- From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 18:04:28 -0000
- To: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
I've had a go at doing a mapping between some topics from the topicexchange system to categories from the open directory. The mappings are online at ... <http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/SWAD/rdf/te_dmoz_map.rdf> What could such a mapping be used for? Well, for example, lets say I'm viewing the 'Matrix' channel on topicexchange. There could be a link from this page saying 'view relevant pages from dmoz'. The page at the end of this link could use the mapping to retrieve the pages from the dmoz categories that are most relevant to the 'Matrix' topic in topicexchange. Considering this kind of scenario, it occurs to me that there could be a strong argument for defining matches simply as a list, ordered by relevance. I'm going to call this an 'ordered' mapping. So I could represent the 'Matrix' mapping simply as ... Topic Exchange --> Open Directory The Matrix 1. Arts/Movies/Titles/M/Matrix_Series/ 2. Games/Roleplaying/Genres/Science_Fiction/Matrix,_The/ 3. Games/Video_Games/Action/E/Enter_the_Matrix/ 4. Games/Video_Games/Action/Massive_Multiplayer_Online/Matrix_Online,_The/ 5. Arts/Movies/Genres/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy/ 6. Arts/Literature/Genres/Cyberpunk/ .. rather than as ... The Matrix narrow-match Arts/Movies/Titles/M/Matrix_Series/ narrow-match Games/Roleplaying/Genres/Science_Fiction/Matrix,_The/ narrow-match Games/Video_Games/Action/E/Enter_the_Matrix/ narrow-match Games/Video_Games/Action/Massive_Multiplayer_Online/Matrix_Online,_The/ broad-match Arts/Movies/Genres/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy/ broad-match Arts/Literature/Genres/Cyberpunk/ ... which was the best 'traditional-style' mapping I could come up with. I think it would be worth having a further discussion on the 'ordered' versus 'traditional' mappings. Al. CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Building R1 Room 1.60 Fermi Avenue Chilton Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0QX United Kingdom Email: a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)1235 445440
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