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Tutorial - Michael 14/01/2013

Reoccurring characters in different emails, create connections between stories told over the different emails. These relationships and interconnected stories deserve to be explored, as out of the relationships a narrative begins to begins to be sketched.

Characters Model

adding a model for characters

CHARACTER
name
stories

THE LINK TABLE

  • could have more information: like the role played by a character in the field; the misspelled names given to the same character ) - links that have properties
  • many to many relationship
  • server cross-referencing
stories = ManyToMany(Story, ..., through=Role) 

thoughts

  • using the table as writing environment

from a mathematical model to literature

  • repurposing the database, outside its infamous data tracking and surveillance aspects.

the relational model in a writing sense


necessity for a search function

  • django haystack - for search functionality