[topicmapmail] Subject Identifiers metadata

[Miles Thompson]

Hello all,

I'm sure that my first thought on this question of 'addressing PSI as
subjects' must be wrong (otherwise you wouldn't be talking about this so
much) but perhaps it will be instructive to point out precisely why this
thought I had is wrong.


Here's how I would've thunk it would work:

1/ 

If you wanted to talk about the bunny name "Gabbie" (ie an abstract
subject) you would, in the normal way create a topic thus:

<topic id="Gabbie">
	<subjectIdentity>
		<subjectIndicatorRef
	
xlink:href="http://www.altheim.com/bunny/#bid01338"/> 
	</subjectIdentity>
</topic>

2/

Alternatively, if you wanted to opine on the subject of Murray's PSI
system per se, making reference to a specific PSI he has constructed,
couldn't we simply treat the PSI itself as a simple 'addressable
subject' and define a topic (which could then have meta-data added)
thus:

<topic id="PSI-For-Gabbie">
	<subjectIdentity>
		<resourceRef
	
xlink:href="http://www.altheim.com/bunny/#bid01338"/> 
	</subjectIdentity>
</topic>


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What did I miss here?

Miles