Re: [topicmaps-comment] multilingual thesaurus - language, scope,and topic naming constraint

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

[Bernard Vatant]

>
> I stumbled on a case where different descriptors have the same name in
>some languages, and different ones in some others.
>...
> It looks like english, german and french makes the difference, whereas
dutch, danish and spanish clearly don't ... although I'm pretty 
> sure they do distinguish the concepts (social science vs 
> economical system) but it does not show in the names the Thesaurus
> provides.
>
> If I use languages as scopes - which is usual - how will 
> the topic naming constraint apply? Should my TM engine merge 
> topic1 and topic2, because they have the same name in the
> scope "SPA"? Does not make sense ...
>

Apply more than one scope to each name, like "language", "social study",
"activity".  It is the set of scopes that must match for the TNC to apply:

"2. The scopes in which the base names occur are equal as defined by the
scope equality principle. "

Tom P