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What kind of applications would we use the Topic Map structures for? It always helps me to understand this kind of stuff if I can understand a compelling application for it. Dave At 10:28 AM 11/14/98 -0600, you wrote: >The Topic Navigation Map (Topic Map) standard, ISO/IEC 13250, is out for >ballot to become a final committee draft, the last stage before becoming a >full standard. You can find the draft being balloted at ><http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0008.htm>. This ballot lasts until >the end of February. However, in order to progress the standard as quickly >as possible, we'd like to get comments to the editors before the end of the >year. > >The Topic Map standard is similar to RDF in some ways (but has an >essentially different focus and intended domain of application). It is also >designed to be implementable using Xlink. It defines a relatively simple >(but still powerful) approach to representing rich relationships among >information objects. > >If you are working with Xlink, especially extended links, or thinking about >how you might use them productively, I urge you to take a look at the >standard. I have started putting together some examples, both to test the >standard and to use in my Xlink class. I will be posting these as soon as >possible, hopefully within the week. > >NOTE: some of the prose in the standard is currently a bit dense and >abstract. the U.S., France, and Norway have developed comments against the >current draft that should help to make things much clearer (we hope). If >you're trying to read the standard and not getting it, send me mail and >I'll see what I can do to help. The editors are already working on fixing >these problems, but they can't be made officially visible at this time >because of process constraints. > >We all think that topic maps could be a really interesting application of >Xlink. They are, I think, relevant to some of the work that Peter >Murry-Rust has been doing on developing online glossaries and the like. > >Cheers, > >Eliot >-- ><Address HyTime=bibloc> >W. Eliot Kimber, Senior Consulting SGML Engineer >ISOGEN International Corp. >2200 N. Lamar St., Suite 230, Dallas, TX 75202. 214.953.0004 >www.isogen.com ></Address> > >xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... >Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ >To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >(un)subscribe xml-dev >To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >subscribe xml-dev-digest >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > -------------------------------------- http://www.userland.com/directory.html xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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