Interoperable Logging WAS: Re: [topicmapmail] Questions About XTMOccurrence Semantics

[Peter P. Jones]

Hi Conal,

Conal Tuohy wrote:

[...]
> I believe the standard practice for this kind of thing is to use scope.
> It's quite simple to use scoping topics to attach metadata to an
> occurrence. In my work, I am frequently harvesting topic maps from a
> variety of sources, and merging them. I create a topic to represent a
> source topic map, and all occurrences harvested from that source are
> automatically scoped with that particular harvest topic. The harvest
> topic then has any necessary metadata attached. See the documentation on
> the XTM mergeMap element:
> http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/index.html#elt-mergeMap

That looks like an XTM 1.0 process.

I have a worry that the process you describe doesn't seem to match up 
with the forthcoming version of mergeMap
http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-xtm/#d0e1268
(2006-06-19 version)

Sincerely,
Peter