Wikidata is a fantastic data source for all sorts of applications, not just for the Wikimedia projects (infoboxes, templates, etc.). I'm also excited about the Wikifunctions project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikifunctions) to created a large body of executable snippets that can be applied to data types.
Its just me (Jama Poulsen) currently. I hope at some point to be able to work with more people on this project and also to have a base for other archives / institutions (as a B2B product and service) to use the "Conzept UI" for their knowledge base. The Conzept framework is already pretty generalized, multi-lingual and customizable, but more needs to be done. I'm aiming to be able to do a first pilot at the end of the year (or later, depending on the progress). Feel free to send me a message if someone is interested in this.
There will be better user documentation coming (the current guide is a bit dated). Still thinking how to make that more modular, UI-integratable and maintainable.
The whole main app design and UI is from scratch, but many embedded apps are developed by others (I've been donating to some of them for their great work, but more needs to be done here IMHO). No papers or anything on all that currently.
Thanks! I spend a lot of time tweaking the UX. Its not easy to build a fluid and fast experience (especially on mobile).
The user base is still small, which is fine, as there are still many small issues to fix. I'm having a lot of fun developing this and hearing the feedback of users.
I started the project mostly for myself, to have a more integrated topic exploration tool, but things grew to also be of use to others. I think the main use case is just learning about topics of personal interest. I would like to experiment with some social features in the future (eg. ephemeral audio chat for topics).
Is this an LOD based solution where we can plug in arbitrary KGs?
Did you fork the UI from some existing Knowledge Graph viz tools, or is it made from scratch?