Re: [regrep] [Topic Maps vs. RDF][Fwd: [egov] Re: [huml] The Office of Justice Programs's (OJP) Justice XML Data Dictionay]

["Carl Mattocks" <CarlMattocks@CHECKMi.com>]

Agreed (again) -
An API supporting RDF Triples should support any and all of the
proposed(Topic Map / OWL / Z395 )  interactions .

Indeed, it is envisioned that the validity of an RDF API approach will be
heavily debated by the members of the proposed  ebXMLRegistry Semantic
Content sub-TC.


<quote who="David RR Webber">
> Carl,
>
> Yes.
>
> But in the context of APIs - no reason why the one API mechanism
> cannot be the underpinning - just the content and query details and
> information returned will change depending on the task you are
> performing.  You may also have operations that are specific to
> a domain - so in Topic Maps you may have something like
> "getRelatedChildrenByContext()" that would have no meaning
> for other metadata access.
>
> Overall though you want a consistent way that this is all
> engineered so implementers are having to re-invent the
> same wheel multiple ways.
>
> Thanks, DW
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl Mattocks" <CarlMattocks@CHECKMi.com>
> To: <regrep@lists.oasis-open.org>; <egov@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 10:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [regrep] [Topic Maps vs. RDF][Fwd: [egov] Re: [huml] The
> Office
> of Justice Programs's (OJP) Justice XML Data Dictionay]
>
>
>> I agree with David's statement.  To fully support e-Business each type
>> of
>> interaction needs to be supported by an appropriate structure. Such as,
>>
>> Topic Maps to manage an index of content e.g. List of OASIS TC's
>>
>> OWL Ontology to allow an agent-based registry client to interrogate and
>> extract classified content e.g. OASIS Registry of Specifications
>>
>> RDF to declare how an ontology describing all the components of a
>> particular TC's  specification is related to the OASIS lists of Topics
>>
>> Z395 to define how the content of multiple federated registries /
>> catalogs
>> / repositories can be presented in one result set e.g. Melded content
>> from
>> OASIS Registry, Public UDDI
>>
>>
>>  <quote who="Chiusano Joseph">
>> > On the subject of Topic Maps vs. RDF: The e-mail below is from David
>> W.
>> > to the E-Gov TC, in May 2003 (I wanted to supply the URL, but the
>> E-Gov
>> > TC list archive is broken). Here, David states:
>> >
>> > <Quote>
>> > For eBusiness integration RDF is not the right tool.  It's
>> > more at home supporting topic maps in document
>> > management systems and networks of conceptual
>> > linkages and associations.
>> > </Quote>
>


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