Influence

The "Genealogy of Influence" documents influences between people throughout history. The people in the Influence domain are called Influence Nodes, as they have influenced or been influenced by other Influence Nodes.  A peer relationship indicates that two Influence Nodes were peers or collaborators. It is obviously a somewhat arbitrary decision whether or not an influence is significant or reciprocal. Movements, groups, schools, concepts, technologies, bands and television shows should not be added as nodes because they are not people; these should be added in as another schema. An influence connection from Person A to Person B indicates Person A significantly influenced Person B, in the area of their life work.  It should reflect more than a casual influence or general inspiration, otherwise the signal to noise ratio in the graph would diminish. Another schema should be created if one wants to indicate that one likes listening to Mozart or reading Kafka. The "Genealogy of Influence" is a project started in 2005 at http://mike-love.net/genealogy.