[topicmapmail] Question of the week : the TMDM PSIs in TM engines

[marijane white]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Alexander Johannesen wrote:

>> Personally, I'd like to think that defining these kind of types (the 
>> most general concepts such as "part_of", "part", "whole", etc., that 
>> is) in a document of authority would be good.
>
> I'd love us to do something like this, maybe here on this
> mailing-list, if I may be so bold. Wrap it up in a supplement SAM
> document, or something? Would make waves.

Section 8 of ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 covers a wide variety of semantic 
relationships in reasonable detail, it might be useful as a starting point 
reference for such a discussion.

http://www.niso.org/kst/reports/standards?step=2&gid=None&project_key%3Austring%3Aiso-8859-1=7cc9b583cb5a62e8c15d3099e0bb46bbae9cf38a

or
http://tinyurl.com/z3919



Marijane White