InfoCentral in transition: Historically focused on symbolic AI. Lost to neuro/neuro-symbolic side with LLM success. LLM-based tools may help finish symbolic side. A combination of approaches is needed for robust systems. Most website content is historical.

• Architectural Approach to Decentralization: InfoCentral is an information-centered architecture for better software and a decentralizable internet. Focuses on data portability, semantics, and interoperability. Avoids adoption pitfalls of systems-first approaches.
• A Unifier of Decentralized Internet Technologies: Many decentralized projects have valuable ideas but are difficult to combine. InfoCentral's Persistent Data Model provides a foundation for collaboration.
• A New Hypermedia for the Information-Centric Internet: Provides a standard for the information-centric internet like HTML did for the classic internet. Ensures universal baseline compatibility and fluidity.
• An Archival-Oriented Data Architecture: Helps archive human digital history. Default archival format. Can drive conversion from centralized systems.
• A Post-Application Software Architecture: Far more powerful than supporting networks. Enables app-free computing with declarative programming.
• An Ideal Substrate for AI Development: Paves the way for future AI development by re-centering computing around graph-structured data. Promotes social computing principles.
• A Foundation for Learnable Programming Environments: Recognizes the need for more natural programming. InfoCentral's approach allows for unhindered language and network research.
• A Unified Communication, Collaboration, and Community-Building Platform: Standardizes data and interaction patterns. Allows for diverse networks and composable software.
• A Unified Global Information Management Platform: Accepts the impossibility of a consistent view of the world. Uses hash-based data referencing for layering and annotation.
• A Unified Private Information Management Platform: Integrates all information without artificial boundaries.
• A Secure, Private, User-controlled Environment: Promotes user control of information with cryptography. Users can switch networks and software freely.

What InfoCentral will let us create:

• Standardized Interaction Patterns: Declarative contracts for using shared graph data.
• Decentralizable services: Any user or system can operate over the global data graph.
• Custom communities and social networks: Promotes diverse networks.
• Quality discourses: Allows for constructive conversations with reliable history.
• Uniquitous Computing Environments: The ideal interface for IoT devices.

Architectural Pillars:

• Secure-hash-based data identity and referencing: Entities referencable using hash values. No mutable pointers or human-meaningful naming.
• Information-Centric Networking: Makes data directly addressable and routable. Allows for various networking schemes.
• Reference metadata collection: Aggregates or notifies of new data. Uses metadata collections for discovered data.
• Graph-based data models: Allows unlimited composition and collaboration.
• Declarative programming models: Code and data become orthogonal. Facilitates parallelization and verifiability.
• Pattern-driven graph interactions replace APIs: Users interact by adding new entities. No interference or sandboxing needed.
• Dynamic, generated, multi-modal human user interfaces: Automatically generates user interfaces based on pattern-driven interactions.
• Cryptography preferred to access control lists: Consolidates security practices.

Project Philosophy:

• Why does technology architecture matter?: Influences people's interactions. Can improve society in various areas.
• Who is involved with InfoCentral?: A multi-disciplinary effort involving developers, academia, public sectors, and entrepreneurs.
• How does the InfoCentral project operate?: Two primary arenas - core architecture and practical applications. Cross-team collaboration is encouraged.