RE: On the integration of Topic Maps and RDF

> > 2 Another is "object layer"  mapping which just encode XTM
> graph as a RDF
> > graph   and semantic is stored implicitly in that graph.
> > The query should contain statements for extracting semantic information
> > such in F-Logic  in the article
> > ...
> > tms:roleLabel->natural-resource;
> > ...
> > or semantic should be provided by inference engine
> >
> > But from the point of view of the article  - to develop query
> engine which
> > can also include XTM resources into  RDF
> > both ways are suitable. The difference is only in queries.
> Information is
> > not lost.
>
> Not lost to a fully capable reasoner, such as a human.  However,
> it is lost
> to an RDF (only)-capable agent.

Yes, so far a human user who understands our mapping has to write a query to
query both sources.

Cheers,

Martin

Received on Thursday, 23 August 2001 19:34:18 UTC