[topicmapmail] tagging vs topics

[HS]

Hello

For some reason, in-text tagging is not so widely used. I am not sure if
topic map engines even handle mixed formats with XTM and some other tags.

Popular option for tagging is to have a separate metadata (topic map) file,
which only refers (via subjectIndicatorRef and resourceRef XTM elements) to
the article. If your material should be in XML, I think you can use XPath
references to the point of that topic in the article.

A third way is to use another tool to link your in-text XML tags to your
ontology classes. At least for RDF there are some...

Some metadata markup "standards" are (other than XTM):
- SHOE standard for HTML docs (Simple Hypertext Ontology Extensions), puts
the metadata at the beginning of the file
- RDF(S) family (RDF, DAML etc.), a generic resource description language.

I seem to remember there are taggers, or annotator tools, for some of these
languages...
Harri


----- Original Message -----
From: "PeterV" <peter@poorbuthappy.com>
To: <topicmapmail@infoloom.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:15 AM
Subject: [topicmapmail] tagging vs topics


> Hi all,
> a simple question that I'm sure has been considered by you all before, but
> here it goes: topicmaps are great for assigning topics to articles, but
> what if you also want to *tag* certain parts of an article, ie. "The
unrest
> in <country id="CO">Colombia</a> has ...".
>
> Surely tagging is very useful as well. How do you combine tagging with
> topicmaps? What standards do you use for tagging?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts or links to explanations on this,
> PeterV
> http://easytopicmaps.com
>
>
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