New Conceptual Structures for the Digital Environment: From KOS to the Semantic Interconnection

Primitive thinking forms affected the organization of knowledge, and at a later date writing also affected organization. Currently, the web requires new forms of learning and knowledge; with the globalization of information, connectivity and virtuality have a bearing on human thought. Digital thinking is shaping our reality and its organizational form. Natural memory, considered to be a process that requires the structure of natural language and human capabilities, is interwoven with a subject and a conscience; memory preserved through writing required other tools to assist it, and classifications, cataloguing, organization or other KOS were created. The new tool for recovering digital memory is the semantic web. This points to information’s future on the Internet and seems to approach the utopia of global, organized information and attempts to give the website greater significance. The Web 3.0 incorporates a proliferation of languages, concepts and tools that are difficult to govern and are created by users. The semantic web seems to be a natural evolution of the participative web in which we find ourselves, and if an effective combination is achieved between the inclusion of semantic content in web pages and the use of artificial intelligence it will be a revolution; semantic codification will be a fact when it is totally automated. Based on this, a collective digital intelligence is being constituted. We find ourselves before intelligent multitudes with broad access to enormous amounts of information. The intelligent multitude emerges when technologies interconnect. In this global interconnection of semantic information an exponential pattern of technological growth can take place. Determination of Information Media In the postmodern era, the advent of the Internet has brought several revolutions in several different contexts: media, scientific, epistemic and organizational. The new digital materiality transforms science, its contents, and its organizational forms. Information media and writing formats have always affected the way information and knowledge are organized, shaping three fundamental ages in the history of Humanity, the oral period, the written period and the digital period. In the oral period, within the oral or tribal societies, totemic societies, pre-literate, and mythic, magic was a form of relation, being societies ruled basically by cosmology and the phenomenology of nature. It is in these societies that the first ideas of social structuring and organization were developed. The social categories in these structures determined the first categories of inclusion and subordination. And, since society is a model in which classificatory thinking works and is developed into multiple aspects, this classificatory thinking was translated into all the categories of knowledge. The written age was determined by the appearance of the written alphabet and the development of the polis, which meant a confrontation with the tribe. Writing was one of the fundamental pillars and made civilization possible. The biggest difference between civilization and the most primitive forms of human society then lay on the written language, and writing led to the necessity of organization of all the written knowledge, something also fundamental in the development of humanity as well as the transmission of knowledge and information. In a third point, the digital era, with the advent of the digital information media including text, images and sound, the material aspect was also a determining factor in the development of knowledge and information organization. The digital environment increased the necessity of organizing huge amount of information that was generated. Writing, the printing press, and digital information have also brought new ways of