[topicmapmail] tagging vs topics

[Christian Wittern]

Peter,

I made a presentation about this at last years ACH/ALLC conference,
called "TEI and Topic Maps".  The abstract is still online I think --
I have not yet written up a proper article.  

What I am doing here is using the encoding recommended by the Text
Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org) for marking up texts and
Topic Maps for maintaining an abstract layer of information about the
things in the texts.  In practice, I did for example tag the persons
mentioned in the texts inline with a <name> tag etc, and extracted
information from there into a topic map, where I further processed the
information, but this is just how I did it.  Be careful however, not
to maintain the same information in two places, to avoid problems with
data integrity.

Christian

PeterV <peter@poorbuthappy.com> writes:

> 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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 Christian Wittern 
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