[topicmapmail] Subject Identifiers metadata

[Thomas Schwotzer]

Thomas B. Passin wrote:

 > .....
> If you mean something else, would you please explain some more?
> 
> And I think we have to be careful about the use of the word "assertion". 
> It might be used to mean specifically an association in a topic map, 
> generally in a normal English usage sense, or colloquially as a 
> ahorthand for "statement" or "claim".  In the strict topic map sense, 
> you can have associations (or call the "assertions" if this is the new 
> jargon), but that refers to computer structures relating topics in the 
> topic map.  They are but proxies for  the real subjects and the real 
> relations between them.

In the TM reference model, relations are described by means of
"assertions".

In opposite, the TM data model has a concept of "association"
not "assertion".

Thomas S.
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