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Subject: Re: [topicmaps-comment] Good PSIs never die
Hi-- Actually, I posted to you privately so as not to get into a flame war ... Here's another question. S. [bernard] > I think that thread relevant to PubSubj should be continued on > tm-pubsubj-comments list. > > [Lars Marius] > > > We do need to be *really* clear on one thing: the subject > > > indicator itself (the resource, the text, the thing humans read) is > > > *only* for human documentation. It has no other purpose whatsoever. > > > When machines do merging they use the URI (also known as the subject > > > identifier, precisely for that reason). Since I'm still coming up to speed on this, let me ask -- The XTM 1.0 specification reads: Published Subject Indicator A subject indicator that is published and maintained at an advertised address for the purpose of facilitating topic map interchange and mergeabilty and Subject Indicator A resource that is intended by the topic map author to provide a positive, unambiguous indication of the identity of a subject. ... The subject indicated by a subject indicator may be either non-addressable or addressable. There isn't anything here about a subject indicator being ONLY for human documentation. (In fact, the above definitions definitely permit the intent of the author to be expressed by a statement in a machine-readable, controlled vocabulary.) So I'm confused. Is the OASIS PSI committee recommending the replacement of XTM 1.0 semantics for subject identity with new semantics? S. ===== <!-- Topic map consulting: www.etopicality.com Open source topic map toolkit: www.goose-works.org "A human is a topic map's way of making another topic map." --> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/
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