Re: [topicmaps-comment] TAO vs. ERA

[Robert Barta <rho@bigpond.net.au>]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:29:05PM +0100, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> Not "specialization of", but "instance of". Specialization is the same
> as subclassing, which is something else entirely.

This means that

  lars-marius (person) # using instanceOf here

is an appropriate use of instanceOf and

  person (living-being) # also here

is not?

Then obviously the thinking to add <instanceOf> in the first place

  http://www.doctypes.org/xtm/syntax/Ontopia-syntax-comments.html#TOPIC

was to facilitate 'down-stream' topic map authors, i.e. those who already
have an ontology around and should only fill this with 'instances'.

And this means that ontologies should use a dedicated association of type

  http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/#desc-class-instance

?

Interesting.

\rho