ATUIN

Atuin the unique innovation network

page on sourceforge

Atuin is a object oriented software that is written in PHP5*. The main data is stored in RSS-Feeds* in version 1.0.

The internet today is a huge collection of knowledge and information. But most of them can not be accessed directly. You need search engines which are collecting and sorting the information to make it accessible for humans. Unfortunately the engines are not able to edit all the data and can not put them in the right context. This dificiency can not be solved with the contemporary implementation of the internet.

Versatileness of data storage is also a obstacle for the search engines. There are no well mellowed ways to read the whole internet correct by an engine and to put all gathered information in a correct context to each other.

Search engines can not distinguish between real information and false ones. In that case, the quality of the search hits depends on the query of the user and his ability to rate the information by its content.
Today, some projects are trying to avoid false information spreading by using the social phenomenon collective wisdom. A well known example is the knowledge-portal wikipedia.org.

But there ist no possibility to assign the concept of wikis to the whole internet. Thus there is no way to edit the information by another person than the main author.

Atuin tries to close this gap. It stores its data into the XML* based RSS* 1.0 suggestion by W3C*. The advantages are clear. A standartized format gives the possibility for automatic systems to collect all the information and metainformatin out of defined fields. The content and the information are stored in special fields to access them directly without the need of any text scanning program which may be needed otherwise to extract the information.

Atuin seizes the concepts of the wiki und admits users the variation and amending of other data in case the author permits that. Furthermore simple comments refering to a problem can be mad.

Each answer is seen as a question itself. It is saved independently but with a link to the original question.
The author may also quote additional links. The linking in the background prevents the loss of the context of an information. It is also easier for search engines to scan the network. So there must just been excerised detection routines for cycles (which should already excist).