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Anomalierna

Anomalierna is an open project for documenting and investigating observations that do not easily fit established models of human beings, society, and nature.

What is the project?

An anomaly does not have to be supernatural or inexplicable. In science, many discoveries begin as anomalies: observations that do not match prevailing theories or expectations.

Anomalies can be found in scientific data, medical observations, technology, culture, or individual human cases.

What counts as an anomaly?

A person who demonstrates high function despite a diagnosis that would normally imply significant limitation can constitute an anomaly. An experimental result that recurs even though it does not fit the established model can be another. The same applies to social phenomena that appear repeatedly without being easily explained.

The purpose of the project is not to establish final answers, but to preserve questions.

To document anomalies is to acknowledge that our understanding of the world is always incomplete. Historically, many of science's most important advances began when someone took a deviation seriously instead of dismissing it.

Anomalierna is therefore an archive of things that deserve closer examination.

Not because every anomaly will change our worldview.

But because some of them can.

Method

All information in Anomalierna is stored in open YAML files.

YAML functions as the project's raw material: observations, categories, relations, comments, and fragments are stored in a format readable by both humans and machines.

The material can later be processed and rendered into different forms:

The published material is therefore not a finished product, but a living knowledge base.

YAML as source material

The website is only one possible view of the archive. The same source material can be versioned, reviewed, restructured, and rendered in other formats without rewriting the observations. 

source: yaml
principle: observations_before_conclusions
renderings:
  - web
  - reports
  - books
  - visualisations
  - knowledge_graphs
  - fragmented_library

Repository structure

Show structure 
anomalierna/
│
├── README.md
├── methodology.yaml
│
├── anomalies/
│   ├── perception.yaml
│   ├── medicine.yaml
│   ├── society.yaml
│   └── science.yaml
│
├── relations/
│   └── relations.yaml
│
├── categories/
│   └── categories.yaml
│
├── fragmented-library/
│   └── fragments.yaml
│
└── output/
    ├── web/
    ├── reports/
    └── books/