Articles

Writing from the lab.

Essays on things, kinds and how they relate - the ideas behind the engine, and what they look like in practice.

Semantic Types: making data mean something Why this project exists, and what it means to help people organize what they know. Why we build lists Clay tablets, the periodic table, parts lists - and why a list with details quietly becomes a model. Relationships From Aristotle's "is" and "has" to the relations a model needs, and the patterns built on them. Examples Five small examples of the ideas, each running today as a sample package. Future work The questions that remain open now that the core ideas run.