On Monday, Oct 13, 2003, at 15:12 Europe/Rome, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
Le Lundi, 13 oct 2003, à 14:57 Europe/Zurich, Stefano Mazzocchi a écrit :
...Some form of topic map would be useful to build "what's related" info though, which helps navigation and discovery a lot.
Yes, but such a topic maps would have to be human edited. this is what scares me. tools for ontology creation (like Protege, http://protege.stanford.edu/ for example) are available but are *incredibly* complex to to use.
I was thinking of something simple, I think even just "broader term (BT)" / "narrower term (NT)" relationships (like in a thesaurus) would help find a lot of related stuff, conceptually something like:
cocoon NT: sitemap sitemap NT: matcher NT: sitemap configuration matcher NT: matcher pattern
This would be an XML file from which a Generator could build a bidirectional tree of narrower/broader terms. Clearly not a full-blown topic map, but lightweight and easy to improve incrementally, we could start with a limited set of terms and already have something useful once learning objects are connected (by numerical IDs if we want this to be solid) to relevant terms.
But this is something that needs to be tested on a prototype to see how useful/easy it is.
sound good to me.
-- Stefano.
