Re: [topicmaps-comment] Re: RDF/Topic Maps: late/lazy reificationvs.early/preemptive reification

[Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>]

* Piotr Kaminski
| 
| I have two problems with this:
| 
| 1.  You can't use "the member role" as the third player.  The role
| is the same for all members and associations.

Not so. You must distinguish between the role (an association role
information item) and the role type (a topic information item). They
are not at all the same.

| 2.  There is redundancy: you're effectively recording the membership
| of the club in two places.  Once in the original association, and
| again in the sponsorship associations you're creating.

You're fighting a strawman, Piotr. There is no need to do it this way,
since you can model this very easily using a ternary association. So
whatever duplication this approach has doesn't mean anything, since
this is in any case the wrong way to do it.

If you have a point to make about reification of associations I
suggest you come up with a new example, since there is no reason to
reify this association.

--Lars M.