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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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