[topicmapmail] Collaborative construction of TMs

[Alexander Nakhimovsky]

Lars, thanks, this is helpful.

>| How would one integrate the information of the Architecture TM into
>| the Opera TM short of merging the two?
>
>Why would you not want to merge the two? Because the Architecture TM
>contains lots of stuff that is not interesting in the Opera TM, such
>as Tower Bridge, the Eiffel tower, and so on?
>
>If so, the way to do it would be to use some application that can
>extract a fragment of one topic map (so that you could pull out
>certain topics from the Architecture TM with all necessary information
>and typing topics) and then merge that with the Opera TM. That should
>work just fine.

This was really my question. I was hoping for some equivalent of SELECT
and JOIN in the Topic Map world. Perhaps, if the operation is implemented
in a generic way (e.g., by a bean that knows nothing about the subject
matter of the TMs involved) then the implementation can be reused in
multiple contexts.

Sasha

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