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Subject: Re: [topicmapmail] Re: [topicmaps-comment] Notions have existence .....
[Piotr Kaminski] > In other words: If I merge in a "correspondences" map (one that > expresses opinions about subjects being identical) from an author whom I > do not trust, what characteristics in the resulting model inform me about > the reason that topics got merged? There can't be any since, to speak > about topics being merged (with e.g. a "corresponds" association that has > multiple "sources" and one "target"), we would need to reference the > original topics which, be definition, no longer exist. > > I'm sure somebody will be kind enough to inform me if I've missed > something obvious. Or perhaps nobody cares about preserving information > about merges in a topic map? > Isn't this just what the megeMap element is for? So you can prevent inadvertent merges by assigning additional scopes to all the topics in the to-be-imported map? Then you could arrange so the processor could go ahead an merge the topics anyway, on a global or case-by-case basis. And the scope, being a topic, could have one or more occurrences that would capture the information that Piotr is talking about. Sounds very workable to me, although I haven't tried it. I'll bet Sam H. could say something about this, right, Sam? Cheers, Tom P
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