Re: SUO: RE: Topic Maps

["Douglas McDavid" <mcdavid@us.ibm.com>]

Frederick N. Chase" <fnc@mitre.org>  writes:

> But I note that Topic Maps allow users to
> "connect information from diverse information
> sources, including ... legacy data."
> This is not a problem that we will have.

My interpretation of the following section of the
SUO Scope and Purpose statement assumes that this is
*exactly* the kind of problem we hope to address:

     c. Owners of existing systems will be able to map existing data
elements just once to a common ontology, and thereby gain a degree of
interoperability with other representations that conform to SUO.


Doug McDavid
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Business Innovation Services - IBM, US
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"Frederick N. Chase" <fnc@mitre.org>@ieee.org on 02/14/2001 05:53:59 AM

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"West, Matthew MR SSI-GREA-UK" wrote:
> ....
> Some responses please?
>.....


I followed the reference and ended up at
http://www.TopicMaps.org/about.html

I tried to follow two links
( [ISO 13250] and [XTM1] ), but they were broken.

So I put "Topic Map" into Alta Vista and found

http://www.hightext.com/Examples/wsweb/tp33.htm and, indirectly,
http://www.infoloom.com/ .

My impression is that use of Topic Maps could enhance
user access to an IEEE SUO.

But I note that Topic Maps allow users to
"connect information from diverse information sources, including ... legacy
data."
This is not a problem that we will have.

Also, it seems likely that a debate would emerge on how the topics and
relations
used within the IEEE SUO Topic Map should be related to the IEEE SUO
itself.

   -Fred Chase