[topicmapmail] Subject Identifiers metadata

[Thomas B. Passin]

Jan Algermissen wrote:
> "Thomas B. Passin" wrote:
> 
> 
>>Jan said -
>>
>>"Or do you suggest simply putting in the prose of some subject indicator
>>"The topic that has the URI of this resource as a subject identifier has
>>as it's subject the URI http://soandso ??"
>>
>>Why not? 
> 
> 
> Because given http://soandso - how do you find the topic that reifies that
> URL? Do you perform text matches on all subject indicator representations?

This issue exists for all subject indicators, not just ones for being 
used this particular way.  How do you find their topics if you are given 
the subject indicator?

If I found myself in that position often enough, I would create an index 
of topics by subject indicator value.  That is how it would be done in a 
relational database, too - create an index if you do something often 
enough and you need more speed in a query.

Cheers,

Tom P