An archive, an arc hive or the anarchive: prolegomena to Knowledge Management System(s) for any future human or trans-human ally

https://wizzion.com/archive0

On ontological importance of archives

The only barrier against tendencies of certain entities to rewrite history is the moral integrity of the archivist.

Kastalia KMS

"... nichts entzieht sich der Darstellung durch Worte so sehr und nichts ist doch notwe ndiger, den Menschen vor Augen zu stellen, als gewisse Dinge, deren Existenz weder beweisbar noch wahrscheinlich ist, welche aber eben dadurch, daß fromme und gewissenhafte Menschen sie gewissermaßen als seiende Dinge behandeln, dem Sein und der Möglichkeit des Geborenwerdens um einen Schritt näher geführt werden." 

In Josef Knechts handschriftlicher Übersetzung / Kastalia Archiv / Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

Kastalia instances

teacher.solar / gardens.digital

fibel.digital

Grunewaldstrasse cafeteria

kastalia.medienhaus.udk-berlin.de

Narrative behind Kastalia KMS

the project of 2nd Archive resp. "2nd Foundation" germinated for many years

ultimate impetus for creation of KMS given by need of VK and KuM study programs for a unified aggregator and generator of Einführungveranstaltung (EV) presentations

first EV in winter semester 2016/2017 at url https://cloud.medienhaus.udk-berlin.de/community

first public demonstration at UdK Zukunfstag 2019

deployment of other instances in 2021

handbook generator (SQL->LaTex->PDF) deployed in Summer Semester 2022

Implementation

Perl Dancer app behind nginx proxy

PostgreSQL database with just three tables: "knots", "bounds" and "zeitgeist"

all knot-related ad hoc information stored in knots.attributes hstore

main predicates: "is_parent", "has_bookmark", "contains" common to all instances, certain predicates "is_uttered_as", "illustrates", "is_symbiont_with" etc. instance-specific)

Philosophy

Kastalia is composed of "knots" which have attributes and relations ("bounds") to other "knots".

Everything (e.g. user, institution, event, presentation slide, fairy tale, musical piece) is a knot.

A knot is a "Ding an sich". 

Bounds are predicated. (hello sir Berners-Lee, hello Wikibase, hello "semantic web")

A knot is presented to an observer (e.g. human user) by means of a template.

Combination of a knot, other knots which are bound to it and a template yield "Ding für uns".

an Archive

The English word archive /ˈɑːrkaɪv/ is derived from the French archives (plural), and in turn from Latin archīum or archīvum, the romanized form of the Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheion). The Greek term originally referred to the home or dwelling of the Archon, a ruler or chief magistrate, in which important official state documents were filed and interpreted; from there its meaning broadened to encompass such concepts as "town hall" and "public records".

The root of the Greek word is ἀρχή (arkhē), meaning among other things "magistracy, office, government", and derived from the verb ἄρχω (arkhō), meaning "to begin, rule, govern" (also the root of English words such as "anarchy" and "monarchy").

Database

In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases spans formal techniques and practical considerations including data modeling, efficient data representation and storage, query languages, security and privacy of sensitive data, and distributed computing issues including supporting concurrent access and fault tolp

A database management system (DBMS) is the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze the data. The DBMS software additionally encompasses the core facilities provided to administer the database. The sum total of the database, the DBMS and the associated applications can be referred to as a database system. Often the term "database" is also used loosely to refer to any of the DBMS, the database system or an application associated with the database.

Technical advice 1

Learn SQL

what You want to use is PostgreSQL and nothing else than PostgreSQL

hstore is Your friend https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/hstore.html

Example 1 :: database of kyberia.sk

digital community which I founded in Slovakia in 2002

still used by few hundred people

architecture based around the principle "all nodes are functionally identical"

MySQL database; core tables: "nodes", "neurons" and "node_access"

Corpora

avoid XML

encode everything in utf-8

the swiss-knife of pattern extraction: grep -r -P ...

other useful commands: wc, uniq, sort

an Altar

aggregates information (sometimes in a form of an artefact)

gives in certain form "sense" to the archived entity

has something to do with "power"

Example 0 :: Cataster of Slovak Republic (2011)

link t.b.a. on this folio

Intro