[Sigia-l] Topic maps and IA

[Listera]

"Jonas Höglund" wrote:

> Does anyone have any input to this?
> * Is it doable?
> * Is the technologies and the methods behind them developed enough?
> * Is there enough of skills and tools developed?

Depends on where you're coming from.

If you're new to relational databases and creating data structures, you
might think all this stuff was invented in the last few years.

The basic notion of creating a virtual abstraction layer to have disparate
systems talk to each other indirectly has been around for many, many years.
A lot of this stuff is old hat to folks who have been doing virtual
file/storage systems, data mining, system integration through virtual APIs,
etc.

Terminologies may be different but the fundamental notions of relating and
intermediating data structures is pretty ancient, hence my earlier comment
about not reinventing the wheel if IAs want to build bridges to other
professionals.

This approach may not sell books/seminars/etc but it will let you
communicate more effectively with those who create and admin the corporate
data that you want to slice and dice.

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Ziya

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.