An Evolutionary Series of Information Modelling CONSTRUCTS
Created and explored in a series of projects – initiated by the Concept Demonstrator ‘The HNS Browser’ in 1986/7, originally picked up by IBM UK New Technologies Group at Hursley Park, Winchester (‘The GPE’ Project), and subsequently supported by Sun Microsystems, The Textile Industries Department at the University of Leeds, The Schools of English at the Universities of Leeds and Manchester Metropolitan, The Asian Development Bank, The School of Geography & The New Environment Centre at the University of Leeds, and The Leeds University Librarian.
From original ‘concept demonstrator’ in 1986/7 – a computer-based browsable schema with hyperlinks to definition, detail and reference – to the ‘Frameworks’ Methodology & Tool in 2024/5.
The ‘HNS Browser’ 1987
Based on the HNS Graphical Schema in 1986, a first computer-based concept demonstrator; SCHEMA as BROWSER; the fewest key elements; categorisation.
The annotation lines disturbed my aim os simplicity and minimalism in graphical representation.
RECTANGLES 1989/90
(THE PROTOTYPE GPE GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT)
CHUNKS 1991
The STILE Browser
PAGES – GARDEN 1995
The EFC Browser
CONTAINERS
CLASSES, HIERACHIES: GRAPHS, NODES; THE SUPERCLASS
FRAMES
The First Object in the ‘Frameworks’ Meta Model
MODELS
The CLCV Project Browser
The IMPFW Modelling Prototype
‘Frameworks’, 2012-Current
Meta Model: Frame Thinking & Modelling Space, Core Spinal Model of FOCUS, CONTEXT and INSTANCES, Stuff Box, Elaborate Button
