- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:15:56 -0500
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Cc: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Technical Architecture Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>, Susie Stephens <susie.stephens@gmail.com>
>Pat Hayes scripsit: > >> >Subjects, in accordance with the OED's definition 13a: "That which forms, >> >or is chosen as, the matter of thought, consideration, or inquiry; a >> >topic, theme." Using "subject" rather than "object" or "thing" allows >> >us to talk about the imaginary as well as the real. >> >> Yes, that does avoid a potential problem with "thing". And its close >> to, but not identical to, "topic". > >In topic-maps terminology, subjects are what the SW calls resources, >whereas topics are concrete partial models of subjects, data structures >in memory or an XML document. A topic map, therefore, contains topics >but describes subjects. OK, thanks for the correction, I got that wrong. Pat > >> Just make sure to avoid the grammatical implication, is all. > >Or any of the other fourteen main senses of "subject" the noun, >to say nothing of "subject" the adjective or the verb. > >-- >My corporate data's a mess! John Cowan >It's all semi-structured, no less. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > But I'll be carefree cowan@ccil.org > Using XSLT >On an XML DBMS. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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