May 22, 2004
James Burke's K-Web Project
 | i loved the Connections series, and once spent an enjoyable evening hearing James Burke speak in the very late '80s in Denver. This looks like a way to represent these sorts of connections graphically. Thanks, Jacob Lord. Quoted from the site: |
Here’s how it worksMore in linkThe Knowledge Web presents knowledge in a highly interconnected, holistic way that makes it possible to follow an almost infinite number of paths of exploration among people, places, things, and events.
Each such person, place, thing, or event is represented by a node in a web of connections. Selecting a node brings up in-depth information, a "vital statistics" summary, and links to multimedia or other web sites.
From each node, users can travel to other nodes that are connected via historical relationships. The Knowledge Web also allows users to "zoom out" and see the constellation of other nodes that relate to any given starting point. Users are never lost because they are oriented in space by maps, in time by a timeline, and in their own journey by an archived list of all the nodes they’ve visited. They can even save maps of their journeys and e-mail them to other explorers. The map and timeline can also be used as input with other filtering devices, so users can find, for instance, French 17th-century chemists who were self-educated.
Posted by sciencegrrl at May 22, 2004 12:22 AM