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Subject: Re: [topicmaps-comment] TAO vs. ERA
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:29:05PM +0100, Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > Not "specialization of", but "instance of". Specialization is the same > as subclassing, which is something else entirely. This means that lars-marius (person) # using instanceOf here is an appropriate use of instanceOf and person (living-being) # also here is not? Then obviously the thinking to add <instanceOf> in the first place http://www.doctypes.org/xtm/syntax/Ontopia-syntax-comments.html#TOPIC was to facilitate 'down-stream' topic map authors, i.e. those who already have an ontology around and should only fill this with 'instances'. And this means that ontologies should use a dedicated association of type http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/#desc-class-instance ? Interesting. \rho
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