Time-oriented Universal Data Abstraction

The universal context of interest in Meta University is about organizing data in namespaces and temporal contexts. To define a namespace, a pre-defined set of symbols or vocabulary must be formulated, so that it becomes possible to use the symbol set to recursively represent the possibilities of data points. When it comes to representing temporal contexts. There are three generic types of relative temporal positioning, past, present, and future. We related each temporal positioning with one kind of data:

1. File for data in the Past: since we will subscribe to the immutability of past events given causal belief. To make it more concrete, PKC follows MediaWiki's convention to define a unique namespace, called File, for every file. In computer operating systems, all data sets, devices, and communicating channels are considered to be Files.
2. Page for data in the Present: In other words, pages are data interfacing with its consumer at the current stage. Similarly, PKC also utilizes MediaWiki's convention to define a namespace for all pages. In MediaWiki, page namespace is called: Main. We will follow this convention in PKC. In a web browser environment, all data are being presented through Page-based" representation.
3. Service for data into the Future: A set of computing services will be provisioned to continuously render new data into the future. As of 2022, MedaWiki has not had a namespace dedicated to Service, but it does define an explicit service APIs. To provide a consistent abstraction framework, MU-compliant PKCs will explicitly reserve a namespace, called Service namespace. This namespace will be defined in PKC's MediaWiki LocalSettings.php configuration file. We will likely use the metaNamespace as defined in MediaWiki.org, to explicitly reserve the namespace:Service. In network-connected computing systems, recently considered to be the computing cloud, all data sets, devices, and communicating channels are considered to be Services.