[topicmapmail] Querying Large Topic Map

[Chattun Lallah]

Hello All,

I am working on a Project which consists of representing multimedia
information into Topic Maps.
 
Considering the amount of information we can extract from multimedia
objects, the size of the topic map is expected to group with thousands
of concepts being continuously added to it.

I would like to get your opinions regarding the best way of querying
such topic map. If you have specific links regarding hibernating the
topic map into a database and querying, I will appreciate if you can
post it.

Many thanks

Best Regards,

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Chattun Lallah
Research Assistant,
Intelligent Media Systems & Services Research Laboratory (IMSS)
Department of Computer Science
School of Systems Engineering
University of Reading,
Whiteknights,
RG6 6AY, UK

http://www.imss.reading.ac.uk


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[mailto:topicmapmail-bounces at infoloom.com] On Behalf Of Peter P. Jones
Sent: 01 March 2007 10:18
To: topicmapmail at infoloom.com
Subject: Re: Interoperable Logging WAS: Re: [topicmapmail] Questions
AboutXTMOccurrence Semantics

Hi Dmitry,

Dmitry wrote:
[...]
> We can have an additional topic map (provenanace topic map) in which 
> topics correspond to Items from "domain level" topic maps.
> These topics use "domain level" Item Idintifiers to refence back to 
> constructs from "domain level" topic maps.

I'm not sure I understand that properly.
Is it like:
Top level - topics for TM item constructs: topic item, association item,

occurrence item...etc.
Then occurrences of those top level topics refer to particular items in 
e.g. user topic map.
Then each, e.g., occurrence from the top level map pointing at 
information items of the user topic map is reified, and then metadata 
attached to the reified topic.
Is that roughly what you mean?

> If you design a topic map engine, I would recommend to incorporate 
> provenance information inside of your data model (kind of TMDM
extension 
> at implementation level). In this case, at any time, you can export 
> extensions as a "provenance topic map"  in XTM

Yes, my thinking is heading that way. For one thing it is easier to cope

with the messaging.

Thanks,
Peter

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