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Academic publishing treats scholarship as a finished, individually owned artefact. This post describes a writing and publishing workflow built on a different premise: that a scholarly corpus could work like an open source project — readable, contributable, forkable, and never permanently owned by anyone.
A detailed account of a week-long project to restructure 5,819 Obsidian notes using AI as a working partner. The project involved building a 23-category taxonomy, migrating thousands of legacy notes to a consistent metadata structure, and generating AI-written descriptions for every note in the collection. The piece describes not just what was done, but how extended planning conversations, external project documentation, and careful human review at each phase made the work tractable. The most unexpected outcome was that building infrastructure for a note collection required articulating, for the first time, precisely how I think about my academic field.
Source details Abu-Salih, B., & Alotaibi, S. (2024). A systematic literature review of knowledge graph construction and application in education.
The accumulated cost of outdated, ambiguous, or poorly structured institutional knowledge — manageable when humans compensate, operationally consequential when AI agents depend on it literally.
A standardised ontology providing business, data, and application architectures for the higher education sector — and a practical starting point for making institutional knowledge machine-readable.
Most conversations about AI focus on what it produces. This post describes what an AI workflow for academics actually looks like in practice — building structured context through documentation, iteration, and judgement that makes AI collaboration increasingly effective over time. Drawing on several weeks of restructuring scholarly output with Claude Code, I describe the iteration cycle, the role of documentation as external memory, and what the process reveals about the relationship between explicit information architecture and productive AI collaboration.
A database that stores explicit relationships between entities, serving as the storage layer for knowledge graphs
Professional education curricula face a fundamental infrastructure problem: while comprehensively documented, they lack systematic queryability. This presentation introduces a three-layer architecture using graph databases as the source of truth for curriculum structure, supported by vector databases for content retrieval and the Model Context Protocol for stakeholder interfaces.
When AI agents consume documentation as operational input, it undergoes a category shift from reference material to operational architecture — inaccuracies no longer merely inconvenience readers, they cause system failures. This essay argues that the primary bottleneck for institutional AI integration is not AI capability but information architecture: how institutional knowledge is structured, maintained, and made available to AI systems. Documentation written for human readers cannot function as reliable AI input without deliberate restructuring around explicit relationships and rigorous maintenance workflows. Treating this transition as a governance imperative — rather than a technical afterthought — determines whether AI integration delivers on its institutional promise.
A structured representation of knowledge using entities connected by explicit, typed relationships
A system-level discipline focused on building dynamic, state-aware information ecosystems for AI agents