https://wiki.gellish.net/ 2026-09-17T11:36:29+0200 https://wiki.gellish.net/ https://wiki.gellish.net/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2017-11-15T11:15:41+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/appendix_a_-_part_1a_list_of_types_of_relations_between_individual_things_continued?rev=1510740941&do=diff Appendix A - part 1A List of types of relations between individual things (continued) This list is a continuation of the Appendix A - part 1 List of types of relations between individual things, because this wiki has a maximum size of a page. UID of relation type Gellish phrase Definition 5.115 is objective of is a binary relation between individual things that indicates that the activity is performed as a means to advance towards the required state. text/html 2017-11-15T11:15:42+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/appendix_a_-_part_3a_list_of_types_of_relations_between_kinds_of_things_continued?rev=1510740942&do=diff Appendix A - part 3A List of types of relations between kinds of things (continued) This list is a continuation of the alphabetic list of types of relations between kinds of things. UID of relation type Gellish phrase Definition 4.714 can have a role as a text/html 2017-11-15T11:15:42+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/appendix_a_-_part_3b_list_of_types_of_relations_between_kinds_of_things_continued_2?rev=1510740942&do=diff Appendix A - part 3B List of types of relations between kinds of things (continued 2) This is the third part of an alphabetic list of Gellish phrases for types of relation between kinds of things. UID of relation type Gellish phrase Definition 4.918 text/html 2017-11-15T11:15:44+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/appendix_a_part_1_-_list_of_types_of_relations_between_individual_things?rev=1510740944&do=diff Appendix A - part 1: List of types of relations between individual things This is an alphabetic list of Gellish phrases that denote relation types between individual things. Each unique identifier (UID) of a relation type will appear twice in the list as each relation type is denoted by a Gellish phrase and by an inverse Gellish phrase. text/html 2017-11-15T11:15:43+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/automated_translation?rev=1510740943&do=diff Automated Translation 1. Language independent UID's In Gellish each object is represented by its own UID which is natural language independent, whereas each object is accompanied by a language dependent term to enable human interpretation in the natural language that is used. So, any object has only one UID, but it may have many 'names', being the terms, codes and synonyms by which it may be denoted in different languages. For example, UID 40153 is a language independent representation of a pa… text/html 2018-11-10T22:32:01+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/basic_principles?rev=1541885521&do=diff How to start writing Gellish Using Gellish can start in two ways: 1. Starting by expressing information in Gellish and 2. Starting by building software that can produce or read and interpret Gellish expressions. Understanding the first is required for starting the second. Therefore this section gives guidance on how to start making Gellish expressions. At the same time it describes a number of basic principles that are applied in Gellish. text/html 2017-11-15T11:15:43+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/change_management?rev=1510740943&do=diff Change Management 1. Unchangeable Fact identifiers Gellish supports the management of change process on the lowest level of atomic facts. Each atomic fact is denoted by a unique identifier (UID). A fact is only known in the Gellish environment if its fact UID is allocated. If there is no fact UID then we cannot say anything about it. A UID may not change and there may not be two UID’s that denote the same fact. A fact UID may also not be reused to denote another fact. text/html 2018-11-03T00:22:22+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/correct_gellish_english?rev=1541200942&do=diff Verification of Gellish Expressions 1. Rules for correct Gellish English A correct Gellish English collection of expressions is presented in a Gellish expression format table that satisfies a number of rules. A few very important ones are described below. Others are implemented in the Gellish Communicator software reference application that is available on GitHub. text/html 2018-10-02T15:00:59+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/data_modeling_and_database_design_in_gellish_english?rev=1538485259&do=diff How to write Gellish enabled software 1. Limitations of conventional database design and data exchange Conventional data modeling for any application domain typically results in a domain specific (conceptual, logical and physical) data model, also called a scheme. Such a data model documents the requirements and capabilities for storage of data in a database or data exchange messages. Thus it defines the semantic capabilities for expressions of ideas that can be stored in the database or excha… text/html 2017-11-15T11:15:43+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/detailed_views?rev=1510740943&do=diff Detailed views A product view can be used for selecting and viewing details about the components that appear in the view. This is done as follows: * The left hand mouse button selects the left hand object on a selected row and displays details about it. text/html 2018-08-06T23:32:17+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/development_of_gellish_enabled_software?rev=1533591137&do=diff Developing Gellish enabled software 1. The Communicator reference application A project on GitHub (www.github.com/AndriesSHP/Gellish) provides the source code of the Gellish Communicator software that demonstrates how Gellish expressions can be read, searched, interpreted, presented as well as generated. It demonstrates capabilities of the language, provides testing of correctness of expressions and can be used as a basis for retrieval of source code. It also provides examples of information m… text/html 2018-10-31T17:03:41+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/dictionary_extension?rev=1541001821&do=diff 1. Domain Dictionaries and Dictionary Development The general purpose Gellish Taxonomic Dictionary will never be complete. When it does not contain concepts and definitions that are required in a particular application domain it should be extended. Or when an organization wants to use its own terminology, the dictionary needs to be extended as well. And when individual things are defined as part of user data, then those individual concepts are also added to the dictionary. The Gellish language … text/html 2018-01-15T13:32:10+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/display_product_views?rev=1516019530&do=diff Display of product views The execution of a query results in a number of standard views of products (and processes). Each view allows for selection an object and asking for further details about the selected object. The product model view allows for the creation of new expressions. text/html 2018-11-04T00:00:43+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/document_management?rev=1541286043&do=diff Document management This section describes a way of managing and searching for documents using Gellish for storing auxiliary information about the documents and about the objects about which the documents provide information. This includes also management and descriptions of drawings and information that is present on various media such as text files, sound, video, etc. text/html 2018-02-02T22:51:57+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/executing_the_communicator?rev=1517608317&do=diff Executing the Communicator When the Communicator.py module is executed it automatically imports the Formal Language definition database Gel_net_db, when available, and it presents the Main Window as follows: [Main Window] The GUI language field can be used for switching the language of the user interface (the text/html 2018-10-31T00:22:55+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/facility_information_models?rev=1540941775&do=diff Integrated Information 1. Semantic networks A core concept of Gellish is the idea that any information that is expressed in Gellish forms a semantic network. A semantic network is a network in which the nodes (concepts, things) are linked to each other by (binary) relations (relationships), whereas those relations have classification relations with other nodes that represent kinds of relations. Such networks can be about individual things as well as about kinds of things or both. Each such a s… text/html 2018-11-12T16:23:58+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/formalized_languages?rev=1542036238&do=diff Formalization of natural languages The Gellish family of Formalized Languages use the vocabulary of natural languages, whereas its expressions are based on semantics (meaning) and a syntax (expression structure) that is universal and independent of any particular language. As a result Gellish expressions are close to natural languages. Therefore, they are also called Controlled Natural Languages (CNLs). The formalization is realized by building on two observations: 1) The recognition that conce… text/html 2017-11-15T11:15:45+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/gellish?rev=1510740945&do=diff Gellish Modeling Methodology The Gellish Modeling Methodology covers the following five area's: 1. Creation of Smart Domain Dictionaries The creation of a Smart Dictionary-Taxonomy implies the creation of Definition Models for concepts in a particular application domain in some natural language. text/html 2018-02-02T23:01:03+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/gellish_communicator?rev=1517608863&do=diff The Gellish Communicator software The Gellish Communicator software is a reference application for information that is expressed in any language of the Gellish family of formalized languages. Users can supply files with expressions of knowledge, products and processes as well as documents. Such files will be verified on correctness and consistency and the integrated database is available for searching and retrieval of information and knowledge. The software can also be used for consulting the d… text/html 2018-10-31T16:27:19+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/gellish_databases?rev=1540999639&do=diff 1. Universal Semantic Databases Gellish is a family of universally applicable languages. The standardized structure or syntax of Gellish expressions is system independent and universally applicable, thus allowing for the expression of any idea. This implies that Gellish enabled databases or data exchange messages (interfaces) are not application specific and thus they do not require the development of dedicated data models, nor dedicated database designs. This means that Gellish enables definin… text/html 2017-11-15T11:15:45+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/gellish_domain_dictionary?rev=1510740945&do=diff 1. Domain Dictionaries and Dictionary Extensions The general purpose technical Gellish English Dictionary may not include all the concepts and definitions that may be required in a particular application domain. Therefore, the Gellish language is extensible with additional vocabulary and grammar. The vocabulary can be extended by means of the definition of additional concepts and the grammar and semantics can be extended by means of the definition of additional relation types. Such additional d… text/html 2020-03-03T13:30:52+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/gellish_english_dictionary?rev=1583238652&do=diff The taxonomic dictionary 1. Some definitions What is a taxonomy? A taxonomy is a hierarchical network of concepts, in which each concept is related to one or more other concepts that are its supertype concepts. The top of the total hierarchy is the concept 'anything'. A domain taxonomy is a taxonomy for a particular domain that has one or more top level concepts that are subtype-concepts of anything. text/html 2019-09-13T16:15:46+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/gellish_expression_format?rev=1568384146&do=diff The Gellish Expression Format The Gellish Expression Format is a tabular format. It can be expressed as a Gellish file in various basic formats, such as CSV, JSON using the UTF-8 encoding standard. It can also be created in a spreadsheet formats, such as XLSX and then exported in CSV format. text/html 2018-10-31T16:15:39+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/gellish_messages?rev=1540998939&do=diff Gellish Messages Exchange of data between computer systems can be done basically in two ways: * Without meta data embedded in the message. * With meta data embedded in the message. A Gellish Message without embedded meta data means that the message (or file) only consists of one or more Gellish expressions tables, whereas the information about the intention of sending the file is not part of the file itself or it should be interpreted from the Gellish content. In that case such meta data… text/html 2018-10-27T15:02:50+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/gellish_modeling_method?rev=1540645370&do=diff Semantic Modeling The Gellish Semantic Modeling Methodology is a methodology for creating integrated information (models) that basically covers the modeling of the following area's: * A formal language definition, in the form of Gellish expressions that define a taxonomic dictionary and ontology of concepts. text/html 2020-03-03T13:33:05+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/gellish_nederlands?rev=1583238785&do=diff Gellish Nederlands (in Dutch) Gellish Nederlands is een variant van Gellish dat gebruik maakt van dezelfde relatietypen als Gellish Engels (Gellish Engels), dat wil zeggen relatietypen met dezelfde unieke identicatienummers (UID's), maar van relatietypen worden nu de Nederlandse 'namen' gebruikt. Bijvoorbeeld, relatietype 1190 heet in het Engels <is a part of> en datzelfde relatietype heet in het Nederlands <is een deel van>. Dus in Gellish Nederlands kun je bijvoorbeeld het volgend feit uitdru… text/html 2018-11-17T20:29:19+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/gellish_semantic_web?rev=1542482959&do=diff A Gellish Semantic Web 1. A language for the Semantic Web A real semantic web is a concept in which application software systems can exchange messages between each other whereas the messages can be interpreted by the receiving software, so that the software can act in a correct way. Usually XML and other tools of the text/html 2017-11-15T11:15:45+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/gellish_table?rev=1510740945&do=diff Gellish database text/html 2017-11-15T11:15:45+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/inserting_in_a_product_view?rev=1510740945&do=diff Inserting in a product view There are various options for inserting expressions in a product view. * Classification of an individual object Classification of an individual object A product view displays the model of an individual object and its classifier(s). The model includes among others components (parts) of the individual object (if present) and their classifiers and possibly parts of parts (if present) and their classifiers. text/html 2018-01-02T18:32:19+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/installing_the_communicator?rev=1514914339&do=diff Installation Source code and data files The source of the Gellish Communicator software can be downloaded from GitHub. The program is written in Python 3.6 and thus its execution requires the installation of Python 3.6 or later. The Bootstrapping.py file specifies a path to a directory where from which data will be read and another directory where output files will be stored. Both paths may be changed as required. The data files should be stored in the directories that are specified in Bootstr… text/html 2018-11-02T21:25:52+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/knowledge_modeling_in_gellish?rev=1541190352&do=diff Knowledge modeling 1. Categories of knowledge With knowledge modeling we mean the modeling of possibilities for kinds of things, in other words about what can be the case. There are other categories of knowledge. For example knowledge about the state of affairs of individual things (which is the case), which we discussed under text/html 2018-11-02T21:31:38+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/modeling_of_activities_and_processes?rev=1541190698&do=diff Modeling of occurrences, activities, processes and events An occurrence is in its widest sense anything that happens. This includes human activities, but also physical and (bio)chemical processes, control processes, events and physical phenomena. Processes includes both discrete processes and continuous processes. A discrete process consists of a sequence of discrete process steps or actions. Examples of discrete processes are business processes in which various persons provide a contribution i… text/html 2018-10-28T00:55:37+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/outline_of_gellish?rev=1540680937&do=diff Outline of Gellish The Gellish semantic modeling methodology is based on an integrated information architecture, which means that it covers the integration of * a taxonomy and ontology that contains a definition of the Gellish formal language with its syntax and semantics about concepts and kinds of relations and expressions text/html 2018-11-02T22:44:37+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/product_modeling?rev=1541195077&do=diff Product modeling Product modeling is the process of expressing information about an individual product and should be done conform a sound methodology. The term 'product' in this context is used in its widest sense and is thus equivalent to the term 'physical object'. The result of product modeling will be a collection of expressions about one or more 'products', ranging from simple components to complicated assemblies and systems and facilities. When a collection of expressions is about one pro… text/html 2017-11-15T11:15:46+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/proper_definition_of_a_concept?rev=1510740946&do=diff Rules for proper definitions text/html 2020-03-11T14:06:42+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/querying_a_gellish_english_database?rev=1583932002&do=diff Querying databases 1. Queries, questions and dialogues Queries for conventional databases are usually expressed in a special query language, such as SQL. Gellish does not require a special query language, because queries can be expressed in Gellish in the same way as expressing ordinary statements. In natural languages there is no big difference between the structure of a sentence that expresses a question and a sentence that expresses a statement. That same principle is applied in Gellish. … text/html 2018-11-03T00:01:48+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/requirements_models?rev=1541199708&do=diff Requirements Modeling 1. Requirements for kinds of things This section deals with the expression of requirements that are applicable for kinds of things. The specification of requirements about individual things are discussed in the section about product modeling and text/html 2018-10-31T17:18:04+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/rules_for_names_of_concepts?rev=1541002684&do=diff Rules for names of concepts New concepts that are formally included in the Gellish language and thus are added to the Gellish Dictionary shall have one or more names and synonyms, abbreviations or codes that satisfy the rules below. 1. Uniqueness context Names, abbreviations and codes need not be generally unique within Gellish. So, homonyms are allowed, provided that the names, abbreviations or codes are unique within a particular explicitly specified text/html 2020-03-03T13:36:16+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/sidebar?rev=1583238976&do=diff Go to www.gellish.net Table of content: * Why Gellish * Formalized languages * Outline of Gellish * How to start writing Gellish * The Semantic Modeling Methodology * The Taxonomic Dictionary * Integrated Information Models, Building Information Models (BIM), etc. * Product Modeling * Modeling of activities and processes * Document management * Knowledge modeling * Requirements modeling * Product type modeling * Verification of Gellish expression… text/html 2018-11-03T00:09:36+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/standard_specification_models?rev=1541200176&do=diff Modeling of product types 1. Universal search and data integration Product types are manufacturer specific subtypes of general concepts. Therefore they are also called manufacturers models or brands. Designs of large facilities and specialized equipment are typically once-of designs. This means that a model is made of an imaginary individual thing and that imaginary product is realized by making a materialized real object that corresponds with the design. When series of products of the same ki… text/html 2018-12-03T12:28:19+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/start?rev=1543836499&do=diff Why Gellish Information that is expressed in a Gellish formal language is computer interpretable and application system independent. It enables data exchange, data storage, data integration and systems interoperability without the need for data model harmonization or data conversion. text/html 2017-11-15T11:15:47+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.gellish.net/verification_of_designs?rev=1510740947&do=diff Verification of designs Verification of a design as well as verification of a fabricated real object is enabled by a formal (computer interpretable) specification of requirements provided that the design or the observed real objectdata are also expressed in Gellish. In other words, when requirements are expressed according to the Gellish Modeling Method and the delivered information that intents to satisfy those requirements is delivered also according to the Gellish Modeling Method, then that …