Personal Knowledge Domain
๐๐๐ค๐ช๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ค๐ง ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ: What if we could encapsulate everything a person knowsโtheir entire bubble of knowledge, what Iโd call a Personal Knowledge Domain or better, our ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐, and represent it in an RDF graph? From that foundation, we could create Personal Agents that act on our behalf. Each of us would own our agent, with the ability to share or lease it for collaboration with other agents.
If we could make these agents secure, continuously updatable, and interoperable, what kind of power might we unlock for the human race?
Is this idea so far-fetched? It has solid grounding in knowledge representation, identity theory, and agent-based systems. It fits right in with current trends: AI assistants, the semantic web, Web3 identity, and digital twins. Yes, the technical and ethical hurdles are significant, but this could become the backbone of a future architecture for personalized AI and cooperative knowledge ecosystems.
Pieces of the puzzle already exist: Tim Berners-Leeโs Solid Project, digital twins for individuals, Personal AI platforms like personal.ai, Retrieval-Augmented Language Model agents (ReALM), and Web3 identity efforts such as SpruceID, architectures such as MCP and inter-agent protocols such as A2A. We see movement in human-centric knowledge graphs like FOAF and SIOC, learning analytics, personal learning environments, and LLM-graph hybrids.
What we still need is a unified architecture that:
* Employs RDF or similar for semantic richness
* Ensures user ownership and true portability
* Enables secure agent-to-agent collaboration
* Supports continuous updates and trust mechanisms
* Integrates with LLMs for natural, contextual reasoning
These are certainly not novel notions, for example:
* MyPDDL (My Personal Digital Life) and the PDS (Personal Data Store) concept from MIT and the EUโs DECODE project.
* The Human-Centric AI Group at Stanford and the Augmented Social Cognition group at PARC have also published research around lifelong personal agents and social memory systems.
However, one wonders if anyone is working on combining all of the ingredients into a fully baked cake - after which we can enjoy dessert while our personal agents do our bidding. | 21 comments on LinkedIn
Personal Knowledge Domain