academic-research-wiki

To build a source-grounded literature review wiki, ingest Obsidian Web Clipper markdown exports and paper PDFs to create linked pages. The wiki uses YAML frontmatter for metadata and a centralized source registry to track all ingested academic sources.

You can convert academic paper PDFs to Markdown for knowledge management by processing them through MarkItDown during ingestion. This creates readable, linked markdown pages that extract theories, constructs, methods, and findings while separating explicit claims from inferences.

Evidence traceability in an academic knowledge base is the continuous linking of extracted research elements back to raw source materials. It ensures that theories, mechanisms, and findings tracked in markdown pages maintain provenance to their original paper PDFs or web exports.

Yes, you can use Obsidian Web Clipper exports for academic literature reviews by ingesting them directly into the knowledge base. The system applies canonical naming to raw sources and tracks ingestion status in a central registry to organize web-captured content.

Yes, this knowledge management workflow explicitly separates source claims from agent inferences. Extracted research elements like constructs and mechanisms are organized with transparent provenance, ensuring distinct boundaries between original paper claims and analytical additions.

You should use a markdown wiki for mechanism tracing and theory building when you need to cross-link theories, constructs, and methods across multiple papers. It provides a persistent, searchable structure that tracks source versions and maintains evidence-ready sections.