[topicmapmail] XTM 1.1

[Christoph Froehlich]

Hi 

wouldn't it be good to give topicmap authors the choice between two
different flavours of names? 

One that the author considers as identifying a topic unambigously
(controlled vocabularies) and one that is just a name as we use it day
by day (Pete) and that needs context to be understandable.

I see two advantages:
1. An author could decide on a per name base whether the name is capable
to identify a topic. Currently it is a design decision for the tm as a
whole.

2. It would be the author who indicates at authoring time whether a name
identifies a topic. Not anyone who uses the map eventually, either with
TNC en- or disabled.


In xtm, the unique name could be a child of <subjectIdentity>. The
currently used <basenames> would stop trigger merging.


(While typing, I wonder if the purpose of basename/variantname is what I
have described so far. But I'm pretty sure that it is not ... ... ...
...send)


bye
christoph





Am So, den 19.09.2004 schrieb Steve Pepper um 22:15:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> | i tried to build a thesaurus some time ago and ran into the impossibility 
> | to build it with XTM 1.0 because of the TNC. As far as i understood this 
> | problem has been resolved with XTM 1.1 but XTM 1.1 is not released yet.
> | Is it sensible to use XTM 1.1 by now as a foundation for my project or may 
> | it be subject to major changes before it get's 'official'?
> 
> Actually, one reason why the TNC will be optional in the next
> version of the standard is that *many* people found it to be
> unworkable in practice; most Topic Maps tools (including TM4J, the
> Omnigator and the Ontopia Knowledge Suite) did not enforce it.
> 
> So my advice to you, assuming you are using some tool that already
> treats the TNC as optional, is to simply ignore it. I can pretty
> much guarantee that the decision to make it optional in the revised
> Topic Maps standard will not be changed.
> 
> By the way, please note that we are not just talking about XTM here
> (which is simply an interchange syntax), but the standard as a whole,
> and in particular the core data model.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Steve
> 
> --
> Steve Pepper <pepper@ontopia.net>
> Chief Strategy Officer, Ontopia
> Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3
> Editor, XTM (XML Topic Maps 1.0)
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