[xtm-wg] Knowledge management claims re XTM (and Topic Maps...)

["Wrightson, Ann" <Ann.Wrightson@sweetandmaxwell.co.uk>]

Hi folks...

I don't know if you discussed this at all in Montreal, but I am very
concerned that XTM should encourage/facilitate good working-with the
long-standing academic knowledge-engineering community by 
a) being (very) moderate and realistic in its claims for XTM *by itself* as
a knowledge modelling technique - XTM's main strength could well be in
providing the "hooks" which enable the wide range of established knowledge
modelling techniques to link to Web resources, and also in providing simple
exchangeable *static* representations of (some) such models;
b) working with folks who have done eg semantic modelling for years, rather
than trying to (re)invent ways of doing it without the benefit of that
experience.

This concern is based on back-of-room conversations at XML Europe, where I
found myself trying to bring some experienced knowledge engineers "back down
off the ceiling", and into a more realistically appreciative frame of mind
regarding Topic Maps, after some rash claims from the podium...

Cheers

Ann W.

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