[topicmapmail] Wiki/WebLog application built on top of topicmaps...

[Anthony B. Coates]

** Reply to message from "Guy Murphy" <guy.murphy@easynet.co.uk> on Wed, 15 Jan
2003 11:54:49 -0000

Dear Guy,

> While what you suggest will filter the links it wont really filter them in
> any manner that changing one participants role from "topic" to "blind-topic"
> wont, and it adds and extra association to manage... and that's the crux of
> the issue... with your suggestion the user would still be left with a couple
> of hundred "hidden-because-user-is-not-interested" associations to manage,
> and I'm still going to be left hiding those associations as a special case
> and left deciding how to manage them as a special case.

You are completely right that roles are the key to understanding the
directionality (in both directions) of topic map associations, and there is no
reason why "blind-topic" could not be a subclass of "topic".  However, I don't
understand how omni-directional associations make the management any easier at
all.  They still exist in the system, so someone still has to manage them, and
presumably the user cannot, so the ball is left in your court.  If you hide
uninteresting bi-directional links from the user, then they cannot manage them,
and the ball is equally in your court.  I really cannot see a difference in
practical terms.

	Cheers,
		Tony.
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