Re: TM/JSON first draft

Miles,

Am 24.08.2010 um 06:33 schrieb Thompson, Miles:

> 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.

Thank you. That is encouraging to put more energy into it. I will  
post some more concrete question regarding TM/JSON shortly.

> ...
> 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).

I recently came to a similar idea when reading up on the NoSQL  
movement: to use such a document database as a cache for a topic map  
engine (or any other statement oriented storage technology).

> 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?

TM/JSON documents and CouchDB seem to be a good fit. It would for  
sure need some 'housework. Yet alone to try it out and see where the  
difficulties are. I would start off using a Topic Map engine below.  
Although attaching to an engine later is also an option. I personally  
have never used CouchDB, but i can imagine it gets messy at a certain  
project and model size.

Robert