[topicmapmail] Announcement of XML Schema for ISO 13250Topic Maps

[David RR Webber]

Message text written by Patrick Durusau
>Not to mention that if we solve the problems of overlapping, concurrent
hierarchical structures, scopes and reference schemes in multiple languages
for
biblical texts, those experiences are directly applicable to solving the
internationalization problems so recently discovered by the business world.
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Patrick,

This is exactly the point however.  Religion is way to attribrary IMHO -
and
of course is deliberately designed to be open to interpretation - that's
just good business practice in the field and keeps an army employed 
as you noted from your sales figures.

B2B is a different world.  We want searches that result in precision - 
one-and-only-one search results.  We want exact equating, 

/Well Drilling/Invoicing/Consumables/Total Cost/Amount

may equate to a column in Quickbooks for tax reporting on
business costs.  Making that happen is what we are after.

While XML was originally designed from a document handling
world - we are repurposing it within ebXML to do A2A implementing.

So - the business requirements, scope and extent are different.
This effects features we need now, and mechanisms for global
interoperability that must work, compared to searching the 
bible for 'interesting' results.  That's the simple brutal, non-sexy
bottom line.

BTW - A2A using XML via Internet is expected to be $3 trillion
by end of 2003 just to put things into perspective.  That's at least
3,000 times bigger than the trade in bibles, and long term the
market is potentially 70 times bigger than that as business
migrates from a paper based model.

Incidently - making all bible sales into eBooks and web searches
might be expected to put a huge dent in traditional paper sales?! ; -)

DW.