[topicmapmail] How to address Web resources with XTM?

[Jan Algermissen]

Hi,

(as said before) I am doing some work on using XTM for interacting
with Web technology (rather than using Web technology to merely
transport XTM).

In a Web context, there are (IMO) three kinds of resources (in
Web-sense):

1) abstract concepts (car,dog,democracy)
2) addressable information resources ( a certain HTML page, a certain jpeg image)
3) resources where the focus on interaction (feeds, search engines, XHTML validators,..)

While Topic Maps make a clear distinction between 1) and 2) I am not sure how
to address resources of kind 3).

Consider the resource: 

   http://validator.w3.org/check

There is stuff I know about that resource:

1) in a human sense:

   - it is a validator that I can feed HTML and get a report of possible errors

2) in pure technical sense (possibly 'understandable' by a piece of software)

   - if one invokes GET on the URL, it allows a parameter called 'uri'

   - if one invokes POST on the URL, it accepts a message body of mime type
     "multipart/form-data" (a file upload)


Suppose I want to use XTM to express that information, how would I address
the validator? With <subjectIndicatorRef> or <reourceRef>?

Some more examples of type-3) resources:

http://www.google.de/search       (not the company Google, but the Web service)
http://www.weather.com/
http://www.dmoz.org/
http://dict.leo.org/              (a dictionary)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/     (a URL space where certain sub-resources provide
                                  information about things). Such as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington

Another example:
How would I say in XTM that http://www.google.de/search and 
http://www.altavista.com/web/results are of the same type and that this type is
"Web query processor"?

Bottom line: I want to be able to do the same for XTM that RDFForms do for RDF.

Thoughts?


Jan


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Jan Algermissen                           http://www.topicmapping.com
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