On Apr 2, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Tom De Nies wrote:
> +1
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> I had trouble understanding the reasoning of this example as well..
> In our data model, the email would rather be a collection, and the signature an element of it, rather than a specialization of it.
> A specialization of "this email" would be, for example. the "printed version on my desk", which is a specialization of "my thoughts on this email thread".
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+1 (your phrasing is exactly what FRBR addresses; we're borrowing their notions to create a simpler form with atlOf and specOf)
> Intuitively, I am having trouble coming up with a counterexample of the transitivity of our specialization.
Me too.
-Tim
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> Regards,
> Tom
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> 2012/4/2 Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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> is this example really reflecting specialisation? The signature is contained in the email message. Is it a specialisation of it?
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> On 2 Apr 2012, at 00:11, "Stian Soiland-Reyes" <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
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> > My signature in the end of this email is a specialization of this
> > email message, which is a specialization of my thoughts on this email
> > thread. However the signature is not a specialization of those
> > thoughts.
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