Re: [topicmaps-comment] re: subject identity

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@home.com>]

[Ivan Uemlianin]

> <topicMap>
>
>    <topic id="lc">
>      <subjectIdentity>
>        <subjectIndicatorRef
>         xlink:href="http:"www.biogs.org/~123456789012.html"/>
>      </subjectIdentity>
>      <baseName>
>        <baseNameString>Lewis Carroll</baseNameString>
>      </baseName>
>    </topic>
>
>    <topic id="cd">
>      <subjectIdentity>
>        <subjectIndicatorRef
>         xlink:href="http:"www.biogs.org/~123456789012.html"/>
>      </subjectIdentity>
>      <baseName>
>        <baseNameString>Charles Dodgson</baseNameString>
>      </baseName>
>    </topic>
>
<snip/>
> </topicMap>
>
> As the topics in this topic map refer to the same object, they could be
> merged.  Once this is done however, each of the characteristics of the
> new topic will have to be scoped under either "childrensLiterature" or
> "predicateCalculus", similarly with associations in which the new topic
> plays a role (excluding things like birthday - assuming pseudonyms have
> such things. ...

You say "will have to be scoped".  Once again, notice that if they had been
scoped beforehand (their names, I mean), in the merged topic the names would
have remained scoped.  So it is "scope me now or scope me later".

Cheers,

Tom P