//A suggested [[wiki:requirements-commons|requirement]] for a living knowledge commons wiki//

====== Graphical rendering of the page graph ======

Various different semantic aspects of the page graph should be able to be viewed graphically.

===== Why is this desirable? =====

Some people work much better with graphical representations, and I’ve heard it called for over and over again.

===== How it could work, and issues =====

It could just be a matter of ensuring that semantic data can be exported in a form that is recognised by an existing graphing tool. The page graph is not a page, so coming into a page from the page graph does not create a backlink, but it its use is recorded in the viewing history.

===== Evaluation, or existing implementations =====

What has this kind of tool built in?

[[https://cmap.ihmc.us/|Cmaptools]] can show a graph with each node linked to a web page, but it is not clear how much work would be needed to do the reverse/

https://edotor.net/ looks interesting, but doesn’t seem to have labelled arcs, so doesn’t do semantic links as required above.