Re: DB schema -> graph, good strategies

Martin Christensen wrote:
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>Now, the database schema is often used as a basis for building a graph
>which is used in many very different ways to determine relevancy or
>rank results.

Using the schema for ranking? Sounds fascination. Can you explain how that works or give some references?

> The papers I've read are at best superficial on why they
>use the strategy that they do for building schema graphs. If
>primary/foreign key relationships map directly to edges, in which
>direction should they go, if they're directed at all?

The direction matters of course, but whether you want that information depends of course on what you want to do with the graph, so, er, what *do* you want to do with the graph?

• Jan Hidders