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

["Eric Freese" <eric@isogen.com>]

Ann:

Perhaps you could illuminate us with what claims caused these people so much
distress.  As one of the speakers in that session, I would appreciate the
feedback.

My paper was meant to start people thinking in the direction that topic maps
might be able to be used to interchange knowledge bases.  I also wanted to
demonstrate that it was, in fact, possible to build (simple) knowledge bases
from topic map information.  I would love the opportunity to work with the
knowledge engineering community so investigate this further.

Eric

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wrightson, Ann [mailto:Ann.Wrightson@sweetandmaxwell.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:09 AM
> To: 'xtm-wg@egroups.com'
> Subject: [xtm-wg] Knowledge management claims re XTM (and Topic Maps...)
>
>
> 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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