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Semantic Web: Web technology that allows data and information to work like the World Wide Web works. The Web has been a huge success is building, exploring and displaying knowledge in a bottom up, scaleable fashion. The Semantic Web allows data and information (outside of just raw text) to be linked, published, and created in a bottom up, scalable, modular fashion. Built using the same technologies (URIs, HTTP) that allow the web to work. Just like the Web is a graph that sits on top of the Internet, the Semantic Web sits on top of the Web.

Abductive Information System: Information system that allows the creation of hypothesis through the testing of the relatedness of unconnected facts. Would allow for the insight and creativity need in the qualitative fields to be preserved and enhanced through the use of digital tools.

Mixed Methods: New Methodologies that combine the ideas, models and methods of the qualitative and quantitate fields. This holistic approach would allow for a better more broad understanding of the open systems we wish to study.