[topicmapmail] Generating TMs out of relational Databases / How To?

[Andreas Fleck]

Thanks for your answer Murray.

I will try to lay my hands on the XML Topic Maps book you recommended and
try to get it through our library.

Can you maybe give me a short idea what visualization techniqués there are
out there?

I am concentrating on TouchGraph and Hypergraph at the moment.

Are there maybe another ones which i should take a look at?

greetings
Andreas


> 
> Andreas,
> 
> No, I think that is much clearer, and provides a starting point
> >from which one could begin to design what would show up in the
> XTM document, and perhaps which tools would be most suitable for
> processing the result. Even knowing the volume of information
> helps decide which tool is appropriate for visualization, as
> some are suited for small numbers of Topics (as in elucidating
> a model), whereas others are for showing trends. You might want
> to check out some of the chapters in the 'XML Topic Maps' book,
> edited by Jack Park, for ideas. There's chapters providing a lot
> of background on the Topic Map model, one on visualization by
> certainly the most glamorous of the Topic Map community, Benedicte
> Le Grand (though Steve Newcomb's pate comes in a close second),
> and several with good use case-style examples.
> 
> Murray
> 
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