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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.