Braindump

Braindump, my main project at the moment, is basically wiki system, but with more semantic power—it stores links as triples with relationship values, which allows precise sorting and querying. The idea right now is to use it as a platform to experiment with the possibilities created by storing data as triples. I think of it almost as a Microsoft Excel for information: once you put your data into the structure it suggests (cells in Excel, pages with attributes in braindump), computer power can be applied to the data, turning tasks that used to be a pain in the ass (eg. graphing in Excel, lists in information management) into trivialities.

A RESTful API (RDF, YAML, JSON, etc) is also in the plans, which would allow external applications (eg the wikimap) to be powered by data from a braindump.

We’ll see where it goes. More info:

• on google code — the hub. download to the right of the page.
• working demo — get your hands dirty with it
• svn commits — follow along with development
• the source

Also, stay tuned here for updates, new directions, etc.