[topicmapmail] ANN: UNSPSC topic map available

[Kal Ahmed]

On Monday 14 October 2002 21:15, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> * 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? :-)
>

Great minds...

> | 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/EML20=
02Ni
>shikawa01-toc.html >
>

Great minds...=20

> | 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.
>

I've done that an awful lot in the past and I feel guilty about it. My fe=
eling=20
(now) is that at least one knows where one stands with a made-up URN=20
namespace. There is no way of resolving it, so there is no possibility th=
at=20
by resolving it a subject descriptor would appear. In other words it serv=
es=20
as a simple identifier (unfortunately not necessarily a unique identifier=
,=20
but I suppose I could use urn:x-techquila.com:unspsc:  on the basis that=20
fewer people are going to use the x-techquila.com namespace in their made=
-up=20
URNs).

> | 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 >

Wow ! Jan, what excellent work! I shall have to add a link to that (and=20
plagarise the contents too, of course ;-)

Cheers,

Kal

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