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Subject: Re: [topicmaps-comment] RE: OASIS vs W3C
Sam Hunting wrote: > [thomas passim] > > > No, the real difference is that Topic Maps are specialized into a few > > structures that - we hope - are widely useful. We can write software > > to use those structures. [...] > > > On the other hand, with Topic Maps, you still have to handle all the > > pieces at some point, and the range of options and specializations > > (baseNameStrings, variants, and parameters, for example) make it > > harder to index the database/knowledgebase. Specialization vs > > generalisability. > > This is exactly the function that the topic map graph (TMPM4) performs > -- handling all the pieces that are specialized in markup for > interchange in a generalized way for database/knowledgebase uses. > > > Another potential difference is the support each system gives for > > ontology and logic building. Here, RDF has RDF Schemas, while Topic > > Maps has nothing but some PSIs so far. > > Again, the templating mechanism in TMPM4 can perform this function. I doubt TMPM4 can do what RDFS already can and what TMCL will do. I only repeat myself when saying that a core data model for topic maps (= TMPM4 is the starting point of the discussion about TM core data model inside ISO SC34 WG3) should - must - not contain concept for TM schemas. The assoc template concept in TMPM4 is too weak to be really useful (see the TMCL requirements document http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0226.htm) and extending a TM data model to fulfill the other reqs as well makes no sense. More discussions on this should take place in the ISO mailing list. Cheers, --Holger -- Dr. H. Holger Rath - Director Research & Development - empolis * GmbH Bertelsmann MOHN Media Group Havelstr. 9, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany phone : +49-172-66-90-427 fax : +49-6151-380-488 <mailto:holger.rath@empolis.com> http://www.empolis.com
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