[topicmapmail] Subject Identifiers metadata

[Kal Ahmed]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 16:39, Dan Corwin wrote:
> ** Jan Algermissen replied 4/30 to Kal:
> 
>  > ... you cannot reify an identifier (if you stick to the current
>  > TMDM) because the TMDM does not recognize identifiers as subjects.
> 
> According to this note in TMDM specs, it also does not recognize
> topics themselves as being potential subjects:
> 
> [1]  http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-model/#d0e898
> 

The note says that you cannot reify a topic. You can, however reify any
characteristic of the topic. Can you give an example of the need to
reify the topic ? For example it is not really meaningful IMHO to say
"topic X was created by user Y", whereas I think it is meaningful to say
that "the assignment of name A and occurrence B to topic X was done by
user Y".

Cheers,

Kal

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