[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]
Subject: Deliverables: Conversation starter
Greetings, Just a conversation starter on the topic of deliverables for the PubSubj TC. (Not a proposal, probably will disagree with myself if I think about any of the following very long.) Seems to me that we need to get some deliverables, i.e., examples of how to do PSI out sooner rather than later. Pepper remarked that one of my examples in an earlier post was "sub-optimal," which I agree with but I am not all together certain that we should wait until we have the ultimate PSI syntax and mechanisms before releasing deliverables from the PubSubj TC. While my examples were "sub-optimal" even as HTML based PSIs, I think it is the case that PSIs that are published using topic maps will certainly have more capabilities than those that written as HTML pages. Same is the case for PSIs that use the OAI mechanism for storage will have advantages over static HTML PSIs. What I see as potential deliverables from the PubSubj TC are: 1. HTML based PSIs (with notation as to their limitations) 2. OAI based PSIs 3. Topic Map based PSIs I think Pepper has made as good a case as can be made for why PSI are important, but making the case is not enough. We need to empower people to start using PSIs. It is arguably the case that PSIs constructed by ontology experts/consultants are going to be more useful both in terms of content and delivery systems than those written by sixth grade history classes. But, just like HTML 3.2 introduced millions to markup (talk about a sub-optimal markup language), an easy road to building and using PSIs will gain us more notice in the marketplace of ideas (and potentially in the marketplace where commerce occurs). The case has been made for PSIs, I don't think we should keep our fans waiting while we work on the ultimate solution. BTW, the idea of published subjects came up with a vendor recently at the SBL and I suspect they would be willing to devote the programming cycles to mine their databases for Bible related topics (names, personal, geographic, etc.) to produce PSIs for biblical studies. What they need is a syntax for expressing it. I am fairly sure I can find hosting for such a set of PSIs. ;-) Hope everyone is having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]