[xtm-wg] Re: Simplification and clarification of XTM - Editors please read...

[luisjm@luisjm.com]

Sorry, Graham. Forget what I said below.

Luis

--- In xtm-wg@egroups.com, "Luis J. Martinez" <luisjm@l...> wrote:
> Graham,
> 
> I think your are missing the distinction between "is subject" and
> "describes subject". A resource can only be a subject if is
> unambiguously addressable. Any other resources can not be reliably
> resolved, so it can not functions as the sole method of
> identity. Therefore, it can only say something about the topics,
> "describes subject". The set of subject descriptions for a topic
> represent its subject. But, as you can see, there is an important
> distinction between addressable and non-addressable. This is shown
in
> the Conceptual Model.
> 
> Also, I don't think that resources are topics. Resources are reified
> by being the subject of a topic. This topic is a proxy to the
resource
> in topic map space, but the resource itself does not become a
> topic. That is my understanding. I would like for somebody to check
> me.
> 



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