Geneldir

Geneldir is a term used to describe a hypothetical or fictional directory or data structure intended to organize general entity metadata across domains. It is not a standard specification, but rather a conceptual model used in academic examples, speculative discussions, and fiction to illustrate how cross-domain entity information might be stored and accessed.

Coined as a portmanteau of general and directory, geneldir emphasizes broad applicability rather than domain specificity. In discussions of future data architectures, it is often presented as a flexible, schema-tagnostic repository that can accommodate diverse entity types, from people and organizations to artifacts and concepts.

In typical conceptual models, geneldir treats each entity as a node with a set of attributes and assigns relationships as edges to represent connections such as hierarchy, equivalence, or composition. The design stresses flexible schemas, scalable indexing, and efficient querying across heterogeneous data. The goal is to enable discovery and reasoning about related entities regardless of their origin or domain.

Variants may be centralized or distributed, with support for either schema-less or typed attributes. Interfaces commonly include REST or GraphQL for access, and indexing structures such as inverted indexes or graph traversal algorithms to enable rapid searches and relationship queries. Access control and consistency models are chosen to suit the intended deployment, whether lightweight experimentation or broader collaboration.

Potential applications include digital libraries, metadata repositories, knowledge graphs, citation networks, and content management systems where cross-domain discovery of entities and their relations is valuable. Because geneldir is not an established standard, real implementations resemble existing technologies such as LDAP directories, RDF stores, or graph databases rather than a single unified specification. It remains primarily a conceptual reference in discussions of general-purpose entity directories.