[topicmapmail] eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language

[Conal Tuohy]

I just came across "eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language" and wondered
what others (hint, Murray) thought of it.

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Compatibility with topic maps (XTM) and RDF.

XFML is being designed as a subset of the topicmap standard
(http://topicmaps.org), optimized for a specific goal (sharing and
connection faceted metadata between websites). Topic maps were designed so
languages like this would be easy to define. XFML will be compatible with
topicmaps in that any XFML file can be transformed into valid XTM easily.
Work is also being done on RDF serialization of XFML, which will mean
compatibility between XFML and RDF. This means that XFML authors will be
able to use existing RDF and XTM tools.

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I've only taken a brief look at it, and it's far too late at night to be
reading this kind of thing. It certainly owes a lot to topic maps but it's
clearly NOT a subset of XTM syntactically.

Also for a comparison of XTM and XFML:
http://matt.blogs.it/2002/10/08.html

Comments?


Con