[topicmapmail] XFML

[Jack Park]

Faceted Classification is truly interesting:
http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr517/winter2000/Group7/facet.htm
http://www.peterme.com/archives/00000063.html
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~star/gt.html
http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/cedar/dorking.htm
(those are just the first 4 hits on google).

But, I'm not sure I'd want to give up my PSIs.

OTOH, I do think that continuous exploration and evolution is appropriate 
for knowledge technologies. I think that XFML deserves a deeper look than 
that which I have given it thus far.

Interesting post, Peter. Thanks.
Jack

At 10:12 AM 5/31/2002 -0400, PeterV wrote:
>An announcement: I launched xfml yesterday at http://xfml.org
>
>It is a standard leaning very heavily on some of the concepts of 
>topicmaps, that's why I'm posting this to you clever people. The standard 
>is at version 0.1, but I hope to get to 1.0 soon-ish.
>
>It's goals are different from topicmaps, but many of the ideas are 
>similar. I'm hoping it will be simple yet powerful enough to be adopted 
>within a year by weblog software and CMS's. I'm also hoping it will make 
>people familiar with some of the concepts behind topicmaps so that 
>technology becomes more widely understood.
>
>I'd love to get feedback on the design of the spec. One issue I'm dealing 
>with is having info on topics in the same doc as info on occurrences in 
>pages: it will mean the resulting xfml doc can become really large 
>quickly. But XTM does that as well, so maybe it isn't a problem? Any insights?
>
>Thanks for any feedback on the spec so far,
>Peter
>http://easytopicmaps.com
>http://xfml.org