Re: Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web

From: Dobbs, Aaron <AWDobbs_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:24:26 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:44 PM Jonathan Rochkind said:

> ... BUT once someone HAS established a work for The Conquest of 
> Bread and filled in it's subjects, I shouldn't _have_ to go
> assigning subjects every time I make a new manifestation record, 
> should I?   I should be able to inherit from that work, such 
> that when the work subjects are changed (someoen does a better 
> job), my manifestation knows that too.

As long as the domain tree is additive at each level, I hope this comes to pass -- however, the option to recursively remove your (or other, prior) assigned subjects, and thereby affect other folks' records, should make people uncomfortable.  

-Aaron
:-)'

Aaron Dobbs
Systems & Electronic Resources Librarian
Shippensburg Univeristy of Pennsylvania
Received on Wed Oct 21 2009 - 16:26:28 EDT