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Subject: Re: [topicmaps-comment] Good PSIs never die
Bernard, >If it is what you have in mind, yes, the TC recommendation *as is* slams >the door to such >an eventuality, by saying that subject indicator has to be human-readable. >And I must >admit that the above eventuality we have not thought about so far. > >So the question is now. Do we extend the recommendation to use cases where >human-accessibility and human-readability of subject indicators would be >irrelevant, and >subject indicators should be machine-readable? I'm sure someone outthere >will imagine such >use-cases. If yes, we have either to open the recommendation to such >eventuality, or >declare clearly it is out of its scope. For PSIs which are generated from some source of information about subjects such as a database, is it reasonable to also require that a human-accessible version of the data be available ? I am thinking of examples such as a catalog or a set of personnel records - perhaps the topic map system wants to uniquely identify these subjects (e.g. PSIs based on an ISBN ?) Cheers, Kal
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