Re: TM/JSON first draft

Hi Robert, hi Miles,
Hans-Henning Koch has disclosed some thoughts on TM and CouchDB at TMRA 
2009: 
http://www.topicmapslab.de/publications/TMRA_2009_couchdb_and_topic_maps

Best,
Johannes

Am 24.08.2010 09:24, schrieb Robert Cerny:
> 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
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