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Subject: RE: [xtm-wg] Knowledge management claims re XTM (and Topic Maps.. .)
Hi, I posted on the matter of (a) a while back (text inserted below), and wholeheartedly agree with (b). <from the earlier posting: Grandfathered public topics [was: lazy processing...]> >but we need some real basic stuff like simple logical expressions. Following some postings to the list, I had (a revelation) and an off-list discussion with Steve N and Michel about this. Topic Maps (ISO 13250) deliberately omit any logical stuff (e.g. operators and quantifiers, disjunction types, term equivalence and substitution rules, etc.) from the specification. This is because a Topic Map can (if you want) present a set of denotations needed for the terms of a set of logical expressions in whatever format/syntax those are expressed. That way it provides a resource to existing syntaxes for logical expressions like Knowledge Interchange Format without reinventing the wheel. Clever, eh? (I nearly fried my brain when I spotted that one.) </> cheers Peter -----Original Message----- From: Wrightson, Ann [mailto:Ann.Wrightson@sweetandmaxwell.co.uk] Sent: 23 August 2000 07:09 To: 'xtm-wg@egroups.com' Subject: [xtm-wg] Knowledge management claims re XTM (and Topic Maps...) Hi folks... I don't know if you discussed this at all in Montreal, but I am very concerned that XTM should encourage/facilitate good working-with t long-standing academic knowledge-engineering community by a) being (very) moderate and realistic in its claims for XTM *by itself* as a knowledge modelling technique - XTM's main strength could well be in providing the "hooks" which enable the wide range of established knowledge modelling techniques to link to Web resources, and also in providing simple exchangeable *static* representations of (some) such models; b) working with folks who have done eg semantic modelling for years, rather than trying to (re)invent ways of doing it without the benefit of that experience. This concern is based on back-of-room conversations at XML Europe, where I found myself trying to bring some experienced knowledge engineers "back down off the ceiling", and into a more realistically appreciative frame of mind regarding Topic Maps, after some rash claims from the podium... Cheers Ann W. To Post a message, send it to: xtm-wg@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: xtm-wg-unsubscribe@eGroups.com --------------------------------------------------------------------<e|- Thousands of Great Jobs, One Great Location! Austinatwork.com. Great Jobs, Great Life! http://click.egroups.com/1/7847/4/_/337252/_/967034850/ --------------------------------------------------------------------|e>- To Post a message, send it to: xtm-wg@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: xtm-wg-unsubscribe@eGroups.com
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