[topicmapmail] TMRM Disclosure notation

[Alexander Johannesen]

On 11/21/06, Jack Park <jackpark at thinkalong.com> wrote:
> Did you look at versavant? [1]

Thanks; I'll dig into it for the next few days.

> Are we ready for an XML serialization of the TMRM beyond that which
> already exists in XTM and TMDM?

I know *I* am, but that's perhaps irellevant? :)

> I think there may be other TMRM implementations that stray outside the
> XML topic maps paradigm besides Versavant and TopicSpaces.

Some of the stuff I'm doing can't easily be done in the TMDM space,
and in fact, I find it terribly frustrating at times, creating kludges
and hacks that feels wrong and makes me sleep poorly at night. I'm
just trying to get some good sleep, that's all.

> 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.

Yeah. I guess I could do this, and I don't *need* to exchange
disclosures, so it's not urgent, but I would *love* to do this,
especially as I'm promoting the wonderfulness of TM merging. The
"bucket" mentality we've used up until now has both advantages and
drawbacks, and one of the bigger drawbacks is the disclosures part
that the TMRM gives us, where more formalisation of ontology work can
be put. (I suppose extensions to the TMDM could be made, but I'm not
sure that's wanted?)

Anyways, if anyone has some good ideas, let's flush 'em out.


Alex
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