# vantage-point

Generic system for exploring, analyzing, and reasoning about dependency
structures across arbitrary domains, treated as **Network-Based Graph
Models (NBGM)** — typed graphs of entities (nodes) and relationships
(edges) enriched with attributes, provenance, and semantics.

Vantage Point is a **multi-perspective exploration environment**: the same
underlying graph can be viewed from different "vantage points" to answer
domain-specific questions, rather than binding one fixed visualization or
domain vocabulary to the model. The vocabulary is grounded in Tamara
Munzner's nested design model and the NBGM framing from Meyer, Sedlmair,
and Munzner (BELIV 2012).

## Status

**Specification stage — no implementation yet.** `docs/nbgm-spec-v0.1.md`
is a substantial (670-line) draft baseline defining core identity/typing
rules for nodes and edges, the attribute model and namespaces, provenance
and lineage, a baseline catalog of inspection operations, and alignment
notes for repo-native graph bindings (e.g. Railiance Fabric). Storage
engines, query languages, visualization encodings, and domain-specific
type catalogs are explicitly out of scope for v0.1.

## Getting oriented

- **Intent:** `INTENT.md` — full rationale and grounding in the NBGM
  research literature
- **Scope and boundaries:** `SCOPE.md`
- **The spec:** `docs/nbgm-spec-v0.1.md`
- **Build history:** `workplans/`

## In scope

NBGM specs, registry, and exploratory docs; State Hub workplans for graph
exploration features; alignment with `repo-scoping` and `railiance-fabric`
graph models. See `SCOPE.md` for the full in/out-of-scope breakdown.