[topicmapmail] TM for Linux desktop

[Murray Altheim]

Sam Hunting wrote:
[...]
> It would be nice to have a terminal that, rather than navigated the file
> system, navigated a topic map (with occurrences on the file system, or
> elsewhere). I proposed (and to some degree implemented) such at:
> 
>     http://www.etopicality.com/public_presentations/KT_2002/14.html
> 
> One nice thing about this approach is that it gets one thinking about how
> to administer the topic map (a "Topic Map Management System" ;-) as one
> would administer a linux system -- for example, there are probably some
> parts of the topic map that you would not want to allow users to edit or
> perhaps even view; the idea of users with privileges seems relevant
> here...
> 
> Interestingly, there is a similar effort (and written by a real
> programmer!) in the XML world called XSH:
> 
>     http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/07/10/kip.html
> 
> which is a shell for navigating XML documents. How much nicer to navigate
> the topic map graph -- and how productive it might be.
> 
> Probably these thoughts are OT, but nice to see some lateral thinking on
> how to get topic maps very broadly adopted.

Sam,

Are you thinking command line or thinking GUI? A lot of Ceryle's
functionality is command line operable, from XML validation and
well-formedness checking, LTM and other format conversion to XTM,
etc.  If you meant command line, is there something specific you
had in mind? Editing seems a bit difficult, but perhaps query if
we had a query language, etc.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK               .

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