| 73 | 73 | Here's a new idea that in my opinion merges this idea with our own architecture. Create a super interface of !DataObject (Resource? - has a strong RDF association. Entity? - has other associations here at Aduna). !DataObject then gets a sibling named Folder. Crawlers do not only produce !DataObject instances, they produce instances of its supertype. This way, crawlers that crawl data sources with an intrinsic hierarchy can return Folder instances, which contain all metadata of the Folder, similar to how !DataObjects contain metadata of that object. Similarly, we can introduce other !DataObject siblings for capturing table- or graph-related metadata that is not specific to a single !DataObject. Crawler-using applications that have no interest in this information can simply ignore these events. Also, the crawler interface itself does not need to specify folder-/graph-/table-specific information. |
