[topicmapmail] PSIs - alternatives

[Murray Altheim]

Quoting Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen at gmail.com>:

> Hi Murray,
>
> I think we in general agree. I'm not going to exhaust the subject much
> more, but I'd love to hear some practical ways forward. Yeah, we all
> think PSI's are cool and good, but what to do? How to make people do
> it our way? I'm not sure that even the best solution here is the best
> solution. Hmmm.

Well, one of the things that is difficult is that *most* people
don't have the ability to publish, except those who can create
web pages, and even lay people who can do that (usually using
something like FrontPage or DreamWeaver) aren't in a position
to act as "PSI Publishers" in the sense that we've used that
term around these parts.

For the last few years Ceryle has had a built-in web server, so
in theory, if someone had an instance of Ceryle running *and*
their computer was sitting on the Internet, Ceryle's web server
could automatically post PSI sets for the internally-held
ontologies. But that's an admittedly very limited and fragile
solution, meant only to point out a possible solution, i.e.,
self-publishing of individualized identifiers for the subjects
that one is publicly discussing, so that people who want to can
use those identifiers to merge with their Topic Maps, permitting
"communication" of ontological concepts and relations. I think
it's in line with some of the scenarios this community envisioned
for the exchange of XML Topic Maps. Things don't all have to be
official, standards, etc.; they can be just a few people exchanging
ideas. We need to enable both. I'm not sure which is the lower-
hanging fruit.

Murray

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