Babel Nexus Index

The Index is a discovery system: a navigable knowledge graph of the public domain, built on two floors. Each hexagonal gallery is a thematic shelf holding canonical primary works whose copyright has expired or that were released into the public domain. Hexagonal Galleries are connected by typed edges that descend directly from Vannevar Bush's "associative trails" idea in As We May Think (1945). At the exact center of every hexagonal gallery is a spiral staircase to the next floor — Borges' hexagonal-gallery architecture, made navigable. Visitors can walk the graph hexagonal gallery by hexagonal gallery, ask the Oracle natural-language questions about the Archive, build and share their own associative trails (Bush's idea, made concrete), and view every primary source's full text via Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, or Wikipedia. The Oracle is powered by Google Gemini through a small first-party API. The browser bundle never sees the API key. Beneath the sciences sits the literary substrate from which formal knowledge later crystallized. Reach Level II via the spiral staircase at the center of any Level I hexagonal gallery, or via the dashboard tile.