BRbrettkromkamp·Nov 27, 2020
Contextualise: https://contextualise.dev/. It's an open source project of mine: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise
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Contextualise is an effective tool particularly suited for organising information-heavy projects and activities consisting of unstructured and widely diverse data and information resources
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Contextualise is an effective tool particularly suited for organising information-heavy projects and activities consisting of unstructured and widely diverse data and information resources
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 2 | 11 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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13 sourcesContextualise, an open source (https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise) knowledge management application: https://contextualise.dev/.
Currently, working on my (Python and JavaScript-based) Storyteller project, an interactive 3D storytelling web application based on semantic events: https://brettkromkamp.com/posts/narrative-events/
In Ask HN:Interesting things you built using PythonI have implemented my own open-source (https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise) topic maps-based personal knowledge management system: Contextualise: https://contextualise.dev/. However, I think Contextualise is missing quite a few of the features that you are looking for.
You can check out an exhaustive list of (personal) knowledge management applications, here: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/awesome-knowledge-managemen...
In Ask HN: What personal knowledge base software do you use?Contextualise, a (personal and collaborative) knowledge management system: https://contextualise.dev/
It's open source: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise
In Ask HN: What’s the coolest thing you have builtNot using KGs for feature engineering/machine learning, but more for (personal) knowledge management. Using my own open source tool, Contextualise (https://contextualise.dev/ and https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise). Check out the awesome-knowledge-management list for more KG and KM resources: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/awesome-knowledge-managemen...
At a professional level use KGs for educational web services in relation to curricula taxonomies.
In What tools are you using to build and visualize knowledge graphs in 2020?Contextualise (https://contextualise.dev/), a personal and collaborative knowledge management tool. It’s open source: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise.
With Contextualise, I am really scratching my own itch. That is, I am developing Contextualise for my own needs: I am using the application to structure and document the development of Contextualise itself but also as a tool to organise and document my other hobbies and research projects. Although, as mentioned, I am developing Contextualise for my own needs, I really do hope that other people find it to be useful for their own purposes.
In Ask HN: What’s your side project? (June 2020)Knowledge management (https://contextualise.dev/ and it's GitHub repo: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise).
In Ask HN: What do you use Python for?I’ve been working on and off for about a year on https://contextualise.dev/, a (collaborative) knowledge base application. It’s open source (https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise) so contributing code is always appreciated but having some road map-level input would be great, as well ;)
In Ask HN: Do you have any projects you'd like input or collaboration on?tl;dr Kicking out the non-experts won't solve the current problems and is likely to introduce new ones. It's a tooling issue, not a platform one.
This is a difficult problem. In trying to reduce the noise by choosing who gets to speak, you immediately encounter a number of issues related to gatekeeping. Moreover, filtering by source doesn't directly address what I see as the underlying problem of presenting relevant information to the user.
Competent and aggressive moderation seems to work fairly well for setting a standard of discourse without excluding anyone (HN is a good example here) but it's time consuming. And it doesn't do much of anything to address the problem of filtering for relevant information.
I think conversations themselves (ie actual back-and-forth with meaningful input from all sides) ultimately just don't scale well be
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yond a small group. Topic specific mailing lists seem to be the least-worst solution to date, and a Facebook group or subreddit is essentially the same thing implemented using a proprietary platform.
It seems like we still lack the models and tooling to address these problems on a fundamental level. Plenty of academic research exists surrounding knowledge graphs, ontologies, and relationships, but in practice all the mainstream tooling that "just works" is restricted to hierarchical folders (and tags if you're lucky). Zotero is very much a least-worst reference management solution in my opinion (I detailed my thoughts in an HN comment sometime within the past year if you're curious). On the literature front we have things like Arxiv Sanity Preserver and Semantic Scholar, but we're still proverbially drowning in new publications. Tools like Memex (https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex) and Contextualise (https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise) look promising, but aren't (yet?) a complete solution.
Ask HN: Where's that wiki/notes/knowledge management project?
Some years ago (I'm guessing about 5), I found a really cool project through HN. It was desktop software written by one person and they had put up a website with a really well edited and narrated demo video. The software was a sort of wiki/notes platform on steroids. It had semantic associations and I'm finding it difficult to describe. I believe the example document in the video was a maths or physics topic. Hoping someone else remembers this and has a link or more info, as I've tried several times to find it again without avail.
Edit: Closest thing I've found is Contextualise, but it's definitely not that. https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise
5 points · Open discussionWhen installing Contextualise, please install TopicDB (the topic maps engine on top of which Contextualise is built) directly from GitHub. Instructions to install Contextualise and TopicDB are provided, here: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise#install-the-d...
In Contextualise: Manage your knowledgeContextualise: Manage your knowledge
209 points · Open discussionI use my own tool that I developed specifically for the purpose of note-taking combined with knowledge management. The tool, called Contextualise, is open source: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise
In Ask HN: How do you take notes in life and work?