[topicmapmail] Making ontologies : RDF vs TM

[Marcel Ferrante]

To maybe help in the ontology question:

Ontology [1]
   For Philosophy
     Ontology is a discipline of Philosophy that deals with what kinds
of things exist -
     what entities there are in the universe. It is a branch of
metaphysics, the study of first
     principles or the essence of things.

   For Information Science
     Working model of entities and interactions in some particular
domain of knowledge or
     practices, such as electronic commerce.
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So, we can see, from the ontology definition of Information Science,
that is possible make a ontology with XTM. Also is possible construct:
indexex, taxonomies, thesaurus, glossaries and semantics network.

And "topic maps are not about the semantic web, but rather about
seamless knowledge "
Hum, interesting. So the scope is bigger than web. Let's move the
focus instead the macro, as web, to the micro, our PC.
I read that next version of windows, longhorn, will has a new file
system, winfs, that will be  "Search and Manage Files Based on
Content" [1] as they said. They want use XML in the file system.
That's interesting. I don't want thing now what they will do with this
and web service in the future. But the analogy comes. Knowledge in own
PC, organizing files and information with XTM ? Who knows...

Regards,
Marcel

References:
[1] An evaluation of Topic Maps A Master's Thesis in Computational
Linguistics G=F6teborg University May 2002 Anna Carlstedt Mats Nordborg
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwinfs/html/winfs03112004.asp

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Marcel Ferrante Silva
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