Midsem Presentation

Our question: Introduce and describe the project such that all project students can understand what you have done

A personal knowledge base (PKB) is an electronic tool used to express, capture, and later retrieve the personal knowledge of an individual.

It differs from a traditional database in that it contains subjective material particular to the owner, that others may not agree with nor care about.

Importantly, a PKB consists primarily of knowledge, rather than information; in other words, it is not a collection of documents or other sources an individual has encountered, but rather an expression of the distilled knowledge the owner has extracted from those sources.

Preparation

• Requirements gathering
• Software evaluation
• Open Source repository

Main Features

• Auto backups
• Data survivability
• Portability (open standards)
• Knowledge capture
• Knowledge retrieval
• Knowledge organisation
• Knowledge protection (encrypted backups, SSL)
• Version Control
• Accessible

What we have so far

• Debian OS
• Debian package of the system
• Personal Repository for each user
• Web directory for each user
• Daily backups
• Exporting backups to dropbox
• Dokuwiki system
• Syncing of dokuwiki users into linux users
• logging
• Enabling of users Dropbox account from Dokuwiki
• logging
• Emailing of Dropbox authorization link
• Minor UI improvements
• SSL connection

Future

• More logging
• Ability to restore backups from dokuwiki
• Ability to switch between different backups and current knowledge
• Main product not just Braincase, also Github Project