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Another conceptual description

• The project goal is to model arbitrary knowledge in a systematic, useful
  way, in a highly connected and distributed repository.
  
  The approach is to reduce knowledge to the most atomic level possible and
  interconnect all facts, as a comprehensive object model connects entities
  internally. This takes traditional OO design and allows it to occur at
  runtime, as a side-effect of data entry or import. Another way to look
  at is as "knowledge base creation" without the advance requirement of
  building a taxonomy; also it uses objects and relationships, instead of
  declarations, for storing data. Obviously this goal is a long way out
  and we're starting very small.
  
  The dream is for the OneModel system to someday be as easy and useful for
  recording and traversing knowledge as a document authoring tool or the WWW
  are for creating, sharing, and traversing documents, and equally useful
  to genealogists, physicists, or business people. It would be wonderful
  if it someday became useful software engineers, for building complex,
  ad-hoc knowledge systems.
  
  (In another sense, it could be viewed as related the MyLifeBits project of
  Microsoft's Gordon Bell, or to LifeStreams, from Yale's David Gelernter,
  but much broader in scope and more open than either. I also think of it
  sometimes (loosely) as a potential database back-end for the Semantic Web as
  a front-end.)