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Subject: [tm-pubsubj-comment] Re: [topicmapmail] ANN: UNSPSC topic map available
At 10:01 PM 10/14/2002 +0100, Kal Ahmed wrote: >On Monday 14 October 2002 21:15, Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > > * Kal Ahmed > > > > | For no particular reason other than "because it is there", I've > > | converted the Universal Standard Products and Services > > | Classification into XTM form and uploaded the results to [1]. > > > > Oh. You too? :-) > > > >Great minds... Kal, glad you see the importance of this too :-) > > | For those that don't know the UNSPSC is a standard hierarchical > > | classification of commercial products and services and, according to > > | the publishers "is used in sell side and buy side catalogs and as a > > | standardized account code in analyzing expenditure (Spend > > | Analysis)." [2]. > > > > Mary Nishikawa uses it in her paper from Extreme 2002: > > <URL: > > http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme02/html/2002/Nishikawa01/EML2002Ni > >shikawa01-toc.html > > > > >Great minds... Many "great" minds together = progress? ;-) This talk developed from countless discussions with Lars Marius and a year of discussions with the OASIS TM Published subjects members (see the credits in my paper). Kal, we welcome you :-) Actually Jack Park came to my talk, and he asked that I write a chapter for the next Advances in Topic Maps book - (this is what he meant by "portal integration" with topic maps -- Jack's description of what I will be writing on). You will be writing a chapter too, right? Great minds together :-) I am hoping that my Late Breaking News talk for XML 2002 is accepted because I am expanding on the ideas presented in my Extreme Markup paper. The UNSPSC was only the beginning and the point was to show that a standard "upper level" and generalized scheme can be used a central location for others to "pick up" binding points to use in their own maps of internal use subjects; I want to have fixed published subjects for the UNSPSC and publish them in a fixed place. It would be a good idea for the owners of the classification, the ECCMA, to do this, as I said in my talk, but we may need to first publish it in http://psi.oasis-open.org The UNSPSC is used by web services, so I am sure you see the importance of this. The Library of Congress could very well do the same thing. > > | Lacking any form of suitable subject indicator I have opted to > > | create a private urn namespace x-unspsc. Perhaps someone on this > > | list could suggest a better way to provide useful subject indicators > > | for this map ? > > > > What about the old tired-and-true method of http URIs that point to > > nowhere? I feel that is better than making new URI schemes > >I've done that an awful lot in the past and I feel guilty about it. My >feeling >(now) is that at least one knows where one stands with a made-up URN >namespace. There is no way of resolving it, so there is no possibility that >by resolving it a subject descriptor would appear. In other words it serves >as a simple identifier (unfortunately not necessarily a unique identifier, >but I suppose I could use urn:x-techquila.com:unspsc: on the basis that >fewer people are going to use the x-techquila.com namespace in their made-up >URNs). Kal, see my paper and the work of the committee. Cheers, Mary *********************************************************** Mary Nishikawa, EDMS Technical Advisor Schlumberger K. K. 2-2-1 Fuchinobe Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-0006 Tel: +81-42-759-5376 Fax: +81-42-759-3563 Schlumberger Eureka XML BB Manager, xmlbb@slb.com ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34, Japan OASIS TM Pubsubj TC, GeoLang TC, XMLVoc TC ************************************************************
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