Thanks so much for the references! I know some of these papers pretty well, but many were new to me. However, I was on a slightly different track. Let me try to clarify. Assume Topic Maps were to be designed from scratch today, and assume that the creators found that RDF was a good way to express them. What would they be like? I find it reasonable to assume that they would 1. not introduce n-ary relationships 2. not invent roles and role players 3. not invent their own rdf:type/rdfs:subClassOF/rdfs:subPropertyOf 4. not invent a new way of encoding SIs (subject identifiers) 5. not invent their own vocab for names etc (rdfs:label/dc:title) 5. not invent a new way to represent metadata (facets, data etc.) Let us assume that this is the case. What would remain do at all? I am suggesting that the essential feature remaining would be the occurence. Thus, what they would do would be to define an RDF vocabulary for occurences. As far as I know, noone has suggested that. Or am I wrong? /MikaelReceived on Tuesday, 18 June 2002 11:09:01 GMT
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