Re: Neo4j and Topic Maps

Murray,

I haven't looked at Graham and Kal's BrightstarDB, mostly because I 
would have to have a MS Server setup (as I understand it) and that I 
don't have. And probably not going to invest in the hardware/software to 
create such a platform.

If you have or can obtain access to such a platform, I would love to 
hear about BrightstarDB.

On Neo4j, I am curious what you think is required to write a "..new 
engine on top of Neo4j directly"?

Being mindful that I don't think of "merging" as re-writing anything but 
presenting results to a user as though rewriting had occurred.

That is one of the weaknesses of my diagram of a topic map tool chain. I 
under specified what would/could be done by a topic map engine.

BTW, using Neoj would not be implementing the TMRM. That could be, not 
necessarily would be, implementing a different data model with different 
rules, from the TMDM. Hopefully disclosed so that the results could be 
merged with the results of using other legends.

Hope you are having a great week!

Patrick

On 12/05/2011 06:21 PM, Murray Altheim wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Patrick has blogged rather extensively[1] on Neo4j[2] but I'm
> wondering if anyone has already started work on a Neo4j-based
> Topic Map engine, or a backend for an existing Topic Map engine.
> I realise I might make some people squirm if I suggested I was
> considering implementing a backend for TM4j (given its status).
>
> A more favourable idea might be implementing a backend for Ontopia
> or writing a new engine on top of Neo4j directly. The latter could
> be a lot more work and would fail to take advantage of all of
> Ontopia's other infrastructure but could also be more suitable if
> one only had a requirement for providing an engine, or if one were
> interested in implementing the TMRM instead of the TMDM.
>
> Anyone already started on something like this in open source, or
> planned open source? I hate to reinvent any wheels.
>
> Murray
>
> [1] http://tm.durusau.net/?cat=155
> [2] http://neo4j.org/
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