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Subject: [tm-pubsubj] Country.xtm PSI; also proposed region.xtm PSI
Dear TC Members and Prospective Members, Happy New Year. Murray, I began to take a look at the PSIs you wrote for XTM because I want to follow your examples and build on then to make other much-needed PSIs. I tried to validate the contents of language.xtm and country.xtm in one xtm file and discovered that alpha2 and alpha3 topics are used in both. We need to define unique IDs for all of the topics in PSIs, no matter which file they are in, right? If so, I changed the alpha2 alpha3 to beta2, beta3 in country.xtm. I also fixed the "Afghanistan" instance in country.xtm (I hope you don't mind. You had written "to fix" so I made it the same as the other instances, otherwise, the file would not have validated). Also, I think that you mentioned that you worked on a PSI for DC Elements. I think that we really do need it. Can you submit it, if you have it? Thanks. I created a new PSI region.xtm which is the "Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions and component geographical regions" http://www.un.org/depts/unsd/methods/m49regin.htm of the United Nations Statistical Division. http://www.un.org/depts/unsd/methods/ There are also countries and codes associated with this listing. I wonder how we could incorporate this information into country.xtm, or should we keep this as a separate PSI? Only trying to cover geography can get quite complex. I am wondering how we should handle class instances. Can we safely define a Continental region as a super-class and component geographical regions as a subclass? Should we also define associations in a PSI? I took this approach and wonder if it would work: topic id="eastern-africa" instanceOf topicRef xlink:href="#continental-region-name" instanceOf topicRef xlinkhref="#africa" At the last meeting, Steve, you mentioned that the reference itself could be thought of as the "published subject." Did you mean the original resource itself such as http://www.un.org/depts/unsd/methods/m49regin.htm or a TM author defined document? For example I could do this-- topic id="continental-region-name" instanceOf topicRef xlink:href="core.xtm#class" subjectIdentity subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="continentinental-region-desc" subjectIdentity subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="cr-pub-subj.html#continentinental-region" If we did create a cr-pub-subj.html document and define what it would contain. Did you mean something like this? Bernard, I was not sure about the copy write notice. I used both topucMaps.org and Oasis-Open.org. I also wondered if we need to formally get permission from the UNSD if we do want to use this. I really want to get started working on this and I have others that I want to work on. I am looking forward to everyone's feedback. Cheers, Mary ************************************** Mary Y. Nishikawa, Technical Editor & EDMS Support XML Evangelist Technique/ InTouch Documentation Schlumberger K. K. 2-2-1 Fuchinobe Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-0006 Tel: +81-42-759-5376 Fax: +81-42-759-3563 **************************************
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