[topicmapmail] graphic language for describing TopicMaps

[Jan Algermissen]

Hi Stefan,

if you have classified most of your subjects (and are not using
multiple classes per subject) consider using usual ER diagrams
for your problem. Although the classification you express when
doing so is not part of your information structure abstraction 
of your data (since you use TMs) it is a very intuitive (and well
known) way of documenting your model.

Use relations for association types as well, they are a 100% natural
fit anyway.

Hope that helps.

Jan



Stefan Lischke wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm just writing a complete documentation about a content management
> system with topicmaps i builded. Therefore i have to describe a lot of
> topic maps and PSI sets.
> When i had done this work with plain XML, i could describe the data
> structure with XSD. But since there is no TMCL i have to do it in a
> visual way with digrams.
> But is there a standardised way of creating a digram which describes a
> topicmap or a topicmap typesystem which does not only include topics, it
> also includes association types with specified roles and cardinalities.
> 
> Should i use UML?
> How are you guys describing your topicmaps? Are you using rectangles for
> topics and circles for associations, how do you show that something is
> scopeable?
> 
> thanx
> stefan
> 
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