[topicmapmail] Identity Crisis on the WWW

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Peter P. Jones

| I like the paper, but I then find it hard to square with
| 
| http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-xtm/#sect-proc-subjectIndicatorRef
| [...]
|
| That appears to cash out a subjectIndicatorRef as a topic that
| points at a topic that points at the resource. The subject
| indicator/address distinction appears to be lost unless some typing
| is forced on the automagicked topic...?
| 
| Or am I missing something?

I think so. The discussion of these concepts is at

  <URL: http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-model/#N561 >

To see what the properties of topics actually mean, look at

  <URL: http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-model/#N705 >

See also

  <URL: http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-xtm/#N866 >

for a bit more explanation.

If you go through all of this, I think the text you referred to
becomes clearer. When <subjectIndicatorRef> appears outside
<subjectIdentity> it is resolved to the topic that has the resource
being referred to as its subject indicator.

That's different from <resourceRef> because that is resolved to the
topic that has the resource being referred to as its subject.

Did that help?

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