[topicmapmail] ANN: UNSPSC topic map available

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Kal Ahmed
| 
| For no particular reason other than "because it is there", I've
| converted the Universal Standard Products and Services
| Classification into XTM form and uploaded the results to [1].

Oh. You too? :-)

| For those that don't know the UNSPSC is a standard hierarchical
| classification of commercial products and services and, according to
| the publishers "is used in sell side and buy side catalogs and as a
| standardized account code in analyzing expenditure (Spend
| Analysis)."  [2].

Mary Nishikawa uses it in her paper from Extreme 2002:
  <URL: http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme02/html/2002/Nishikawa01/EML2002Nishikawa01-toc.html >

| Lacking any form of suitable subject indicator I have opted to
| create a private urn namespace x-unspsc. Perhaps someone on this
| list could suggest a better way to provide useful subject indicators
| for this map ?

What about the old tired-and-true method of http URIs that point to
nowhere? I feel that is better than making new URI schemes.
 
| As an aside, if anyone has any other publicly available topic maps
| that they would like to promote, please let me know so that I can
| make entries in my topic map [3]

There's lots of them here:
  <URL: http://www.topicmapping.com/registry.html >

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