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Subject: [tm-pubsubj] Re: Vocabulary - details (Re: Deliverable 1 review ...)


 Hi

> * Bernard Vatant
> | Example
> |
> | 1. I create a topic map with a topic "Lars Marius Garshol", and use
> | as "subject indicator" your home page at http://www.garshol.priv.no/
> | ... because I don't know of any other published subject
> | documentation about you.  Of course, that is not a best recommended
> | practice, because I take the risk of this subject indicator to be
> | unstable, even if I have some confidence in its stability. But I
> | have no better choice.

LMG

> Actually, I think that's a poor subject indicator, because it could
> reasonably be taken to indicate a number of different subjects:
>
>   - the web page http://www.garshol.priv.no/,
>
>   - the web server http://www.garshol.priv.no/,
>
>   - me, and
>
>   - my home page(s).
>
> (And probably more if you really try to think of some more possibilities.)

Sure. So I take the risk to have my topic merged with another one which has not
the same subject.
As I said, I took this one default of real non-ambiguous "subject definition
document.

> So, what you mean is that this is just a random resource that happens
> to have been used by Bernard as a subject indicator, but it was not
> necessarily made with the intention to be used as a subject indicator.
> Right?

You got it :)

> Aha, then I understand you. So a "subject indicator" is any resource
> that has been used by someone as a subject indicator, while a "subject
> definition document" is a resource (in any format) published with the
> express intention that it be used as a subject indicator.
>
> Did I understand you correctly?

Sure - 200% :))

> If this is what you mean I agree that the terminology is useful, and I
> support its inclusion in the guidelines.

Great! Have a nice week-end.

Bernard





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