Astrolabe: A Content-Addressable Hypergraph for Semantic Knowledge Management

Abstract

Existing knowledge management tools either preserve prose but lose structural relationships, or capture relationships but restrict edge semantics to fixed vocabularies. We introduce Astrolabe, a content-addressable hypergraph for semantic knowledge management. Entries are identified by the SHA-256 hash of their content, carry an ordered reference list of arbitrary width, and store an opaque record string interpreted by plugins. The structure admits two orthogonal decompositions: by width and by depth. We demonstrate the framework with a plugin bridging informal and formal mathematics.