[topicmapmail] A somewhat new topic maps format

[Murray Altheim]

Jason Cupp wrote:
> Actually, there's a coffee shop near me called the "White Rabbit" and I
> mentioned to the proprietor that I had just found a website with an
> authority list of rabbit names... they didn't seem to understand the utility
> of such a thing.

Some people are just clueless and beyond help...

> <rdfs:Class rdf:about="http://www.altheim.com/bunny/">
>   <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person"/>
> </rdfs:Class>
> 
> oh, the possibilities...

Yeah, but you can also talk about my bunny using

   http://purl.org/ceryle/bunny/#bid0537

and right now she's in the back yard attacking the lawn.

> I'm actually trying to work in some form of topicmaps into our next software
> release to support user-defined controlled vocabulary lists for geospatial
> metadata, ISO 19115. May not be XTM, but once it's a part of the sofware,
> you've got to support it. I had to start with a more digestible form...

If I'd stayed at Sun I was hoping to participate (I had the invite) in
the US Federal Govt. XML Working Group. I think their geospatial metadata
spec is very cool, but off the top of my head I can't remember its
relationship with ISO 19115. While not thinking about the creepier aspects
of the standard (like Big Brother keeping track of where I am standing,
or launching missiles at that spot), it's rich with possibilities, just
like the Comprehensive Bunny Name List.

[Hey, I think this is the first time my .sig matches up with the subject
of one of my messages.]

Murray

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Murray Altheim                         http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
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