AJ WIEBE

Software Engineer · Principal Consultant
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Projects / Research Knowledge Graph

Research Knowledge Graph

A personal, plugin-first knowledge graph for academic research — not owned by any single vendor.

Why

Every research tool I've used — reference managers, note apps, AI assistants — wants to own the graph. I wanted the graph to outlast all of them.

How it works

The core defines capability contracts — a Research Library Connector, a Knowledge Store, a Scholarly Metadata Provider — and never talks to a specific product. Plugins implement the contracts. Swap a vendor, keep the graph.

What I learned

Still in design — nothing shipped yet. The hard part isn't the graph itself, it's writing contracts stable enough that a plugin written in year one still works in year five.

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