Do you see what I mean?

Visualizers, like logicians, have long been concerned with meaning. Generalizing from MacEachren's overview of cartography, visualizers have to think about how people extract meaning from pictures (psychophysics), what people understand from a picture (cognition), how pictures are imbued with meaning (semiotics), and how in some cases that meaning arises within a social and/or cultural context. If we think of the communication acts carried out in the visualization process further levels of meaning are suggested. Visualization begins when someone has data that they wish to explore and interpret; the data are encoded as input to a visualization system, which may in its turn interact with other systems to produce a representation. This is communicated back to the user(s), who have to assess this against their goals and knowledge, possibly leading to further cycles of activity. Each phase of this process involves communication between two parties. For this to succeed, those parties must share a common language with an agreed meaning. We offer the following three steps, in increasing order of formality: terminology (jargon), taxonomy (vocabulary), and ontology. Our argument in this article is that it's time to begin synthesizing the fragments and views into a level 3 model, an ontology of visualization. We also address why this should happen, what is already in place, how such an ontology might be constructed, and why now

Revitalisasi Peran Pesantren dalam Pengembangan Sumber Daya Umat di Era Globalisasi dan Modernisasi

The latest UNDP report of Indonesia HDI value can be made as an indicator to see quality of Indonesian human resources. Indonesia ranks 111 out of 177 countries in the index, lower than Philippines since 90 persen of the 238 million citizens are muslim, the HDI value shows that Indonesia islamic human resources (Sumberdaya umat Islam) is still low. We have no choice but to improve it in order to get stategic role in the global era. Revitalizing islamic educational institution is one way of improving it. Pesantren must not keep silen in this “runway world” pesantren should respond wisely every singel global changing. The responsibility of pesantren is get ting harder and harder: it shoul be a center of moral defence on the one hand, and has to create religious and educated society, on the other hand. Therefore, it is relevant to condiser the edea of link and match as an educational system of pesantren, and also to balance the mastery of kitab kuning and kitab putih, relegious knowledge and science technology. The mastery of kitab kuning should be kept as a trade mark of pesantren, but on the same time pesantren has to support and direct santries in mastery of science technology which generally found in the kitab putih