Re: [tm-pubsubj-comment] Supporting the semantic web

[Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>]

Eric

Welcome to this forum. I find it good news the mere fact that you take the time to jump
in.
That we could already agree on 2/3 of the issues quoted by Lars Marius is even better news
:))

-- To defend a little "published subjects" term, that you find a misnomer for "controlled
vocabularies".
First, the acronym PSI has been coined, if not cast in stone, for quite a while by the
topic maps community, and is by itself now sort of part of the controlled vocabulary in
that community.
Second, there is a little more to it than in controlled vocabularies - addressability.
Last but not least, non-obvious but important considerations about subject,
identification, name ... over-documented by thousands of messages in various topic maps
and other "semantic" mailing lists.

In short: whatever concept represented by a term in a controlled vocabulary can pretend to
become a published subject. But not the other way round.

-- Concerning the purl mechanism. There have been suggestions in the TC in this direction
(singularly those by Mary Nishikawa). In fact we have many issues to figure before getting
to this point. We are more focused now on the content and structure of PSIs and PSI sets
than the URIs stability mechanism.

-- I agree this is certainly 80% political and 20% technical. But considering the
difficulty to figure out the 20%, I wonder about the time and energy we'll need to get
through the 80% ... anyway we are on the track :))

Stay tuned

Bernard

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Bernard Vatant
Chair - OASIS TM PubSubj Technical Committee
www.oasis-open.org/committees/tm-pubsubj/