RE: [xtm-wg] Topic Maps are gonna need steroids

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

Yep - which is why I've been tending to emphasize the necessity for
automated TM construction over existing infodomains - and also why it WILL
be necessary to use means other than the fixed-tag-vocabulary DTD approach
decided on by ISS for 1.0 at the week-end, in some applications. What kind
of "conformance" these are accorded is for continuing debate I guess - I
would expect that sooner or later, if TM takes off as we hope, that quite
apart from current debates on syntax, some form of "model-conformance" will
be defined in addition to the syntactic stuff.

Cheers

Ann W.

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> Subject: [xtm-wg] Topic Maps are gonna need steroids
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> 
> From this web page:
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/10/001018214317.htm
> Consider these quotes:
> 
> * The directly accessible "surface" Web consists of about 2.5 billion
> documents and is growing at a rate of 7.3 million pages per day.
> 
> * Counting the "surface" Web with the "deep" Web of connected 
> databases,
> intranet sites and dynamic pages, there are about 550 billion 
> documents, and
> 95 percent is publicly accessible.
> 
> * Fifty percent of all Internet users are native English 
> speakers, while
> English language Web sites account for about 78 percent of 
> all Web sites,
> and 96 percent of E-commerce Web sites.
> 
> * A white-collar worker receives about 40 e-mail messages daily at the
> office.
> 
> * Ninety percent of the world's e-mailboxes were found in the 
> United States
> in 1984, but that dropped to 59 percent by the end of 1999. E-mail
> production accounts for about 500 times as much information 
> as Web page
> production each year.
> 
> * Worldwide production of books increased by 2 percent in the 
> last year.
> 
> * Production of newspapers in the last year decreased by 2 percent.
> 
> * The United States produces 35 percent of all print 
> material, 40 percent of
> the images and more than half of the digitally stored material.
> 
> 
> 
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