only a small part of current available sources of information and there are many others on the horizon. In this note I make the following proposal. Let's build a stable internet accessable 'model of history'. What is a 'model of history'? It is a repository of historical information in a computer (and human) accessible form. It should contain the 'facts' of history. For example, a information about US presidents. Really the world only needs one list of presidents and their properties (not one for every American history textbook ever written). This data repository will distinguish between 'immortal' and 'ephermeral' information. The fact the 'George Wasington' was the first president of the 'United States' is true now and forever - thus 'immortal'. The fact that 'George Washington' was a good president might be questionable - so it is ephemeral, ie, a statement of opinion by someone at a particular time. It can be 'made' immortal by adding more info, eg '"John Reporter' wrote on Sept 1, 1952 in the NYT page 12 that "George Washington was a good president." is immortal. ie enough citation always makes epherimal data immortal. A goal of our 'model of history' should be to concentrate on immortal data. What should be in the model? ---------------------------- people places events ... How might we describe these? ---------------------------- Use IBML and a madeler with an 'event engine'. What is an event engine? ------------------------ An event engine is a tool for turning a 'static' description of a (possible) events into a running simulation of those events. eg IBUKI Event manager. Can events be asyncronous and happen simultaneously - yes. This 'database' should be accessible as a web service. It could be organized and distributed like the 'semantic web' but RDF triples are (in my opinion) not useful for this task (see [RDF-OUT]). The important point is that it is technologically possible to have ONE (possibly mirrored for safty and/or efficiency - not semantics) copy of the data. This copy could be crowd sourced but should likely also be crowd curated (sort of like wikopedia). IBUKI has begun building such a service called 'The-History-Vault'. Corrently we are looking at two areas of histort American History Stuart Endland This kind of modeling system is not limited to history. Any area of interest from literature (eg Milton) to sports (San Francisco Giants) might be modeled. Access to these models represent a new genra of web site and open the possibility of a new kind of collaborative publication that, if it gained academic respectability, might be considere on a par with the usual kind of academic publication.