[xtm-wg] Re: XTM tag line

[Andrius Kulikauskas <ms@ms.lt>]

I'm voting for "mapping the web"  (though I think Steve Pepper's
"charting the web" is more poetic).

A big problem, for me, with the GPS metaphor is that it's not part of my
daily life.  I think a major problem is that, for the person who doesn't
know anything about TopicMaps, it's highly ambiguous - is it to be taken
literarily, or metaphorically?  So I imagine in a group of people who
don't know anything about TopicMaps, maybe:

20% will ask, what is GPS?
20% I think I know what GPS is, but now I have my doubts
40% Oh, TopicMaps must be a system for attributing coordinates to the
web.  What does that mean?  Maybe that deals with domain names.
20%  Oh, that's a helpful metaphor.

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
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