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The modern bookend to the Xanadu/ZigZag dives: where those are unbuilt ideals, Roam shipped fine-grained addressing (:block/uid), live transclusion (block embeds), bidirectional links, and a queryable structured space (DataScript datoms + Datalog). Studied as a candidate DB-backed/API-attached shard (XWiki family) and as a concrete engine-hosts-adapter surface (Roam Depot onload/onunload over window.roamAlphaAPI). Added UC-50 (attach block-graph DB shard, block<->page mapping), UC-51 (adopt native span IDs as portable span addresses), UC-52 (delegate derived views to a shard's native query engine); enriched UC-32/34/35/38. Boundary: Roam is one candidate shard mapped into the Markdown-first page model, not a substrate and not the federation layer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
research/
Exploration results for the problem and solution space.
Each exploration uses a yymmdd- prefix on the markdown file or subdirectory
when multiple files or sources are involved. Findings here inform spec/ and
SCOPE.md; they do not directly authorize implementation until promoted.
Active Explorations
| Date | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-08 | 260608-yawex-prior-art/ |
yawex 0.7.4 Perl wiki prior art; federation design seeds |
| 2026-06-08 | 260608-c2-wiki-origins/ |
Ward Cunningham & WikiWikiWeb origins; terms and use cases |
| 2026-06-08 | 260608-federation-concepts/ |
Federated Wiki, git/ActivityPub/Xanadu federation models |
| 2026-06-08 | 260608-wikiengines-overview/ |
Wiki engine landscape survey (Perplexity-assisted) |
| 2026-06-13 | 260613-xwiki-deep-dive/ |
XWiki impl, extension interfaces, ecosystem; UC-38/39 |
| 2026-06-13 | 260613-twiki-deep-dive/ |
TWiki impl, plugin API, ecosystem; UC-40/41 |
| 2026-06-13 | 260613-foswiki-deep-dive/ |
Foswiki store abstraction, extension API; UC-42/43 |
| 2026-06-14 | 260614-xanadu-deep-dive/ |
Project Xanadu — EDL/reference-not-copy, transclusion, addressing; UC-44/45/46 |
| 2026-06-14 | 260614-zigzag-deep-dive/ |
ZigZag/zzstructure — information space as orthogonal dimensions; UC-47/48/49 |
| 2026-06-14 | 260614-roam-deep-dive/ |
Roam Research — block-graph DataScript DB, transclusion, datalog, Roam Depot extension API; UC-50/51/52 |