Moving information, creating knowledge
Beyond knowledge bases
Over the years I have archived over 2000 fascinating articles, which are mostly about IT security and related with IT system development and administration. I have grown interested in making the essence of this available. To do so a knowledge base is not enough, because commonly it’s a mere dumping ground with a full-text search and tags. I want to structure information and visualize it.
State of the art information visualization
The first thing necessary to archive this is a view. If you take a closer look at JavaScript libraries like the InfoVis Toolkit it nearly suggests itself, that such a modern animation is suitable. TreeMaps or Hypergraphs can visualize dimensions of information, which are easy to overlook: associations and weight (like the amount of content). Using JavaScript these days isn’t even reduced to 2D animations anymore, if you take a look at PhiloGL. Combined with JQuery and maybe with the Bootstrap library designing a visual entry point of a modern knowledge base seems to be straight forward.
Input / Output
Another interesting new technology is Chicago Boss. I have started to implement some simple controllers, which serialize persisted data into JSON. JS libs like InfoVis Toolkit work very well with it. Chicago Boss allows to do so in Erlang, and with very few lines of code. It’s a highly efficient web application framework, which due it’s useful MVC design-pattern can be utilized. It comes with a specific ORM, which also allows to use MongoDB as non-relational database.
So, when this ready I can finally publish again 