Re: TM/JSON first draft

Robert,

Thanks for your proposal which seems a pretty straightforward/sensible
way to achieve this aim. I think it may well have a lot of appeal to a
certain crowd. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Cerny

> um 09:19 schrieb David Damen:

>> I have found through experience that for some people the transition  
>> from a strict data representation format to a metamodel like Topic  
>> Maps can be quite difficult. I would expect that TM/JSON feels more  
>> natural to them.
>
> Yes, that is my experience too and this is my motivation. I also  
> doubt whether there is really a need to have Topic Maps in the face  
> when solving certain tasks.

Apologies if this is already answered... but all this talk of JSON makes
me wonder - has anyone implemented TopicMaps on top of CouchDB or
something like it. Any thoughts on whether such data stores are a good
fit for TM (Seems to me they would be).

If so, would it be possible to base this implementation almost entirely
on serializing back and forth this new TM/JSON stuff or is there a lot
of 'housework' that would also need to be done at a layer about CouchDB
for a real 'topic map engine' to work?


Miles