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Old 01-16-2005, 11:12 PM
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I also like having different views of the same data. Not just different representations but with different information structuring the data, as with chronologies versus hierarchies and perhaps versus a network view, although I haven't thought much about that. I guess a network view would be like what I understand PersonalBrain presents.

What characterizes a view in this sense is the immediate transformation of the data from one view to the other, which requires in turn that each view contain the same information. What varies from view to view is the salience of particular information.

This differs from where different parts of a data structure are represented by means capturing different or partial information.

Stephen R. Diamond


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Originally posted by PureMoxie

Perhaps it is counter-productive to mix metaphors, but I always imagined the ideal information manager would allow multiple "overlays" on top of a common data store. For instance, viewing data as a chronology, a hierarchy, a network (web), a list, etc. as shifting needs dictate.
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