Hi Jörg, it is great to hear you like my work, which indeed shares many ideas with DeepaMehta. My personal focus is on developing a good, intuitive user interface, which I consider the essence of the problem. I would be happy to meet some day to exchange ideas and perhaps get a demo of the Trailblazer feature you mention.
Have a look at webmemex.org <http://webmemex.org/> for a demo of the current state of the interface; it is not yet practically usable though. Source is found here <https://github.com/rwweb/webmemex>. By the way, I am not focussing on IPFS or distributed storage at the moment (it is only mentioned as an example), but rather intend to promote decentralisation by making it easy to self-host one's software and data. Kind regards, Gerben On 10.07.2016 04:40, Jörg Richter wrote: > Hi DeepaMehta aficionados, > > thank you very much, Juergen, for pointing us to the I Annotate conference > and to Gerben's work! > Through Gerben's work I discovered IPFS, which gave me a real good kick :-) > And I see strong connections between DM and the tool Gerben proposes. > > IPFS is the InterPlanetary File System. The idea is to logically connect all > computing devices to one global distributed file system. The distribution > aspect works like BitTorrent. The versioning and addressing > (content-addressing SHA-1 checksums) aspects works like Git. IPFS can be seen > as one global BitTorrent swarm which moves objects within one global Git > repository. For establishing both, global name spaces, and chains of trust > IPFS utilizes Self-Certified Filesystems (SFS). IPFS is a synthesis of proven > peer-to-peer techniques and is backed by in-depth research. > https://ipfs.io > > Regarding DM, IPFS possibly might be the long-seeked for infrastructure > component for what DM wants finally to be: a decentralized peer-to-peer > system where local user groups could align their data and ontologies when > they want to. Another aspect would be working offline and syncing with the > peer group once online. In terms of IPFS this would introduce a commit > semantic to DM. A commit could be e.g. on a per-workspace basis. On commit DM > would produce a file representation of the workspace state and store it in > the IPFS. > > Set IPFS aside, I see a strong connection between DM and the tool Gerben > proposes in his presentation. His tool, vaguely coined "WebMemex", would be > both at the same time, a browser, and an information management tool. > WebMemex would remember the pages you're visiting while being situated in a > certain context (e.g. while attending a multi-day conference), allowing you > to annotate them, and displaying this all together in a mind map-like > fashion. At the moment WebMemex exists in a very early state. > > WebMemex is indeed very close to what DM realizes already. In DM the web > browsing part comes in form of the dm4-webbrowser module (part of the DM > Standard Distribution). In that module there is an experimental feature > called "Trailblazer" which reveals the connections of the web pages you're > visiting as a topicmap. By web pages being topics in DM they are ready for > being associated with each kind of other topic, which provides the basis for > annotation. DM's generic access control system allows for > personal/workgroup/public annotations. And context-sensetivity is implicit > though DM's omnipresent workspace setting (there could be a workspace "I > Annotate 2016"). Furthermore topicmaps displayed in DM are stable, that is > spatial topic neighborhoods are preserved (instead of re-layouted each time > the focus changes). This way both is supported, the human's sense of > orientation, and the human's visual memory. > > At the time DM's "Trailblazer" feature was developed it was a proof of > concept. It does not work anymore with current DM versions. That's why it is > switched off by default. I would appreciate very much if Gerben or some other > developer would take care of DM's "Trailblazer" feature. > > Cheers, > Jörg > > >> On 23 Jun 2016, at 19:37, Juergen Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> earlier this week I met with Gerben who was presenting at >> http://iannotate.org . He is working on a browser based tool https://re >> ad-write-web.org/ . You can wath his presentation here: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKzYmDUydTw . >> >> We have exchanged some ideas, e.g. about graphical designed queries and >> I told him about LATCH: https://parsonsdesign4.wordpress.com/resources/ >> latch-methods-of-organization/ >> >> It would be cool to join forces, but for the moment he wants to focus >> on his own work. But I think it is worthwhile to have a look at his >> work, as I think we can get some inspiration for future clients to >> DeepaMehta. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Juergen
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