[topicmapmail] Associating to an association

[Martin Stitt]

Cool!  Thanks for the pointer.

Since writing my first note, I was pondering the idea of treating my
phrase as a concept itself, meaning that I would create a topic to represent
it.  I would refer to this as a concept phrase, just like there is the idea
of a noun phrase within text mining.  This concept phrase would naturally have
associations to the more primitive concepts of "topic maps" and "keywords", and
it would serve as a topic to which my resources (those emails) could be associated.

But, what you've shown me is also a great way to cover this case.  If I understand
correctly, I could give my "represents" association instance an id value and then
reference that directly from another association, such that I would not need to
create a new topic if I didn't need it for any other purposes.

Thanks...

Martin Stitt


--- Steve Pepper <pepper@ontopia.net> wrote:
> At 06:02 12.11.2002 -0600, Martin Stitt wrote:
> >I want to cast an association to the specific instance of "represents"
> >that associates two specific topics: "topic maps" and "keywords".  I
> >want to reify a specific instance a topic-association-topic
> >relationship.
> >
> >Is this possible within the topic map model?
> 
> Yes. Just remember that the only way you can make any assertions
> about anything in the topic map model is by making the "thing"
> into a topic.
> 
> So if you want to make assertions about an association, you reify
> it as a topic, as described in the XTM spec at
> http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/#desc-reification
> 
> See especially the example at
> http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/#ex-association
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Steve
> 
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