*(reposting as a new topic, which I thought I did, but somehow failed to
:))*
Hi,
Reacting to a recent message from Mat stating :
> good elemental best practices in tiddlywiki, like the no compound tiddler
> title
In my use case, I couldn't do without compound tiddler title, i.e. titles
prefixed by their types.
Any recommendations about how to improve my data model and data exploration
solutions ?
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*My use case*
My use case is about multidisciplinary knowledge acquisition, exploration
and consolidation.
I am dealing with the following tiddler categories:
1. *Source*, information source - ex: "so An Analysis of Kant's Critique
of Pure Reason -- by author X"
1. tagged with Domain(s), Thinker(s), Topic(s)
2. *Domain*, Domain of Knowledge - ex: "do Philosophy"
1. recursively tagging sub (sub (sub...)) domains, to form a tree of
domains,
2. the head of domains being called "do Domain"
3. *Thinker*, the producer of the views in question - ex: "th Kant"
4. *Topic, *the subjects discussed - ex: "to Reasoning", "to
Enlightenment", ...
5. and *Notes, *summaries of the views exposed in the sources
1. main note tagged with the source
2. other notes tagged with it's father note (classical tagging way to
deal with large information)
3. thus all these notes about this source form one / several tree(s)
of notes all going up back to the source
4. if a specific note is about a specific Thinker, Field or Topic,
that is not already mentioned in the source, then it is tagged with these
specific tags.
*At first: no compound titles, just tagging*
At first, all topics were tagged by Topic, all sources by Source, etc. and
titles didn't contain a prefix.
But when I wanted to explore categories (i.e. main tags) all the data was
mangled in the simplest data exploration tool I knew : the table of
content, as in
<<toc-selective-expandable "Domain">>
- includes all the domains and subdomains and subsubdomains in a nice
tree view
- but also all the sources (indeed tagged by domains)
- and all the notes (indeed tagged by sources, and by domains)
- ...
and I did't want that. I just wanted to explore Domain names, and get more
information only when I click on a specific domain name.
*Then: compound titles + tagging for visual separation*
To solve the above issue I thought : OK if data get mangled, but at least I
want elements to be clearly grouped in the TOC display.
*Prefix* + alphabetical sort made it work. With the same
<<toc-selective-expandable
"Domain">>, I was better. I had all the sub *do*mains listed, then *th*inkers,
then *to*pics, *so*urces. And notes in between these groups, because they
had no prefix. At least I could easily find my subfields.
*Then: compound titles, no tagging for the expected result*
No more sources tagged with Source, thinkers tagged with thinkers, etc.
Only using prefix to indicated the category.
One exception: Domains, because they are a tree. So each domain was tagged
by its parent domain, and the top domains were tags as "do Domain".
With <<toc-selective-expandable "do Domain" "prefix[do ]">>, I could have
the table of content display I was looking for : domains and subdomains,
subsubdomains, etc.
*So....*
Are there any TW benefits I am missing with these prefixes and lack of main
tags categories (no Topic, no Source, ...) ?
And could I have dealt with my issue in a better way ?
Best,
Eric N.
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