[TopicMapsInLIS] multiple authors

[Lars Marius Garshol]

Hi Edward,

* Iglesias, Edward G.
>
> I am considering doing a Topic Map project organizing all of the  
> documentation in our Systems Office.  One issue I am running into is  
> that I would like to have several people be able to contribute to  
> it.  I’ve used TM4L and Ontopia but they seem geared to one person  
> who has the map.  Can anybody share a process or software that might  
> be used collaboratively?

The Ontopia tools can certainly be used by multiple users  
simultaneously. You can try it by running two browsers, say Internet  
Explorer and Opera, on your machine against the same server. You'll  
notice that pages accessed by one browser are locked for the other.

We have several (don't have a count offhand) installations where  
Ontopoly is used in this fashion for production use right now.

Of course, it's better to use the relational database backend if you  
have multiple users, since you then get proper transactions and don't  
have to save the topic map to XTM and so on.

If you have more questions, please write to support at ontopia.net and  
we'll do our best to answer. I saw you sent this question there as  
well, but preferred to answer here in case others were curious about  
the answer.

--Lars M.