Automatic Metadata Generation Using Associative Networks by Marko A. Rodriguez.
An early (2005) presentation by Marko on associative networks.
Great presentation!
March 5, 2012
June 26, 2011
Hickey and the Associative Data Model
Rich Hickey Q&A by Michael Fogus appears in Code Quarterly, The Hackademic Journal.
The interview is entertaining but I mention it because of Hickey’s remarks on associative models, which reads in part:
When we drop down to the algorithm level, I think OO can seriously thwart reuse. In particular, the use of objects to represent simple informational data is almost criminal in its generation of per-piece-of-information micro-languages, i.e. the class methods, versus far more powerful, declarative, and generic methods like relational algebra. Inventing a class with its own interface to hold a piece of information is like inventing a new language to write every short story. This is anti-reuse, and, I think, results in an explosion of code in typical OO applications. Clojure eschews this and instead advocates a simple associative model for information. With it, one can write algorithms that can be reused across information types.
Topic maps are about semantic reuse.
Comments Off on Hickey and the Associative Data Model