[topicmapmail] First draft of the Standard Application Model

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* W. M. Jaworski
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| "reading that document" was helpful. 

That's good to hear. The SAM is intended to clear up a number of
things that were not as clear as they ought to be, so if it helped,
that's good.

| 'Re-writing' of the document into a 3P-able format gave me
| additional insight into the TM concepts and meta-model. The process
| of 're-writing' diagrams of the Standard Application Model (SAM) is
| illustrated in http://www.gen-strategies.com/tmModel/tMap.htm. The
| process consists of the source (in this case a diagram representing
| a partition of SAM) analysis to specify/create:
| (1) SET Identifications
| (2) Inter-Set SCHEMA design
| (3) Set Enumeration
| (4) CONTEXT DIAGRAM and/or CONTEXT MAP.

Hmmmm. I must admit that I don't understand the formalism used here,
nor the one used in your second iteration. Do you have documentation
of that formalism online anywhere?
 
| [Lars Marius Garshol in the document]
| Ed. Note:(larsga)
| Should we add more explanatory text with examples etc?
| 
| [wmj]
| I am looking forward to a reasonable-size example to allow a
| verification of the SAM.

We will try to provide more examples in later versions of the
document. It may take a while before one will be available, however.

| I was unable to discover any inconsistencies between 7 diagrams of SAM.

That sounds good, though I don't know what it means.

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