Re: [topicmapmail] RDF and TopicMaps: an Exercise in Convergence

[ann wrightson]
> The ideas behind RDF and topic maps show IMO a v. clear duality
> between resource-centred and subject-centred information organization
> respectively (straight out of classic information science!).

I ask again:

In a topic map, a human is the ultimate arbiter of subject identity.

Is the same true for an RDF resource?

If it is not, any mapping between RDF and topic maps is a purely formal
exercise, since the semantics [sic] of the resource and the topic are
completely different.

S.

=====
<!-- "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life."
     - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations -->

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 
a year!  http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/