"But again, what's the alternative?" Blockhain based social networks would seem the obvious choice. The onramp needs to be easier I feel though. Make the ID-management, posting and global searching easy enough.
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conzept
Conzept is an attempt to create a topic exploration system for the 21st century, using pluggable datasources based on REST and/or SPARQL API's.
See: - https://conze.pt - https://twitter.com/conzept__
Project links:
- https://conze.pt/guide/user_manual (documentation)
- https://x.com/conzept__ (development news)
- https://github.com/waldenn/conzept (source repo)
A free topic-exploration tool based on Wikipedia, Wikidata, Archive.org, OpenAlex and other datasources. AI-based search and chat are also supported now (enter a locally stored OpenAI key).
An opensource, semantic topic exploration system, which can use any remote REST datasources (and soon self-hosted, custom TypeSense datasources).
See: https://conze.pt - this is an encyclopedic showcase, but could be used for any other information system, eg. a cultural archive.
Development news: https://x.com/conzept__
Docs: https://conze.pt/guide/user_manual
Feedback welcome! I'm aware that the mobile experience needs work.
Not true: Wikidata, Open Alex, Europeana, ... and many smaller projects making use of all that data, such as my project Conzept (https://conze.pt)
I think the future holds a synthesis of LLM functions with semantic entities and logic from knowledge graphs (this is called "neuro-symbolic AI"), so each topic/object can have a clear context, upon which you can start prompting the AI for the preferred action/intention.
Already implemented in part on my Conzept Encyclopedia project (using OpenAI): https://conze.pt/explore/%22Neuro-symbolic%20AI%22?l=en&ds=r...
Something like this is much easier done using the semantic web (3D interactive occurence map for an organism): https://conze.pt/explore/Trogon?l=en&ds=reference&t=link&bat...
On Conzept one or more bookmarks you create, can be used in various LLM functions. One of the next steps is to integrate a local WebGPU-based frontend LLM, and see what 'free' prompting can unlock.
JSON-LD is also created dynamically for each topic, based on Wikidata data, to set the page metadata.
Cool! Could you please allow for searching by URL parameter. Then I can link it from the video section on topics at https://conze.pt Thanks!
Encarta was a big inspiration for my Conzept project (https://conze.pt) - a topic exploration system based on Wikipedia, Wikidata and other (pluggable) datasources.
See many usage examples here: https://twitter.com/conzept__
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Not quite the same, but I've been working on geo-timeline views of Wikidata events.
WWII example: https://conze.pt/explore/World%20War%20II?l=en&t=link-split&...
Works of Rembrandt (by inception date and their location): https://conze.pt/explore/Rembrandt?l=en&t=link-split&i=Q5598...
Showing cultural periods is still to be worked out, but already supported somewhat: https://conze.pt/explore/Victorian%20era?l=en&t=link-split&i...
Very well done. Looks so nice with elevations, trees, shadows and even infrastructure details.
Hooked the lat/lon fields up to my encyclopedia project. Example: https://conze.pt/explore/Bern?l=en&t=link&i=Q70&u=https%3A%2...
I'm creating an encyclopedia based on Wikipedia, Wikidata, YouTube and many other sources of information. For each of the millions of topics in a language-wiki, the software renders a "topic card" with thematic sections, each containing links to other content. Link: https://conze.pt