escription in order to motivate the design of the AtomSpace. From that perspective, the most important properties of Atoms are: • Every Atom has an AtomHandle, which is a universal ID across a CogPrime deployment (possibly involving thousands of networked machines). The AtomHandles are the keys for acessi

ature of the mapping intended. The examples include a lot of explanatory discussion as well. Note that, in these examples, [14 denotes an Atom with AtomHandle n. All Atoms have Han- dles, but Handles are only denoted in cases where this seems useful. (In the XML representation used in the current OpenCogPr