SpimeDB unifies the semantic, spatial, and temporal dimensions of data in a common n-dimensional ranged vector space.
Exploit hyperdimensional locality for efficient iterative access in display, analysis, and distributed computation applications.
// ID, but if it's missing it can be assigned randomly (ex: UUID).
I: <URL/UUID>,
// Default name, label, title. If missing, the ID is used
N: "name",
// Tags (array of strings, to the id's of tags from which this intensionally inherits)
'<': [ tag1, tag2, ... ],
// Description: free-form string, or a internationalized string table, ex:
'_': { _: "xx" /* optional 2 letter country code indicating the default language involved in this nobject, which may be blank to represent complete internationalization */,
en: "english label",
es: "etiqueta en español",
...
},
// Author, origin, provenance: one or more nobject IDs. URL or email string works fine
A: 'http://url/id',
// Editing times.
// A number, or an array of numbers in milliseconds.
// First # is creation time, subsequent # indicate the delta offset to
// the last edit time (to save digits).
// Millisecond (ms) or lesser precision: hexadecimal long integer
// Finer than millisecond (ex: nanosecond): floating point number
E: [ 238472389472, 23423432 ],
// Expiration time in unixtime milliseconds. After this time point, the nobject permits its deletion. If zero, the object is considered temporary and can be deleted at any point.
X: 23842738423,
// Routing / privacy / visiblity directives and public keys
P: [ 'private', 'anonymous', ... ],
// Spacetime bounds: 4 (four) dimensional vector of spatial (0, 1, 2) and temporal (3) ranged values.
'@': [
1.3, //point, matches within a finite epsilon range determined by floating poitn precision
[ -558.0, 2494.0 ], //bounded range
[ -Infinity, +Infinity ], //matches any
NaN //matches any (shorter)
]Spatial projection models resolve an internal spatial vector. The protocol must specify a default and assign these id's for specific encoding type:
- longitude (X) first, then latitude (Y). for consistency with usual X,Y vector ordering
- altitude measured in meters relative to some sea level constant.
- requires modulo +/-180 degrees longitude which may require preprocessing certain queries
- distortion at poles
- TODO determine the newest projection model
- orthogonally-aligned bounding boxes will not have a common alignment with spheroid planet surface, which may impact efficiency
- ?
assuming flat temporal dynamics model: unixtime, or millisecond epochs since ~1970 will exhibit variations in precision if stored as a 32-bit float, but 64-bit float ('double')' is better but not as ideal as 64-bit integer ('long').
// arbitrary named data values as fields with associated value
key1: value,
property2: data##Graph (draft, essentially macros for node-centric graph declarative extensions)
//contents, contained, children, hyperedge internal adjacencies
C: { /* one or more nobjects */ }
//containers, parents, hyperedge external adjacencies
P: { /* one or more nobjects */ }
//incoming source directed edge ("link")
// the strength value can be used to indicate
// < 1.0 (default) strength / weight / priority / importance
S: {
//predicate identifies an nobject
predicate1: {
[ //single or array object
"identified_source_nobject",
[ 0.85, "another_identified_source_with_given_strength" ]
{ /* inline object, with an effective ID prefixed by the outer object */ },
]
},
predicate2: {
[ "targetID", "targetID" ]
}
},
//destination / outgoing target directed edge ("link")
D: { /*..*/ },
//undirected graph edge
U: { /*..*/ },$N({ }) - wraps an instance of class N wrapping the given nobject data. throws exceptions if the data is invalid
$N(string) - resolves by id, unless the string begins with '{' in which case it is parsed as JSON
$N() - returns new NObject.HashNObject with random ID
$N([obj1, obj2, ..]) - returns a new container object with the supplied items as the children
n.uuid() //UUID, formed from the id plus some combination of time and authorship
n.json() //JSON representation of the nobject
n.equal(m) //equality test
n.merge(m[, merge parameters]) //returns an object containing the merge or union of two nobjects. any conflicts result in a conflict field with an array of describing each conflict such that no data is destroyed. if nothing can be merged, the result is equivalent to $N([n, m])
n.xml() //XML representation, which can be directly inserted into an HTML page DOM as a web widget
n.graph(target[, enabled graphed features and parameters]) //adds to the specified graph object nodes and edges representing 'n' and its connections. if target is falsy, it creates a new graph
n.clone(newID) //clone with new ID. if falsy: randomly generated ID and adds blank (anonymous) author '_' to the end of the author list, which will possibly be replaced with the actual author at some point prior to storage or transmission otherwise it will remain anonymous
n.modified() //sets the modification time to current system time in a new cloned object. optional parameter to specify this (backdate or forward date)
n.narsese() //narsese representation (string)
n.rdf(options) //RDF representation, options indicating which serialization (default: JSON RDF)
n.edges(incoming,outgoing,undirected, edgeVisitor) //iterate certain kinds of edges:
// edgeVisitor(rootNobject,incoming,outgoing,undirected,
// otherNobject,predicate[,strength])
// if returns falsy, iteration is cancelled
n.attr() //returns a new object containing only the non-nobject attributes
n.attr(x) //returns the data value associated with attribute key (if string), or sets the values if parameter is a JS object
n.attr(key, value) //sets the data value
n.distanceSpace(m) //returns space distance in meters. NaN if either has no spatial information, positive value if there is separation, 0 if fully coincident, and negative if partially overlapping as a percentage scaled in proportion (or inverse?) to the mean radii
n.distanceTime(m) //similar to space distance but for 1D time regions in seconds.
//tags are those edges which are stored in an array in .D.a (or just .D if the value is an array and not an object)
// this means the outgoing 'a' edges
// ('a' is the indefinite article predicate, as in owl:isA, "is a", or "isA")
n.tagSet() - returns an array containing the tag strings
n.tagStrengths() - returns an object containing a mapping of the tags to the strength values, ex: { tag1: 1, tag2: 0.5 }
n.tag(tagID) - returns the strength (default 1.0) of the tag if present, or undefined otherwise, 0.0 or falsy being equivalent to undefined/null
n.tag(tagID[, strength]) - sets the tag strength of a particular tagReal-time decentralized global propagation, notification, and analysis tools for AUTONOMY MAXIMIZATION and AUTHORITY DISSOLUTION.
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