[topicmapmail] Associating to an association

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Martin Stitt
| 
| 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.

Bingo. This is precisely what I showed in the email I sent 2 minutes
ago. I think this is the way to do it.
 
| 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.

This works, but it's much more awkward, and as far as I can tell it
has no benefits at all. I would not recommend it.

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