[xwiki-devs] [contrib] Page relations / graph application

Hi everyone, While the page relations application [1] introduced the ability to draw basic relations between pages outside the page content itself, a new branch I've been working on [2] implements "typed relations", for instance: "The Jungle Book" "has author" "Rudyard Kipling", where each of these items is represented by a page, and page "has author" itself has relation "is a" with page "Relation". It is similar to what MediaWiki extensions such as Semantic MediaWiki [3] or Wikibase [4] propose. A documentation draft covers the approach in more details in the XWiki development area [5]. Since the application data has an underlying graph structure, I was wondering whether we could use the name "application-graph" for it, considering also the current traction that graphs seem to have [6]. [1] https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Page%20Relations%20Ap… [2] https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-page-relations/tree/graph [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibase [5] https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/Graph%20Application [6] https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-02-18-gartner-ident… The branch code is now installable, it comes with a simple demo around Nobel Prize laureates. The typed relations are managed by dedicated Solr fields and the application implements a generic graph API that I came up with [6] because I couldn't find one with the needed features among the existing libraries such as Apache Giraph [7] or JGraphT [8]. [6] https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-page-relations/tree/graph/java… [7] http://giraph.apache.org/ [8] https://jgrapht.org/ What do you think about this approach? Do you have anything against adopting the name "application-graph"? Would it make sense in your opinion to host the graph API it contains under the xwiki-commons namespace? Cheers Stéphane