{"id":385,"date":"2004-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/04\/13\/318\/"},"modified":"2004-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-12T22:00:00","slug":"318","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/04\/13\/318\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it so hard to lean topicmaps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Van Dijck asks: <a href=\"http:\/\/poorbuthappy.com\/ease\/archives\/002673.html\" title=\"Peter Van Dijck's Guide to Ease: Why is it so hard to lean topicmaps?\">&#8222;Why is it so hard to lean topicmaps?&#8220;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Topicmap tools are at the topicmap level, not at the real-life usefulness level. In other words, topicmap tools let you manage, create, and merge topicmaps. But they don&#8217;t let you do anything specifically useful outside of the topicmap realm (like create a simple application for managing your CD&#8217;s, like Access lets you do).<\/p>\n<p>The level of abstraction of topicmaps is higher (which provides great Power and Flexibility) than that of databases. But that means that, to get from a topicmap to a useful application, you need more stuff in between.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Van Dijck asks: &#8222;Why is it so hard to lean topicmaps?&#8220; &#8222;Topicmap tools are at the topicmap level, not at the real-life usefulness level. In other words, topicmap tools let you manage, create, and merge topicmaps. But they don&#8217;t let you do anything specifically useful outside of the topicmap realm (like create a simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}