On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 18:30, Dobbs, Aaron <AWDobbs_at_ship.edu> wrote:
> <topic id="245">
> <name type="#english">Title</name>
> <name type="#spanish">Título</name>
> <name type="#german">Titel</name>
> </topic>
>
> Different that what you're saying?
Yes, very; in Topic Maps, everything is a <topic> (and if you wanna go
completely abstract, nutty and datamodally-correct, so is is
associations, types, and occurrences; they're just special <topics>,
or shorthands, if you will), and the meaning of each topic is handled
through a proxy of other topics (through associations), types (topics
used as type) and occurrences (a special topic type). This is a meta
model in which you create your more specific model.
> Is the "245" moniker fairly standard?
The id attribute is completely up to any closed system to make up as
they go along, and is not something you can rely on. But, there's
hope. Names are pretty much ajour with titles and so forth, but the
topic at hand might be tht book you've got in your hand, Here's pretty
much the same;
<topic id="344573587345897">
<name>Some title</name>
<name type="#title-responsibility">some responsibility</name>
<name type="#title-form">letter</name>
</topic>
> Is it too abstract for mapping?
In and of itself, it's too abstract, but it doesn't require much to be
useful in a flash, and extendable, multi-lingual, mergable between
maps, XML (using good XML practices), and comes with serious identity
control through PSIs (Persistent Subject Indicators) ;
<topic id="111111">
<name>Some title</name>
<psi>http://some.server/some.work#34</psi>
</topic>
<topic id="222222">
<name type="#norwegian">En tittel</name>
<psi>http://some.server/some.work#34</psi>
</topic>
These two topics are the same PSI, and can hence be merged (the Topic
Maps standard have a given set of rules for merging) creating one
topic with two names. Imagine if you all did this, what collections of
merged topics we could have, merging collections or databases.
The joint ontology (all those #types floating around) fits nicely into
the DC SemWeb RDA-in-RDF efforts of Karen and her underpaid gang. In
fact, you could use it straight away. Anyone up for trying it out?
Kind regards,
Alexander
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