[topicmapmail] ANN: UNSPSC topic map available

[Lars Marius Garshol]

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* Murray Altheim
| 
| The UNSPSC is certainly important for business use, but the reason I
| gave a go at the Cyc ontology (however misguided it or myself may be
| in attempting to use it) was to provide *one possible* common
| framework ontology upon which sub-ontologies could be attached, just
| as you have been discussing. 

I have to say I agree with this. Cyc contains a wealth of concepts
that would be very useful to have as published subjects. The best
would be if we could do this together with the RDF people so that we
could use the same URIs in both cases, as far as possible.

| There's the IEEE SUO ontology [...] 

It would be good to have this in the same way, I think.

| [...] and then whatever gets cooked up by the W3C.

Well, OWL won't be an ontology in the same way, as far as I
understand. OWL is just a further development of DAML+OIL, so it's
more comparable with TMCL, really.
 
| Along those same lines I have worked on the ITIS zoological
| taxonomy, and played a bit with DeweyDC. 

These two should go up as well.

| There needs to be a common way of addressing existing frameworks
| even if their publishers decide, due to lack of interest or
| resources, to publish a topic map. For example, creating a URN space
| for Dewey that included version and a common means of creating those
| URNs would obviate the need for a topic map; one simply would create
| the URN and use it in one's tools/maps.  Dewey's publisher could
| provide a web page describing how to create URI/URNs within their
| space.

Why would we want to use URNs? Isn't that really the same as using
http URIs, except that it avoids cluttering up URN space? (BTW,
Patrick Stickler's voc: URN scheme seems to be pretty much what you
want.)

Also, you don't have to publish published subjects in the form of a
topic map.

| Same for ISBN/ISSN.

These already have URN schemes, at least ISBNs.
 
| But describing how to convert and publish those frameworks as topic
| maps, or how to create a URN or http: identifier for topics within
| them is certainly within the scope of the TC, and an important part,
| perhaps one of the most important parts.

Agreed.

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