Re: [egov] Re: Topic Maps vs. RDF

["Carl Mattocks" <carlmattocks@checkmi.com>]

Correct - I was referring to Z39.50 -
thanks for the clarification on its potential for supporting melded content.

<quote who="Eliot Christian">
> At 10:34 AM 1/5/2004 -0500, Carl Mattocks wrote:
>>[...]
>>Z395 to define how the content of multiple federated registries /
>> catalogs
>>/ repositories can be presented in one result set e.g. Melded content
>> from
>>OASIS Registry, Public UDDI
>
> I assume you are referring to Z39.50 here. If so, then I would
> point out that a "result set" is an ordered list of records that
> satisfy particular search criteria. The records themselves can
> be composed in whatever manner suits the need. Certainly the
> records can be composed of elements drawn from multiple sources,
> whether those had been centralized or distributed, and whether
> they had common structures or not. So, melding content from an
> OASIS Registry and Public UDDI is quite feasible in a Z39.50
> environment. Because Z39.50 itself is silent about how melding
> is to be accomplished, melding mechanisms are unconstrained.


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