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classification emerges from usage

• Objects are classified solely through ordinary use of the system. A separate classification process, involving topic authorities is not required.
• Systematic distinction between classfier and classified object does not pertain. e.g. mammal / Andrew Henderson. Tags are  classified only according to their proximity to other tags.

objective data, subjective information

• A single item of data can communicate personalised information to different individual recipients. Each participant, having different information available, generally has a unique perspective on any item of interest.
• Wherever Akinity data is communicated, the sender's interpretation may be incorporated into a new generation of a previously received tag or raw data.

heterogeneity

• Any pre-existing schema such as natural languages and newly emerging schemas may be assimilated into Akinity either indirectly through linking or directly through synthesis.
• As a currency does for goods exchange, so Akinity brings fungibility to information exchange between heterogeneous schemas.

data distribution

• Data is distributed unevenly and this pattern allows semantics to emerge.
• Distribution patterns change over time. Therefore the system evolves.
• There is no central locus of complete information.

probabilistic

• The system does not deliver absolute certainties, but for typical use-cases confidence can be extremely high.

a system of tags

• Explicitly relates only the cTags
• Implicitly also relates the tagged items

not a graph

• Akinity's model is more like physical 3-D space than a logical network of nodes and edges. Any object in space has an intrinsic location that bestows it with a quantifiable distance from every other known object, without necessary recourse to some extrinsic maping table. This is also true for Akinity .

non-arbitrary data values

• Values may only be assigned by the algorithms.
• Values are binary. Nevertheless, they may be translated to text through an encoding such as Base64 or Base16

steganograpy

• Interpretation in Akinity is an application of exformation.
• The system is tolerant of asymmetric information in an exchange. Information may be passed through an unknowing subject to a third-party