An interlay starts as an idea: the need for a concordance of parts of a system, their connections to one another and to other systems, and the society of contributors and practice that sustains it. And the need for maintenance including work to visualize, traverse, and maintain it.
Someone realizes that there are enough moving parts in a system that a simple linked network is not enough, and can get disconnected or tangled. So a connective tissue is formed, with its own texture, resilience, and equilibrium, and bulk properties that individual connections can anchor to or draw on.
This is an initial collection of three things:
- Descriptions of interlays around a topic or question, each of which may develop its own repository of code, data, and media.
- Documentation of interlay tools and prototypes
- An awesome list of interlays, or things that look like them, across the web. (see below)
Once we reach 100 or so documents, we will revisit migrating this to a wiki with better templating + transclusion + Wikidata integration.
For now, if you have an idea for an interlay or associated tool, or are working on a project that serves as one, add a new .md describing it, and link to its components, participants and associated source + interface layers. If there are associated files that you'd like to gather here in one place, please file an issue requesting a new repository for it.
- Authority: VIAF - the Virtual International Authority File, GND
- General knowledge: Wikidata - a consolidated global namespace for entities and properties, with detailed descriptions
- Holy texts: concordance list
- Awe: Awesome lists (very incomplete)
- Geography: OSM and featured OSM layers, Geograph UK and DE
- Biology
- Biodiversity: iNaturalist and the Biodiversity databases (WP)
- Ecology: Ecology databases (WP)
- Genetics: Genetics databases (WP)
- Space: NASA/Harvard Astrophysics Data System,
- Crowdsourcable science: Zooniverse,
- ... add yours here!
- Awesome Extitution efforts
- Awesome Awesome chapters