[topicmapmail] PSIs - alternatives

[jackpark at thinkalong.com]

RDF workers in the health care field have started a wiki
about dereferencing URIs.
http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/WebClosureSocialConvention

It seems that we are not the only folks orbiting in this
space of ideas regarding getting meanings out of URIs.

Jack

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:48:59 +0200
 "Deschuyteneer, Tanguy"
<tanguy.deschuyteneer at logicacmg.com> wrote:
>Gruss Got,
>
>Speaking of universal name is always interesting.
>Gemakkelijker vanuit Australië of de Verenigde Staten.
>La tour de Babel européenne et mondiale doit elle laisser
>la place à une tour unilingue anglaise?
>
>The creation of a centralised repository is certainly not
>easy. Even if you only consider the American English, the
>English from Trinidad, from India and all territories
>linked in one way or another to the UK (mainly the
>Commonwealth).
>But the complexity is even higher if you consider
>translating concepts that may not perfectly fit, or
>overlapping others. However, the creation of repositories
>of PSIs could help people creating common understanding of
>each other. While people are discussing about words, they
>start understanding the other.
>The diversity must remain, while avoiding a juxtaposition
>of uncorrelated islands that would means multiplication of
>ghettos. Having everybody speaking at least two languages
>(including each French, Chinese and US citizen) is
>probably the best way to ensure the (communication of the)
>future.
>
>By the way, imagine a www existing in Roma in 50 BC. Would
>the web still speak Latin at the present time? In 2900,
>will the English remains "The" language of exchange and
>research it is now?
>
>
>Best regards - Bien à vous - Met vriendelijke groeten
> 
>Tanguy Deschuyteneer
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> 
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>
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>-- Mahatma Gandhi
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:topicmapmail-bounces at infoloom.com] On Behalf Of
>Alexander Johannesen
>Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:37 AM
>To: patrick at durusau.net
>Cc: Simon Grant; TopicMapMail
>Subject: Re: [topicmapmail] PSIs - alternatives
>
>Hiya,
>
>On 6/20/06, Patrick Durusau <patrick at durusau.net> wrote:
>> Reinventing the notion of a universal name set that
>everyone will use, 
>> with or without repositories, is simply a non-starter.
>Even if it is 
>> prefaced with the "sacred" prefix http://.
>
>The library world has three very different mammoth naming
>conventions, and neither of them work except on a rather
>high level, as with anything else. The only reason people
>jump on the URL wagon is that it has been a successful
>resolver on the web, and they confuse the web with
>something solid; doing KR needs things to be a bit more
>solid than that, or else it will turn into the SemWeb. :)
>
>> Rather than chasing the chimera of a universal language
>or naming 
>> convention, why not simply embrace the fact that for all
>sorts of 
>> reasons, some good, some less so, depending on where you
>stand, people 
>> want to identify their subjects differently?
>
>I agree; I'm not sure that even if we *could* do the
>centralised repository thing, we *should*.
>
>> PSI's have a vital role to play even in a diversity
>senario because 
>> they are a public notice that here is how I identify
>subject X. So if 
>> you use some other identifier and merge it with mine,
>then you can 
>> find that subject in either your materials or mine.
>
>I guess the thing is how to merge PSI's together. The
>mechanism is there, but it still needs human intervention
>to do so, and that's the trick.
>
>> Hope you are having a great day!
>
>It's quite excelent, actually; better than in a long time
>... even here in Canberra. Hope yours is equally good!
>
>
>Alex
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