Re: [topicmaps-comment] Challenge Part 2 : Metadata

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

* Bernard Vatant
| 
| What shall we do with metadata on assertions, and singularly 
| metadata indicating quality and source of information?

They sound like themes to me.
 
| "*According to Survey AAA*, it's *possible* that, by the end of 
| 2001, France Telecom will control more than 30% of the Swedish 
| phone market"
| 
| The *source* (Survey AAA) and *quality* (possible) of information  
| are in fact encoded as Metadata in the original document. 

I would make those themes in the scope of the association, and use
their classes to find out what they are doing in that scope. So
*possible* would be of type probability, or perhaps qualification,
while survey AAA would be of type authority.
 
| How do you deal with those metadata in XTM, so that, when rendering
| the information by processing the TM, they appear to the end-user
| for what they are : metadata on an assertion, and not members in the
| association representing the assertion?

By putting them in the scope.
 
--Lars M.