Re: [xtm-wg] In the opera topic map, what is a "PSD"?

[Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>]

[sam hunting writes]:

What does PSD stand for?
[steve paper writes]

> Sorry. It stands for "public subject descriptor" -- i.e. a
> standardized string, used as the value of a topic's "identity"
> attribute, whose purpose is to establish (as unambiguously as
> possible) the identity of the subject to which the topic
> refers.

> The actual strings used are our own invention and are based on
> the ontopia.net domain. If and when the XTM activity defines other
> strings, possibly using a a different syntax, we will obviously
> map to or convert to those.

May and/or should one regard the strings in the opera PSDs as an
implicit proposal for standardized PSD syntax?

S.



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