Hi Colin, thanks for your reply.

1) Yes a Resource can have multiple tags
2) I want to determine who applied a specific tag to a specific resource 
(could be more than one person). 

Multiple users may apply the same tag to the same resource, which is where 
I think your suggestion may not work to add a Person-Tag edge.

With the schema below I could work out:
* Who tagged a particular resource (any tag)
* Which tags are applied to a particular resource
* Which tags a person has used to tag resources
But, as far as I can tell, not which tags a specific person has applied to 
a specific resource, or which people tagged a specific resource with a 
specific tag.

-Phil

<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1razXFXH1SY/VQb0ZEjYguI/AAAAAAAAA-c/J5EhD0Dy7vc/s1600/db_graph.png>


On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 3:42:26 PM UTC+1, Colin wrote:
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> Two quick questions:
> 1) Can a Resource have multiple tags applied to it?
> 2) You want to be able to determine who created a specific tag, right?
>
> If my assumption is correct based on looking at your relational schema, I 
> would create an edge between the Person and the Tag directly.
>
> -Colin
>
> Orient Technologies
>
> The Company behind OrientDB
>
>
> On Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 1:25:16 AM UTC-5, Phil wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I'm just starting out investigating graph databases and OrientDB and 
>> I'm trying to work out how to best model this scenario:
>>
>> In my app a user can tag a resource but I also need to know who tagged 
>> which resource. In a relational database I would simply have a join table 
>> which can be used to discover which user applied a particular tag. In my 
>> initial attempt at converting this to a graph model I had 3 vertices for 
>> Person, Resource and Tag but couldn't work out how to define edges that 
>> allow me to determine which person applied a tag.
>>
>> All I could come up with is to add a fourth vertex to represent the 
>> actual tagging event ('Review' in the schema below).
>> Is this how you experts would handle such a scenario or is there a better 
>> way?
>>
>>
>>
>> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XbURlewkAcM/VQUgcnwlriI/AAAAAAAAA98/qObASq70RjA/s1600/db_schema.png>
>>
>>
>>

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