Hi, I would start by creating a single .org document that contains all the key attributes you want to preserve from your current database to the one that would be inside of Pharo. Then I would try to import it to Leo and save it as a .leo file (which is just XML). Then I doulw use the XML reading tools in Pharo to explore such document and to see which elements can be stored into Grafoscopio. I think that most of the scaffolding is already there: nodes with headers, tags, body and parent/children relationship. Also Ston already provides what you need for a simple storage outside the image for your new imported documents. We have complex books, like the Data Driven Journalist Handbook[1], contained in a single Grafoscopio notebook, occupying just 600Kb. [1] http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/mapeda/ After that I would to to Syre and Moose, following Ben's timely and wise advices, as usual. Cheers, Offray On 23/03/18 06:51, Hajo Dezelski wrote:
Hello,
thanks to all for the pointers you offered. They were more than helpfull.
So I will give it a try:
Grafiscopio seems to be a very good tool to get started with my project . So I will focus first to get my text database into the image. I have to convert the *.org files to *.ston. A way could be via the Leo-editor and Python. But I have to study the *.ston datastructure, to see what is in the box.
When this is done I will explore Syre and the Moose-Algos Information Retrieval. But this is a long way to go.
I will report.
Thanks again and have a nice weekend.
Cheers Hajo
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