Re: [tm-pubsubj-comment] ISSUE 10 - PSIs "name" "subject" and"description"

[Steve Pepper <pepper@ontopia.net>]

At 15:38 24/04/02 +0000, Murray Altheim wrote:
>>dc:subject is unnecessary on PSIs. We only need its equivalent
>>on PSI sets. (See separate posting, on ISSUE 9, proposing to call
>>this "keywords", to avoid confusion.)
>
>Huh? I would have thought this one of the more *important* ones.
>Why would we only want this on sets? Individual PSIs have a subject.

Of course every PSI indicates a subject (in topic map terms). That's why we 
have them. But what would it mean to have a metadata property called 
"subject" on a PSI? What would be the value of that property?

Steve

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