[topicmapmail] An Idea about TopicMap intelligent views

[Stefan Lischke]

Hi there,

Yesterday i discussed an old idea with a friend, and i want to know what 
you think about it, if this is an old idea or if you have further ideas.

Imagine we use a graphical TopicMap Viewer to view a really big 
TopicMap. My main goal is to avoid to much Topics to be shown at once so 
the user doesn't get crazy.

The TopicMap has a topic "hungry" the user clicks on it and see other 
topics associated with this topic.
The User clicks on the associated Topic "order".
Usually there will popup hundreds of topics which are associated with 
"order" for example books, houses, cars and so on.

Now the idea comes into play.
The way the user traversed the TopicMap affects the view of the topics.

So the user clicked on "hungry" first and then on "order", cause of 
metadata there arent books or houses displayed. There are just the 
things displayed which one can eat, which was speciefied by first click 
on hungry.

So the user traverse like:
hungry->order->pizza

I know this example may lack but i hope the main idea, that the 
traversal of the topicmap affects the view of the further traversal.


Stefan