From patrick at durusau.net  Thu Feb  2 13:13:00 2012
From: patrick at durusau.net (Patrick Durusau)
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:13:00 -0500
Subject: [sc34wg3] MongoDB and aggregation/merging
Message-ID: <4F2AD22C.5030305@durusau.net>

Greetings!

I will be posting about it later today but wanted to draw your attention to:

Hacking Chess with the MongoDB Pipeline

http://www.snailinaturtleneck.com/blog/2012/01/26/hacking-chess-with-the-mongodb-pipeline/

By Kristina Chodorow.

Kristina uses the new aggregation facilities of MongoDB to analyze chess 
games.

Aggregation is based upon uniform identifiers (chess pieces/moves) but 
the important point is that the analysis she presents isn't possible in 
the absence of aggregation (actual or simply keeping a mental tally).

I was thinking the what analysis is/is not possible in the absence of 
aggregation might be a fruitful topic of discussion.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Patrick

-- 
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Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
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From patrick at durusau.net  Wed Feb 29 19:36:47 2012
From: patrick at durusau.net (Patrick Durusau)
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:36:47 -0500
Subject: [sc34wg3] Mapping work item?
Message-ID: <4F4EC49F.9050105@durusau.net>

Greetings!

Sorry for the long silence.

I wrote a post today that may be of interest to the members of SC 34:

Graph Databases: Information Silo Busters
http://tm.durusau.net/?p=22342

Some of the more advanced graph database products, in this case 
InfiniteGraph 2.1, are starting to talk about persisting relationships 
across datastores.

It occured to me that persisting those relationships/mappings in an 
interchangeable fashion, would be something very much in the vein of 
topic map work.

The usual suspects of data types, ranges, etc., purely declarative, 
database/table/other structure names/locations, etc.

Would that be:

#1 of interest

#2 something you would like to contribute time/resources to

#3 something you already have

etc.?

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Patrick

-- 
Patrick Durusau
patrick at durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB) - member

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Homepage: http://www.durusau.net
Twitter: patrickDurusau