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Lisa wrote: > It's not a question of which one is better. > > It's a question of figuring out what we want to do first, now > that we are going to be able to use them together. Its not a question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, its a question of what can you do with each of them given their unique properties. Like chalk and cheese they serve very different pruposes. An RDF statement normally assigns a set of characteristics to a single resource, either by being embedded within that resource or be referencing it. Topic Maps state which sets of resources share a single characteristic. They also has the advantage of being able to characterize characteristics (using scopes and associations). > It's downright exciting! Both RDF and Topic Maps have the same weakness: They are only as good as the semantics they are based on. Neither provides a standardized mechanism for recording the meaning of the characteristic
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