RE: [topicmaps-comment] Intro question (and redirection?)

[Steven Livingstone <s.livingstone@btinternet.com>]

Thanks Lars - 
Well, the fragment comes from a paper at the following URL.
http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/karstenj/docs/rss_in_uddi.aspx

The following is an example of the UDDI document containing a request.

<businessEntity businessKey="...">
	<name>Ficticious Film Company</name>
	<businessServices>
		<businessService serviceKey="..." businessKey= "..."> 
			<name>Ficticious News Feed</name> 
			<bindingTemplates> 
				<bindingTemplate bindingKey="..."
serviceKey="...">
					<accessPoint
URLType="http">http://example.com/rss10.aspx</accessPoint>
					<tModelInstanceDetails>
						<tModelInstanceInfo
tModelKey="uuid:bf3d12a4-a6e8-4ef2-918c-18c60a04edfc"/>
	
<instanceDetails>
	
<overviewDoc>
	
<overviewURL>http://www.example.com/sample/rss.aspx</overviewURL>
	
</overviewDoc>
	
</instanceDetails>
					</tModelInstanceDetails>
				</bindingTemplate>
			</bindingTemplates>
			<categoryBag>
				<keyedReference
tModelKey="uuid:a035a07c-f362-44dd-8f95-e2b134bf43b4" keyName="RSS"
keyValue="hollywood" />
				<keyedReference
tModelKey="uuid:a035a07c-f362-44dd-8f95-e2b134bf43b4" keyName="RSS"
keyValue="film" />
				<keyedReference
tModelKey="uuid:a035a07c-f362-44dd-8f95-e2b134bf43b4" keyName="RSS"
keyValue="movie" />
				<keyedReference
tModelKey="uuid:c0b9fe13-179f-413d-8a5b-5004db8e5bb2" keyName="Motion
Picture and Video Industries" keyValue="5121" />
			</categoryBag>
		</businessService>
	</businessServices>
</businessEntity>

Notice the categoryBag element that is used to group terms which can be
associated with the resource - this is a feature called general keywords
in UDDI.
Aother suggestion is to replace this model using existing taxonomies,
the following an example using NAICS :

    <categoryBag>
      <keyedReference 
      	tModelKey="uuid:c0b9fe13-179f-413d-8a5b-5004db8e5bb2" 
      	keyName="Motion Picture and Video Industries" 
      	keyValue="5121" 
      />
    </categoryBag>

My view, although not as qualified as I would like for having such a
converation in the first place (heck throw myself in at the deep end) is
that Topic Maps can beused to better represent this idea of
taxonomy/general keywords. I intend to look into this as my first major
look at Topic Maps - I was directed to XTM after I looked at using
RDF/DAML etc for oontology'sand so now I have some basic understanding
that the above could be done using XTM.

In a few weeks I'll know for certain as i get through the book.

Thanks,
Steven.

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-----Original Message-----
From: larsga@pc36.avidiaasen.online.no
[mailto:larsga@pc36.avidiaasen.online.no] On Behalf Of Lars Marius
Garshol
Sent: 26 August 2002 21:40
To: topicmaps-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [topicmaps-comment] Intro question (and redirection?)



Hi there, Steven,

* Steven Livingstone
|
| I am not sure if this question is appropriate for this forum - is 
| there a topic map developers forum?

This forum is not so bad, but you may find TOPICMAPMAIL to be a better
place for questions. Better in the sense that you may get more answers
there.

  <URL: http://www.infoloom.com/mailman/listinfo/topicmapmail >

| Anyway, I have the following fragment:
| 
|     <categoryBag>
|       <keyedReference 
|       	tModelKey="uuid:a035a07c-f362-44dd-8f95-e2b134bf43b4" 
|       	keyName="RSS" 
|       	keyValue="hollywood" 
|       />
|       <keyedReference 
|       	tModelKey="uuid:a035a07c-f362-44dd-8f95-e2b134bf43b4" 
|       	keyName="RSS" 
|       	keyValue="film" 
|       />
|       <keyedReference 
|       	tModelKey="uuid:a035a07c-f362-44dd-8f95-e2b134bf43b4" 
|       	keyName="RSS" 
|       	keyValue="movie" 
|       />
|     </categoryBag>
| 
| I would like to represent (or at least get started on) representing 
| this using topic maps.

I looked at this, but couldn't really make out what it represented.
Could you explain what (in the 'real' world) this UDDI snippet
represents? It looks like it will be difficult to model it with topic
maps without knowing.

| I plan to look at it when I get in tomorrow, but I would like any 
| pointers on the best way to go about this... I know I still have quite

| a bit of reading to do :)

Reading is only half of it, though. The only way to really learn
something like this is by doing. So you are on the right track. :)

-- 
Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian         <URL: http://www.ontopia.net >
ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC        <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >


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