Hi! I'm Shawn Murphy, a Canadian software architect living in Berlin.
On this site you'll find:
“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them” — Albert Einstein
I'm on a mission! Here are a few different ways it can be phrased:
Which challenges might this effort address?
HuViz is a scriptable, interactive, customizable, semantic web graph-visualization technology I've developed to help users to understand SemanticWeb ontologies and datasets.
It is designed to be a plugin for at least two systems, the LINCS -- Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship and the Nooron project.
NooronNoobj was an experiment in interactive graph layout of knowledge. It was built on a re-interpretation of the OKBC formalism. This Nooron prototype featured self-hosted semantic-oriented programming and knowledge management along with real-time collaborative ontologizing through a graph visualization.
The stack was thoroughly 201x (Node.js, D3.js and WebSockets) but the semantic aspect was a revisiting of the OKBC. In that way it harkened back to the PerlJavaIdeaEngine I wrote back in 1998. What an improvement in web standards we enjoy these days relative to the turbulence of the Browser Wars era!
Learning: This version had lots of great stuff about it, including that it enabled the collaboration on HuViz with the OrlandoProject. Henceforth HuViz consumed my available time and also convinced me that full OWL/RDF compatibility was worth settling on vs continuing with "noobj" OKBC semantics.
PyNooron at https://nooron.org (built on PyOKBC) was a version of Nooron which got to the point of being a SemanticPublishing system, performing KnowledgeRepresentation using the OKBC formalism and presenting it in formats such as HTML, GraphViz, DocBook, Postscript, PDF and PNG. It had ontologically-driven apps for PatternLanguages, ProjectManagement and BestPractices.
Here is PyNooron representing itself in this dynamically generated depiction of the Nooron Pattern Language
Here it is showing the PERT chart of its own development process
LaTeX is great, but it is a little tricky to use. OrgMode is an EMACS module which makes it even greater. I was missing out on OrgMode until just recently, so I've created a small document called LaTeX by Example (using org-mode) which demonstrates:
The PDF version of the document even includes its own .org source code
OrgMode matters because its a free and open tool for reproducible research and literate programming in a programming-language agnostic way.
Spangler is a fractal graphics algorithm which displays number sequences (for example 2,6,5,4,3) in a fashion which can be described as "Draw 3 groups of 4 groups of 5 groups of figures with 6 vertices where the lines travel a distance of two vertices". Then it goes further and animates the little buggers...
| 1 3 | 1 4 | 2 5 | 2 6 | 1 3 3 | 1 3 3 3 | 1 3 3 3 3 |
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