[topicmapmail] Creating Topic-Map-View of relational data

[Christoph Froehlich]

Hi Lutz,

I'm not fully convinced that we have what you are looking for,
but you may have a look a semantag[1]. It's a jelly[2] based set of
xml-tags to create topicmaps from a broad range of structured data
sources, including relational databases.

It's fully functional and I'm busy producing topicmaps with it (some
scripts are here[3]), but unfortunately there's currently neither a
release nor documentation.

In order to use it, you would need to grab it from cvs and check the
java-srcs for the attributes you can use. This sounds frightening but if
you have some java experience, it shouldn't be too hard to succeed.

If this sounds interesting for you, please feel free to contact me.

bye
Christoph
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[1]http://sourceforge.net/projects/semantag
[2]http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jelly/
[3]http://www.folge2.de/topicmaps/cities/scripts/cities.jelly
   http://www.folge2.de/topicmaps/cities/scripts/airports.jelly
   http://www.folge2.de/topicmaps/cities/scripts/universities.jelly

Am Donnerstag, den 25.11.2004, 14:20 +0100 schrieb
maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de:
> Dear readers,
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> I'm faced with the challenge to create Topic Map Views (governed by the T=
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> about relational data.
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> Therefore I need an interface which maps SQL-statements (the queries whic=
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> retrieve information from the relational data) into a list of "statements=
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> create a Topic Map View".
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> Unfortunately tolog (or TMQL) doesn't provide these kinds of "statements"=
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> the moment. Therefore I can imagine a mapping between the SQL-statements =
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> some TMAPI statements. (I have to access the produced Topic Map with the =
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> interface afterwards).
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> But before starting to develop my own approach I want to ask for existing=
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> experiences inside community which addresses these problems. I'm highly=20
> interested in reusing that expertise!  =20
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> Greetings from Leipzig,
> Lutz Maicher
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