sensemaking furore

In a comment to Ramana Rao's post on REAP (Retrieve, Extract, Arrange, Present), Mark Stefik asks:

is there a design for a good-enough sensemaking system for broad use?

I think a good sensemaking system will let me create a website like the Macintosh history site Folklore.org, a community-based, cross-linked, and metadata-rich collection of objects and views.

What's the architecture of Folklore.org:

• Custom information objects: page (with links to author, characters, topics, comments, ...), topic, author, character, comment
• Different views on objects (small, medium, large)
• Sortable and filterable collection views (sort pages by rating, date, title...)
• Stored queries (recently added, overall favorites)
• User accounts
• Overall layout that provides shortcuts (all topics, all authors, all characters, weblog)

I offer free drinks to the first to create a sensemaking system that lets me put together the raw structure of such a website in a couple of minutes. Without custom coding.

Plug: my work on the Buckybase document database and beyond is aimed squarely at this task.

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