RE: [xtm-wg] Initial feedback on draft

[Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>]

> Steve and I will ensure that issues such as 'status of document' are
> all in line with AG minutes and wishes from Paris.

Does this include the titling of Annexes as normative vs. informative
as agreed upon in Paris? This is a huge issue and goes far beyond
personalities and politics.

Thanks!

S.

> cheers
> 
> graham
> 
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[mailto:sentto-1553146-1548-981139433-gdm=stepuk.com@returns.onelist.com
> ]On Behalf Of Sam Hunting
> Sent: 02 February 2001 18:35
> To: pepper@ontopia.net; gdm@empolis.co.uk
> Cc: xtm-wg
> Subject: [xtm-wg] Initial feedback on draft
> 
> 
> Steve/Graham/AG:
> 
> It reads well! Good job.
> 
> There are substantive (I hope) comments intermixed with copy edits.
> 
> The substantive issues are marked with "**" and remarks are put
> in square brackets []. Many of these are "consensus" issues.
> 
> Note that many of my substantive comments are directed to what I
> regard as nice-sounding but extremely bold, even wild, claims
> about ontologies, semantics, and the like.
> 
> I strongly believe that there is no consensus for these claims
> in the AG, and so they should be deleted from the spec before
> publication.
> 
> I'm afraid this is only as 2.3; more later.
> 
> S.
> 
> 
> status of this document
> -----------------------
> 
> a. "... is in an Authoring Group Review phase ..."
> 
> If so, then should not the title still read "TopicMaps.Org AG
> Review Specification", not "Draft Specification"?
> 
> b. "From that date until February 3rd, 2001" sounds like review
> is cut off on the 3rd. This does not reflect dates agreed on
> in Paris:
> 
> "The editor is instructed to produce an AG review XTM 1.0
> specification based on the Feb 3rd 2001 draft specification.  The
> deadline for this document is Feb 10th.  Ratification by the
> participating members will close on Feb 17th."
> 
> The text should reflect the minutes.
> 
> Origins
> -------
> 
> a. "chaired at the date of delivery of this specification"
> 
> The minutes read:
> 
> "Steve Pepper delegates chair duties to Eric Freese"
> 
> Should/need the text reflect this?
> 
> Terminology
> ----------
> 
> a. addressable information resource
> 
> An information resource whose identity is computable. (That is, a
> computer system can retrieve the resource and make deterministic
> comparisons between it, and some other resource, to establish
> their identity or difference.) An example of an addressable
> information resource is the online version of the document you
> are now reading.
> 
> Replace:
> 
>   of the document you are now reading.
> 
> with
> 
>   this document.
> 
> b. reification
> 
>   Delete
> 
>     within the terms of the topic map paradigm
> 
>   Replace
> 
>     within a topic map.
> 
> [Don't know what it means to "discourse
> within a paradigm." KISS]
> 
> 
> c. topic map node
> 
>   seems pointless to have nodes, but no graph. Delete?
> 
> 2. Concepts
> -----------
> 
> a. Concur with Bernard on unusefulness of "real[-| ]world" here
> 
> b. Concur with Bernard on *resources*.
> 
> c. "The assigment of such characteristics is said to be valid
> within a certain scope, or context."
> 
> Delete:
> 
>   , or context
> 
> "... at the time of its creation."
> 
> Append:
> 
>   Topic map authors may provide additional information to facilitate
> merging.
> 
> d. "gentle introduction"
> 
>   Delete throughout (titles and TOC):
> 
>     A gentle
> 
>   replace
> 
>     [A|a]n
> 
> 2.1 A Gentle Introduction...
> --------------------------
> 
> a. Well, if we MUST use reifies, let's work it in!
> 
> para starting "Because not all subjects"
> 
> Delete
> 
>   every topic acts as a surrogate for some subject
> 
> Replace
> 
>   every topic acts as a surrogate for (or *reifies*) some subject
> 
> b. para starting "It is often useful in"
> 
> Delete
> 
>   guide the compiler
> 
> Replace
> 
>   guide the author or indexer
> 
> c. para starting "It is often useful in"
> 
> Delete
> 
>   representation of relations among subjects
> 
> Replace
> 
>   representation of relationships among subjects
> 
> [no confusion with relation as in relational DB]
> 
> d. para starting "because associations express"
> 
> Disagree with Bernard regarding "real-world" here.
> 
> e. para starting "There is no"
> 
> Note that if the DTD is changed to allow no topics
> as members (IMHO wrongly) the final sentence will
> have to be reworked.
> 
> f. para starting "Becuase topics"
> 
> Delete
> 
>   topics and their relations
> 
> Replace
> 
>   topics and their relationships
> 
> g. para starting "We use the word topic map to denote"
> 
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