[topicmapmail] eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language

[Murray Altheim]

Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
[...]
> (We've never done anything with that XFML importer, though. It would
> be interesting to hear if there's any interest in such a thing, and
> whether people think a common PSI set for expressing XFML in topic
> maps would be useful. (Some of it could probably recycle Kal's faceted
> classification PSIs.))

Oh, I forgot to add: I have a set of PSIs developed for this
purpose already, and will be publishing them this Spring. If
anyone wants to take a look prior to that, I'm happy to send
the current draft along to them (in expectation of some feedback).

Murray

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Murray Altheim                    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK               .

   Tony Blair has said he "has absolutely no doubt" the intelligence
   about weapons of mass destruction he received in the run-up to the
   Iraq war was genuine. 25 Jan 2004. [1]

   US Secretary of State Colin Powell has conceded that Iraq may not
   have possessed any stocks of weapons of mass destruction before
   the war last year. 25 Jan 2004 [2]

   US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has admitted that the US had
   no fresh intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
   before going to war. 9 July 2003. [3]

   The head of the team searching for weapons of mass destruction in
   Iraq, David Kay, said he did not believe Iraq possessed large
   stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons. 24 Jan 2004 [4]

   The former UN chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, believes that
   Iraq destroyed most of its weapons of mass destruction 10 years
   ago, according to an interview broadcast yesterday. 18 Sep 2003 [5]

   Analysts at the CIA, DIA and State Department Intelligence Divi-
   sion said in different papers and at different times that they
   could find no evidence of a connection between Saddam Hussein and
   the al-Qaeda network, and were wary of claims being made over WMD.
   One official told the New York Times: 'As an employee of the
   Defence Intelligence Agency, I know this administration has lied to
   the public to get support for its attack on Iraq.' 8 June 2003 [6]

   International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with aston-
   ishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle
   conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal. 20 Nov 2003 [7]

   [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3427151.stm
   [2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3426703.stm
   [3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3054423.stm
   [4] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3425429.stm
   [5] http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1044511,00.html
   [6] http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,972937,00.html
   [7] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1089042,00.html