A glimpse of the DC-X topic map engine
I have written before about the embedded topic map engine in DC-X. It’s not meant to be a standalone engine for generic use, but does a great job powering the lists, synonyms and thesauri in DC-X.
Until recently, the engine’s functionality had been hidden in the backend and exposed only through our PHP API, SQL, and the command line. But we finally had the time to implement basic topic editing in the DC-X administration interface. I’ve been a topic maps fan since 2003, so it’s been very exciting for me to actually build software based on topic maps (and getting paid for it)! Of course, everything’s still quite ugly, it’s not 100% topic map compliant and lots of features are missing (e.g., editing occurrences). But we’re working on it, and already rolling the first versions out to our customers…
Just two screenshots for those who are curious (I know that the content that’s shown doesn’t make much sense):
[...] On a long train ride yesterday I added a tiny but nice feature to the DC-X Topic Map Engine: As of DC-X 1.5.10, you can edit properties (“occurrences” in TM speak). (Classes, names, and associations have been possible before, see my earlier post.) [...]