The origins of the idea for this graph erupted during a driving home conversation between Mei Lin, JP, and MrDan. The graph is to be configured as public, but limited in editing capabilities to those invited to do so. Perhaps that can change in the future; for now, the idea is to learn how the graph should be arranged, what sorts of information make sense, and so forth.
Since I've done a few other such graphs, I have a kind of pattern language I follow; even though I follow it here, that's not meant to suggest it is the only way to organize a graph.
The key points I like to cover at the top level are these:
- What is the vocabulary in play here?
- What resources are we dealing with?
- What conversations are we having?
- What are the needs?
- What are the opportunities?
- What are the solutions?
- ...and more
There are clearly more than those. For now, I start with simple things like vocabulary: what are the terms and concepts in play? There, one has the opportunity to define terms and document them with citations into selected literature, copy and paste stuff into the details area of that graph node (even whole sections from Wikipedia have been copied in these graphs -- or embedded YouTube videos).
I also am interested in not just aggregating, but connecting resources. Bookmarks, whole topical pages or ideas, each then linked to the vocabulary terms defined elsewhere. This builds a graph complete with wormholes which connect ideas.