Outline of Knowledge Database {Outline of Knowledge Database} (OK) (OKD).
date
2025.0814
database purpose
Outline of Knowledge contains all important knowledge and ideas in outline format.
theme
Scientifically and humanistically educated people share important knowledge and concepts, which have a hierarchy.
organization
Database records explain facts and concepts and identify originators or contributors. For opinions and speculations, records state facts and reasoning for and against speculations, identify originators, and indicate truth probabilities.
audience
Outline of Knowledge is for the general reader.
usage
You can search database entries by category, topic, name, creative work, location, and date. After reading entries, compare with Internet, dictionary, encyclopedia, or textbook information, to see if the two sources agree.
format
Outline of Knowledge is in Microsoft Word text-only format and uses ANSI/ASCII characters. (Outline of Knowledge does not use other Unicode characters.) Outline of Knowledge is readable with any text processor that can hold eleven-megabyte documents.
Outline of Knowledge has no text formatting. It has no highlighted, bold, italic, underlined, strikethrough, or formatted characters. It has no special fonts. It has one font color and one font size. It has no superscripts or subscripts. It has no special character spacing. It has no tabs and no text indentations. It has no numbered or bulleted lists and no tables. It has no paragraph, page, or document formats. It has no graphics and no borders or shading.
schedule
Outline of Knowledge is a draft. Updates typically occur four times a year.
page number
Outline of Knowledge has approximately 3000 pages, with 57 lines per page and 80 characters per line, in Courier New 10-point type.
author
The author received his Economics B.S. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology [1968] and his Biochemistry Ph.D. degree from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [1973], with post-doctoral study at University of California, San Diego [1974 to 1976]. He taught at Damavand College in Tehran, Iran [until 1979], at College of Notre Dame in Belmont, California [until 1984], and at two high schools [1984 to 1986]. Subjects taught were mathematics, history, economics, sociology, biology, chemistry, and physics. For twenty-two years [1986 to 2005], he wrote biotechnology and bioinformatics books and articles. He was a GenBank project manager [1990 to 1992] and National Center for Biotechnology Information principal investigator [1992 to 1995]. He authored the NASITE database of structural and functional nucleic-acid regions [1992] and the Vector Sequence Database of cloning vectors [1995]. He has compiled the Consciousness Bibliography of 10,000 books and articles, with full journal and author names, available in text and PDF file formats at http://www.outline-of-knowledge.info/Consciousness_Bibliography/index.html [2006 to 2011].
history
In 1971 and 1972, the author summarized, in handwriting, 20 college textbooks and a collegiate dictionary, resulting in 1000 pages. From 1975 to 1976, author and professional typists typed all 1000 pages. From 1972 to 2011 and from web sites from 2005 to 2011, author added information from Scientific American, newspapers, histories, and science books. Starting in 1983, author added information and ideas specifically about consciousness. From 1993 to 1994, author typed, or optically character read and edited, all pages into computer text files, totaling five megabytes and 2000 pages. In 1999, author merged all text files into one six-megabyte text file (6all.txt). In 2000, author put text file into database format, with eight record fields. In 2002, author checked field information and standardized field formats. In 2004, author put entries about consciousness into a new section. In 2004 and 2005, author added references to entries and compiled bibliography (Consciousness Bibliography.txt). In 2005, author added beginning database-description section. From 2005, author developed website, contents, glossary, and index tools (allprocedures.xls). In December 2005, author published www.outline-of-knowledge.info web site. From 2006, author wrote separate database-entry graphics (drawings.doc). In 2007, author cross-checked bibliography. In 2007, author made conversion tools to generate a Word file (OKD.doc), from which to make a PDF file (OKD.pdf). In early 2007, author checked that glossary entries have separate database entries and line headers have index entries. In summer 2007, author checked that header fields are unique. In summer 2007, author put birth and death years for people born after 1200 and before 1950 in history fields. In fall 2007, author checked all spelling and grammar using Microsoft Spelling and Grammar. In 2008, author updated the bibliography to have more than 10,000 entries, have full names and journal titles, have indices, have consistent years and names, and have foreign language titles if original language was not English.
website
Domain name is outline-of-knowledge.info. Web site does not use CGI tools, such as guestbook, hit counter, or message board. Web site does not allow FTP or have FTP tools. Web site does not have databases. Web site does not have password protection. Web site does not use encryption.
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Date Modified: 2025.0814