Your Lord of Darkness is back: Despair!

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This weekend I have commenced work on RDF::SKOS.

As most of you know, many have observed this before and larsbot has blogged about it in the past, SKOS is strikingly similar to Topic Maps, although in detail its semantics is much more limited. Interesting from a standards-political point of view.

There is yet no Perl coverage on CPAN. That has to change.

In an earlier life I was designer and developer of Internet shops. This was a time when Perl-o-saurs roamed the planet and the only game in web server town was "Apache with CGI". No mod_perl2 goodness, no MVC bloat, just good-n-old-n-slow CGI.

Ever since I met Jan Schreiber in Oslo a while back I had this itch that someone should write a C library for TMRM. Not only to host maps in proxy form, but more importantly to have a fast evaluation mechanism for myTMQL path expressions.

I was waiting for an opportunity to pack this into one of the paid projects, but that opportunity never arose.

I was still somewhat drowsy this morning when I entered my office. CatBert was already up and had occupied my chair. Curiously he browsed through my email and did not even take notice of me.

As I had yet too little energy to start another conversation I turned to the kitchen preparing the coffee. Only the soft "thump" sound coming from the office told me the CatBert had jumped off the chair and had followed me.

(continued from Part III)

Last time I left off with showing you how individual documents would be blended into a landscape which is computed from a topic map.

So far I have ignored the topological structure of the topic map itself and computed the landscape only from the terms within the documents. But my ultimate goal is/was to visualize whole topic maps, not just the text corpus.

Fixing bugs in Drupal PHP modules does not count as one of my favourite activities. Or as much as wading through a sewer system does.

Maybe it is just me, but I always get the feeling that the PHP programmer is on the verge of a complexity breakdown. Everything seems to take enormous efforts, there is no sign of airiness.

If there is then a whole infrastructure like Drupal together with the many different ways to install it, then the path issue (a.k.a.

Some of you still are under the naive illusion that I try to be funny with these posters, just to entertain you.

Do not fool yourself.

There can never be enough despair in this world:

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(continued from Part II)

The landscape we looked at last time only consisted of mountain ranges and valleys made up by the intensity and extensity of certain words (or word groups) within a set of documents. Documents which are all captured with a topic map.