[topicmapmail] PSIs?

[Murray Altheim]

Martin Bryan wrote:
> Murray
>
>>   http://kmi.open.ac.uk/psi/datatypes.html
>>
>>There's been precious little discussion or interest in this;
>>apparently nobody wants or needs quantification in XTM?
> 
> There was little to discuss: you seem to have compreshensively 
> covered the whole scenario. :-)

Well, if that was actually the case it'd be nice to know it. I
have some strange feeling there's more to the story than meets
the eye (in the Bullwinkle and Rocky tradition).

> The only question was whether we could promote the sIDs.

Do you mean consider them as the PSIs in preference to the ones
in the topic map?

And before anyone considers anything final, I'd suggest they wait
until I update the document to use the PURL rather than the KMi
URL. I'll be publishing all PSIs as part of my Ceryle project, so
the PURL base addresses are

    http://purl.org/ceryle/
    http://purl.org/ceryle/psi/
    http://purl.org/ceryle/psi/datatypes.xtm

which will effectively substitute the latter for the base address
of the current draft PSI set.

There are currently no index documents at either of the first
two URLs, so I should do something about that, too. Part of getting
the Comprehensive Bunny Name List online was trying out the whole
PURL thing, which was in retrospect pretty painless.

I'll tackle this within the next week and re-announce the new
draft as a "beta" unless anyone has any comments. (puh-leez...)

Thanks!

Murray

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Murray Altheim                  <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/>
Knowledge Media Institute
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