ToS: Trains of Sought is a term that describes a new approach to context in ontonlogies

Definitions

1. Context: Definition 1 (traditional, facets) There is one item -- normally a node in ontology graph, and one or more facets associated with the item. Facets function as context by making it possible to isolate a subset of search results. There need to be as many search queries as the are items that have to be found.

2. Context: Definition 2 (proposed, ToS) There are multiple items in each ontology node and there are multiple nodes. Context is a structure overlaying these nodes. One feature is the ability to browse the structure discovering new nodes and items in the process without having to issue new search queries.

History

Work in progress. Updates will be posted accordingly. Preliminary scripts are already in the folder with self-explanatory command line interfaces.