I've been really intrigued by IPFS <http://ipfs.io>. It is essentially a singly-rooted git tree distributed via bittorrent.
Something that this makes possible, is everyone publishing trees and software intelligently combining those. My version of this export directory exists as a git repo called tip <https://github.com/wholcomb/tip/>. My idea is a piece of data is available through many paths. For example, I want .../book/by/Frederik Pohl/Gateway/ <http://dhappy.org/.../book/by/Frederik Pohl/Gateway/> and .../book/award/Hugo/1978/winner/ <http://wholcomb.github.io/mimis/> to point to the same location. Navigation could be, in part, winnowing of possible completion paths. It could be coupled with a signing system that allows individuals or organizations to authoritatively publish nodes. So, different groups could curate different subtrees. All of these are then conglomerated so the ideal content is retrieved when a user requests something. -Will
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