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Knowledge Abstract Tutorial

Build and maintain a domain-specific knowledge abstract.


What You'll Build

A production-ready knowledge abstract that: - Ingests documents incrementally - Supports versioning and backups - Provides query and search capabilities - Handles updates and modifications


Tutorial Overview

Step Topic What You'll Learn
1 Setup Project structure and template selection
2 Ingest Add documents to your knowledge abstract
3 Query Search, update, and maintain

Use Cases

Use Case 1: Company Knowledge Abstract

Centralize company documentation: - Policies and procedures - Technical documentation - Meeting notes and decisions

Use Case 2: Research Knowledge Abstract

Build a personal research database: - Academic papers - Notes and annotations - Cross-paper connections

Manage legal documents: - Contracts and agreements - Case files - Regulatory documents


Architecture

knowledge-base/
├── config.yaml          # Configuration
├── documents/           # Source documents
├── ka/                  # Knowledge base storage
│   ├── v1/             # Version 1
│   ├── v2/             # Version 2
│   └── current/        # Current version
├── backups/            # Backups
└── kb_manager.py       # Management script

Prerequisites

  • Hyper-Extract installed
  • API key configured
  • Collection of documents to ingest

Next Steps

Step 1: Setup