Gentlemen, I just want to add if there has not being a database model before, tiddlywiki is an ideal platform to model any relationship. Of late I have endeavoured in any application to never compromise the ability to add an additional layer of organisation, an alternate view or a different simultaneous representation. An old line "not taking hostages of the future" my father quotes, is reinvented by me to "Not taking decisions that compromise the future" is an interesting approach on top of tiddlywiki especially when looking at alternate database or knowledge models. As one proceeds to "try different systems" on top of tiddlywiki we gain practical experience with a kind of meta database systems view.
One Idea of my own that may be of interest, not withstanding Charlies love hate relationship with hierarchy ,is the following model I am keen to experiment with. - Every object is a tiddler - Every object is in a hierarchy, even if it begins with only one - Every attribute is a relationship to an object in another hierarchy - Hierarchies act as I kind of "fuzzy value" where with more information the hierarchies go deeper as they grow - When assigning an attribute a value you do so via a relationship to a hierarchy if you find it you use it, if not you add it, - If you do not have a detail ie it is coloured but no what color it is you point to an item in the color hierarchy such as color - or unknown colour. - Should you come across a database of colors you use it to populate the colour hierarchy, and where possible change items pointing into the hierarchy you move the relationship to a less fuzzy member of the hierarchy. - People, a group, a process can take charge of a hierarchy and do as they wish as long as the honour or improve the relationships already codified. Just some thoughts Tones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/839a18c4-5bb4-46f7-98cf-f4bfa9b1de4fn%40googlegroups.com.
