At 03:10 PM 9/13/01 -0700, Eric Armstrong wrote:
> Another, applicable in hierarchical settings, is to what
>tree
>structures eventually did -- show additional detail while retaining
>surrounding
>context.
>
>In a graph structure that means expanding:
>
> A
> +--+
> | |
> +--+
>
>to:
>
> A
> +----------------+
> | B C |
> | +--+ +--+ |
> | | |-->| | |
> | +--+ +--+ |
> +----------------+
>
>At that point, it will be possible to browse hierarchical graph
>structures.
>(On the other hand, I remain unconvinced that the amount of text
>necessary for a useful discussion can be usefully represented with any
>graphing mechanism.)
>
Which is really the same as:
A
A to / \
/ \
B-->C
This (with a bunch of complications) is the way that I intend to initially
implement locality. My idea is to initially implement locality browsing
for just associative relationships. As far as hierarchies go, a much
better approach, can be gathered from this
picture: http://www.touchgraph.com/clustermap.jpg and this applet:
http://historywired.si.edu/index.html
Otherwise, why can't a graph contain the right amount of text necessary for
a useful discussion.
Think of the vertical list of email subjects that you get when looking at
your email, or a yahoo group. This could certainly be represented as a
graph. Especially since the number of messages that you would actually be
interested in referring to, is around 20 or so. (Don't criticize this right
away, it might be vague, but I know what I mean, and can explain).
Now I am not suggesting that text actually be written in graph
form. Nothing so far out as saying that each word should have a node to
itself. No, I am proposing something more along the lines of viewing the
email in a separate window, sort of like TheBrain. (Have you used this
interface by the way, or just glanced at it?)
Finally, to make the discussion more granular then one email per node,
purple-numbers, or some other way of tagging each paragraph in an email,
could be added. Then, summaries, or node names, could be created for each
part of the email, and a special graphical notation could be derived to
show the email and its components as some sort of star tree (i.e. a root
with a bunch of leaves).
So there. I don't know. All this seems very practical and grounded to me.
--Alex
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