RE: [tm-pubsubj] Proposal to change name of TC

["Bernard Vatant" <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>]

100% agreed. In fact I had made this proposal at creation of the TC 3 years ago, with
exactly the same arguments.
Powers-that-be in OASIS (Karl Best) had pushed to keep Topic Maps in the title at the
time, for I don't remember now which marketing reasons ...

BTW I've been asked to contribute to a SWBPD document on Vocabulary Management, about
Published Subjects.

See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2004Oct/0148.html

Bernard


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Bernard Vatant
Senior Consultant
Knowledge Engineering
bernard.vatant@mondeca.com

"Making Sense of Content" :  http://www.mondeca.com
"Everything is a Subject" :  http://universimmedia.blogspot.com

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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Steve Pepper [mailto:pepper@ontopia.net]
> Envoyé : samedi 30 octobre 2004 12:39
> À : Published Subjects TC
> Objet : [tm-pubsubj] Proposal to change name of TC
>
>
> I would like to propose that we change the name of this TC
> to "Published Subjects TC" in order to emphasise that our
> mission is by no means limited to Topic Maps.
>
> The current name, "Topic Maps Published Subjects TC", is
> likely to be off-putting to people in the Semantic Web
> community, and to those at OASIS involved in defining
> XML vocabularies, such as UBL.
>
> The concept of Published Subjects has nothing to do with
> Topic Maps per se (although the ideas were first developed
> in that community). It is time to broaden our reach and
> to try and attract new blood. Removing the Topic Maps
> bias in the name would be one place to start.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
>
> --
> Steve Pepper <pepper@ontopia.net>
> Chief Strategy Officer, Ontopia
> Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3
> Editor, XTM (XML Topic Maps 1.0)
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