Brett Kromkamp

Building an AI and Data Pipeline for Norwegian Parliamentary Procedure

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Over the past months, I've been working on a project that combines my interests in data-engineering, AI, and civic transparency: building a [Contextualise AI](posts/contextualise-ai/)-based data pipeline that processes and analyses the procedures of the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget).

Contextualise AI

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Contextualise AI is a data integration and analytics platform designed for organizations of all kinds. It combines a graph-based approach to modeling the world with tools for building data pipelines, applications and AI workflows; an all in one platform. This makes it easier for different teams to work with data and apply it to real problems.

Contextualise AI

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Immersive Experiences

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

An immersive experience pulls a person into another real or imagined world, enabling them to manipulate and interact with their environment. Immersive experiences use a blend of visuals, sound and technology to deliver unforgettable and engaging worlds. I have written several articles related to immersive experiences that could be of interest: Engaging Web Experiences The Combination of Content and Knowledge Management - Part 1 Semantic Modelling of Narrative Events Building Blocks # The experiences provided below are not fully fledged immersive experiences but smaller building blocks and, as such, parts of larger experiences.

Three.js Development in 2023

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I have recently resumed developing three.js-based applications after a period of little to no development with three.js and the developer experience has been first-class. It's not that the three.js-specific developer experience was bad before, but now it's just so much better.

Brave Robot Universe

Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Brave Robot Universe project is part of my worldbuilding efforts and —to a greater or lesser extent— touches upon nearly all of my personal software development efforts.

Game Development Revisited

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Over the last couple of weeks I have circled back to one of my —always in the back of my mind— interests, namely game development.

Engaging Web Experiences

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

For the past year I have been working on the development of content-related concepts, processes and tools with the express purpose of building highly engaging and unique web-based content experiences.

The Combination of Content and Knowledge Management - Part 1

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The first of several brain dumps in relation to the management of content and knowledge on the web. Some of the following points will be generally applicable while others are more specific to the topic maps paradigm, a member of the semantic technologies family.

Hypergraph Associations

Sun, 24 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

TopicDB, the topic maps engine on top of which Contextualise is built has always had support for associations that connect more than two topics together. But, up until very recently, Contextualise didn't.

Awesome Knowledge Management

Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Awesome Knowledge Management project is an attempt to keep track of interesting people, projects, applications and so forth related to the combined knowledge management and knowledge graph space.

In Place Topic Creation

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In the vast majority of forms in Contextualise the user is expected to provide references to other topics resulting in, at times, a very cumbersome user experience.

Knowledge Paths

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Anything other than a trivial topic map can be difficult to navigate without getting lost. Knowledge paths can help in this situation.

Collaboration With Other Contextualise Users

Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Currently, Contextualise does not support effective collaboration. A new feature is being developed that will allow you to share your topic maps with other Contextualise users for the purpose of collaboration.

Semantically Meaningful Relationships

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Contextualise makes it possible to assert semantically meaningful relationships between topics. In practice though, what does that mean?

Manage Your Knowledge With Contextualise

Sun, 08 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Manage your knowledge with Contextualise, a tool particularly suited for organising information-heavy projects and activities consisting of unstructured and widely diverse data and information resources.

Codex Roboticus

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Codex Roboticus, an interactive e-book experiment.

StoryDB

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

StoryDB is a formalization of complex events with an accompanying persistence store. StoryDB is ideally suited for things like story development and investigative journalism. With StoryDB it is straightforward to (procedurally) create complex events and the precise relationships between events. StoryDB’s event model describes an event in terms of what is happening, when and where it is happening, who its participants are and why it is taking place. StoryDB is an open source project maintained at GitHub.

Semantic Modelling of Narrative Events

Tue, 17 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Semantic modelling of narrative events with accompanying interactive 3D environments.

Blender 2.8

Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

My first steps with Blender 2.8.

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