[topicmapmail] Subject Identifiers metadata

[Kal Ahmed]

Hi Miles,

What you suggest lets me talk about the Published Subejct Inidcator
(i.e. the resource at the address
http://www.altheim.com/bunny/#bid01338), but not about the *identifier*
(i.e. the string "http://www.altheim.com/bunny/#bid01338").

If you have P.S. Indicator resources, I would suppose that you could
maybe use metadata about that resource as a heuristic for metadata about
the identifier. However, if you have and identifier with no retrievable
resource then obviously that heuristic cannot be applied.

Cheers,

Kal

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 17:43, Miles Thompson wrote:
> 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>
> 
> 
> --
> 
> What did I miss here?
> 
> Miles
> 
> 
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