- From: Richard Light <richard@light.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 10:42:28 +0100
- To: Thomas Bandholtz <thomas@bandholtz.info>
- Cc: "Miles, AJ (Alistair)" <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>, 'Jan Grant' <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>, public-esw-thes@w3.org, public-esw@w3.org
In message <06c001c42eed$e904cfb0$fe78a8c0@Thomast40>, Thomas Bandholtz <thomas@bandholtz.info> writes >It never should by default!! A well established thesaurus easily counts >100.000s and more concepts! The requester (be it human or machine) must be >able to identify the thesaurus source without downloading the whole thing. > >I my personal vision, the "whole thing" *never* will be downloaded at once: >avoid redunancy, and what the hell are we doing here? --- >We are establish means to *link to specific* concepts and make clear where >the come from. Absolutely. Assuming that the machine-readable description of the thesaurus concept contains similarly-formatted references to its "neighbouring" concepts (or that there is a form of query you can issue which returns "all concepts with a link to this one"), then you can browse up and down the thesaurus tree structure from the starting concept by issuing multiple requests - if that is what you wish to do. Richard Light -- Richard Light SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy richard@light.demon.co.uk
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