Project
PhiloRevol Chinese Philosophy Platform
A digital-humanities prototype combining timelines, text mining, knowledge graphs, and East-West comparison.
FastAPI · React 18 · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Neo4j · Elasticsearch
Product Snapshot
- Role
- Independent full-stack prototype development
- Users
- Philosophy learners, digital-humanities researchers, and readers who want concept relations connected to source texts.
- Stage
- Phase 0-1 research prototype; core interfaces and APIs exist, while data integration and de-hardcoding remain incomplete.
- Focus
- Timelines, semantic retrieval, topic models, knowledge graphs, PageRank, and East-West comparison.
- Validation
- Built 11 API route groups and 12 frontend pages across relational, graph, search, and cache layers.
- Public Proof
- Public repository, README, changelog, pages, and backend routes; the current stage does not claim a fully integrated corpus.
Next Step
Product question
Philosophy is often compressed into timelines, names, and schools. The more useful questions cross those boundaries: how does a concept change, and where do thinkers converge or diverge?
PhiloRevol creates an interactive digital-humanities entry point with separate exploration and research modes.
System structure
FastAPI organizes 11 route groups, while React 18 and TypeScript drive the frontend. PostgreSQL stores structured entities, Neo4j represents concept and text relations, Elasticsearch supports retrieval, and Redis provides caching.
The analysis layer connects Jieba, BERTopic, sentence-transformers, PageRank, sentiment, and topic analysis.
Implemented interface
The prototype includes 12 frontend pages across timelines, text mining, knowledge graphs, East-West comparison, and research workflows. Public source and changelog records preserve the current integration state.
Current boundary
This is not a production knowledge base with every corpus connected. Some pages still rely on staged data, and relationship completion plus de-hardcoding are unfinished. The deliverable is a system and research-interface prototype.
Design direction
The goal is not to summarize philosophy for the reader. It is to keep concept relations, primary-text evidence, and analytical methods visible at the same time.
Configure the public Giscus environment variables to open discussion on the public site.