Cardano Knowledge Maps

Interactive knowledge maps of the Cardano ecosystem — governance, smart contracts, and more.

Live: https://lambdasistemi.github.io/cardano-knowledge-maps/

What is this?

A browsable graph that maps the relationships between entities, processes, and concepts across the Cardano ecosystem. Click any node to see its description and links to source documentation. Use Views to focus on a specific topic.

How to use

• Views button — switch between topic-specific lenses
• Click a node to re-center and see its description
• Hover an edge to see why the relationship exists
• Depth buttons (1, 2, 3, All) control neighborhood size
• Guided Tours — narrative walkthroughs per view

Architecture

This repo is data-only. The viewer is provided by graph-browser. CI validates and deploys with zero build tools.

Data files

The instance graph is split by topic; the runtime composes them through graphSources in data/config.json.

• data/rdf/cardano.ontology.ttl — Cardano domain ontology (OWL classes + object properties, W3C vocabularies)
• data/rdf/cardano.ttl — shared cross-cutting instance nodes (Plutus, Conway era, ExUnits, ...) referenced by both governance and smart-contracts focuses
• data/rdf/governance.ttl — CIP-1694 governance: actors, action types, processes, treasury, parameters
• data/rdf/smart-contracts.ttl — Plutus stack, languages, runtimes, dApps, Vasil features, Hydra L2
• data/rdf/budget-2026/*.ttl — one TTL per Cardano Budget 2026 proposal
• data/config.json — viewer configuration (kinds, colors, shapes, source labels)
• data/queries.json — SPARQL query catalog
• data/tutorials/ — guided tours

Contributing

Edit the topic TTL whose subject your statements concern. If a node is genuinely shared between focuses (referenced as a subject from one and as a target from another, or both), promote it to cardano.ttl. Edit data/queries.json for queries, data/tutorials/ for tours. CI validates schemas and RDF syntax automatically.

Disclaimer

Graph data was generated by AI based on publicly available Cardano documentation. Not formally reviewed or endorsed by any Cardano entity. Verify against CIP-1694 and Cardano documentation.