[topicmapmail] Subject Identifiers metadata

[Thomas B. Passin]

Kal Ahmed wrote:

> I was talking about the thing that we conceptually use to represent a
> subject - irrespective of its representation in some computer system. We
> conceptually require this thing as a place to hang our statements about
> the subject (assertions), but in itself it provide *no information at
> all*.

You mean the concept or notion of a subject in general?  Fine, we can 
have a topic for that and even give it a PSI.  However, if you want to 
talk about the subject indicator of a specfic topic, you have the 
topic's identifier to use as a reference - not of course for the subject 
identifier but for the topic whose identifier it is.

Cheers,

Tom P