[topicmapmail] ANN: UNSPSC topic map available

[Mary Nishikawa]

At 10:01 PM 10/14/2002 +0100, Kal Ahmed wrote:
>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...

Kal, glad you see the importance of this 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/EML2002Ni
> >shikawa01-toc.html >
> >
>
>Great minds...

Many "great" minds together = progress?  ;-)

This talk developed  from countless discussions with Lars Marius and a year 
of discussions with the OASIS TM Published subjects members (see the 
credits in my paper).
Kal, we welcome you :-)

Actually Jack Park came to my talk, and he asked that I write a chapter for 
the next Advances in Topic Maps book -    (this is what he meant by "portal 
integration" with topic maps -- Jack's description of what I will be 
writing on). You will be writing a chapter too, right? Great minds together :-)

I am hoping that my Late Breaking News talk for XML 2002  is accepted 
because I am expanding on the ideas presented in my Extreme Markup paper. 
The UNSPSC was only the beginning and the point was to show that a standard 
"upper level" and generalized scheme can be used a central location for 
others to "pick up" binding points to use in their own maps of internal use 
subjects; I want to have fixed published subjects for the UNSPSC and 
publish them in a fixed place. It would be a good idea for the owners of 
the classification, the ECCMA,  to do this, as I said in my talk, but we 
may need to first publish it in http://psi.oasis-open.org

The UNSPSC is used by web services, so I am sure you see the importance of 
this.

The Library of Congress could very well do the same thing.


> > | 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 
>feeling
>(now) is that at least one knows where one stands with a made-up URN
>namespace. There is no way of resolving it, so there is no possibility that
>by resolving it a subject descriptor would appear. In other words it serves
>as a simple identifier (unfortunately not necessarily a unique identifier,
>but I suppose I could use urn:x-techquila.com:unspsc:  on the basis that
>fewer people are going to use the x-techquila.com namespace in their made-up
>URNs).

Kal, see my paper and the work of the committee.

Cheers,
Mary
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