[topicmapmail] TMRM Disclosure notation

[Jack Park]

Did you look at versavant? [1]
Are we ready for an XML serialization of the TMRM beyond that which 
already exists in XTM and TMDM?
I think there may be other TMRM implementations that stray outside the 
XML topic maps paradigm besides Versavant and TopicSpaces. Versavant is 
quite far along in pushing the disclosure envelope, whereas TopicSpaces 
simply implements a kind of "upper ontology" that supports or serves as 
an anchor for as many disclosures as you wish to pack inside the 
database. Those disclosures, in TopicSpaces, come in the form of Java 
interface specifications that get compiled. Someday, I'll figure out how 
to render the disclosures in an external format. For now, I just perform 
an XML export and, voila!, you can see what got disclosed.
As I see the TMRM, it describes a platform of disclosure requirements 
with which implementations of all sorts can happen, even those stuffed 
into a spreadsheet. With that platform, we are free to explore the space 
of subject identity methodologies, something that is entirely possible 
within the XML topic maps paradigm, but which can perhaps be more 
efficiently implemented when you are free to design your own property 
objects. The jury is still out. Actually, the jury is really just now 
leaving the courtroom. There remains much to explore.

Jack
[1] http://versavant.org/

Alexander Johannesen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any examples of TMRM Disclosure notation? I'm
> fiddling with a TMRM XML format and was wondering if anyone has barked
> up this perticular tree?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex