A DeepaMehta 4 plugin realizing the use-case of tagging. This module allows users to tag topics. It comes with "auto-completion", allowing you to simply create and re-use (reference existing) tags.
It does so through introducing the Topic Type Tag (dm4.tags.tag) with which one can extend any DeepaMehta 4 Topic- or Association Type interactively.
You can download a bundle file for installation at download.deepamehta.de/nightly.
Copy the downloaded dm4x-deepamehta-tags-1.x.x.jar-file into the bundles folder of your DeepaMehta installation and restart DeepaMehta.
Note: The plugin comes with a custom renderer for many Tag/s, so make sure you configure Tags to be a "Child Type" of many, otherwise you won't see the auto-completion GUI.
Reveal the
Before you are able to start using Tags you must tell your DeepaMehta installation which type of information you want to tag. So here we go.
In this example we are going to enrich Web Resources and Notes about Tags so information of both types can share the same tags. This way our bookmarks and notes share the same taxonomy!
Reveal the Topic Type Web Resource (via "By Type"-Search). The Topic Type is also visible every time you select a Web Resource in DeepaMehta. In DeepaMehta 4 Topic Types always have a blue squared icon.
Whe you've selected the Topic Type Web Resource you additionally need to reveal the newly installed Topic Type Tag so you are able to associate both types with each other. To draw an assocation between two topics you can use the context menu (available via the right mouse button) above one of the topics. In our example the association between these two topics needs to be set up with the following details: The type of their relationshop is an Aggregation Definition and a Tag plays the Child Type related to a Web Resource which plays the Parent Type respectively.
An Aggregation Definition is just the expression for: "one single tag can be part of one or many web resources without being deleted when the web resource is deleted". So the Aggregation Definition is the correct choice for us here because it expresses that a tag "lives" independently from a web resource. When you select your newly configured association your screen should render exactly the following image.
To get the auto-completion field on your Web resources we must configure it to potentially reference many tags and therefore we just have to Edit the Topic Type Web Resource itself and set the value One (which appears next to Tag in the edit form) to the value Many. Ok, and we're done.
Congratulations! You just told DeepaMehta the way you would like to organize and think about a Web Resource. Each of your web resources can now also be made of Tags. And thus, a web resource tagged with many tags can be found under many different labels, or let's say: in more than one folder of your firefox bookmarks-toolbar when you're trying to find it. Done this, done that. Now you can do the exactly the same with the Topic Type Note. You can now start to re-use the blue Topic Type Tag in as manys other types of information in DeepaMehta 4.
Example: To setup this renderer as part of your model/migration you need to reference the dm4.tags.tag uri as an aggregated child topic of your composite topic. The easiest way to do so in an imperative migration would look like the following:
public class Migration1 extends Migration {
@Override
public void run() {
/** Enrich topicmap type `Web Resource` about many `Tag` fields */
TopicType webResource = dms.getTopicType("dm4.webbrowser.web_resource");
webResource.addAssocDef(new AssociationDefinitionModel("dm4.core.aggregation_def",
"dm4.webbrowser.web_resource", "dm4.tags.tag", "dm4.core.one", "dm4.core.many"));
}
}
This DeepaMehta plugin is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License in Version 3.0, 2007. You can find a copy of that here.
The label icon used by this plugin is "Free for commercial use" (Include link to authors website) and was designed by Freeiconsweb.
1.4.0, Mar 29, 2018
- Compatibility hack-mack release
- Removed a semicolon
- Bumped version number
1.3.12, Feb 06, 2018
- Compatible with DeepaMehta 4.9
1.3.10, Jul 26, 2016
- Assigns types to "DeepaMehta" workspace during installation
- Adds fulltext index to "Tag Name"
- Compatible with DeepaMehta 4.8
1.3.7, Nov 17, 2014
- Introduced service method to generate a simple tag-cloud
- Compatible with DeepaMehta 4.3
1.3.6, Feb 28, 2014
- Finally fixing "icon-missing" issue which was not fixed in the 1.3.5 commit.
1.3.5, Feb 28, 2014
- Fixes "icon-missing" issue introduced in 1.3.4
1.3.4, Feb 28, 2014
- Compatible with DeepaMehta 4.2
1.2, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3 - No information available
1.1, Mar 28, 2013
- Installing the
Tagbundle automatically assigns the TypeTagto the default workspaceDeepaMehta. - updated READMe to DMs new Child / Parent wording
1.1-SNAPSHOT, Feb 28, 2013
- extended Tag to be composed of a "Label" and a "Definition"
- updated screenshot documentation in README
Note: Users of previous version must reset their DB.
1.0, Dec 3, 2012
initialization of this plugin.
- containing a migration registering
dm4.tags.tag - a detailed readme containing a short modeling tutorial and an imperative migration example for developers
- upload of binary release
Author: Malte Reißig, 2012-2018