[TopicMapsInLIS] multiple authors

[Iglesias, Edward G. (Library)]

Thanks to Lars and all who answered.  I've never used the database
backend before but it looks promising.

Edward Iglesias 
Systems Librarian 
Central Connecticut State University 
860.832.2082 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Marius Garshol [mailto:larsga at garshol.priv.no]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:52 PM
> To: Iglesias, Edward G. (Library)
> Cc: topicmapsinlis at ligent.net
> Subject: Re: [TopicMapsInLIS] multiple authors
> 
> 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.