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Subject: Re: RDF/Topic Maps: what's an Application? (was: Re:[topicmaps-comment] RE: OASIS vs W3C)
On 27/09/2001 23:37:30 "Steven R. Newcomb" wrote: >I claim: >(1) A Topic Maps application can be an application of RDF. >(2) An RDF application can be an application of Topic Maps. >(3) Topic Maps itself can be an application of RDF. >(4) RDF itself can be an application of Topic Maps. Clearly there is a Turing Machine equivalence that applies here at the lowest level, so I can implement either topic maps or RDF using a suitably large abacus or a suitably organised barrel of monkeys (those little plastic ones I remember from my childhood). A couple of more interesting questions, to me at least, are 1. How much more difficult would it be to implement a topic map application using an RDF engine rather than a topic map engine, and what would I gain/lose in the process? 2. How much more difficult would it be to implement an RDF application using a topic map engine rather than an RDF engine, and what would I gain/lose in the process? Cheers, Tony. ======== Anthony B. Coates (1) Content Distribution Architect - Project Gazelle (2) Leader of XML Architecture & Design - Chief Technology Office Reuters Plc, London. Tony.Coates@reuters.com ======== ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
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