Re: SUO: RE: Topic Maps
Douglas McDavid wrote:
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> Frederick N. Chase" <fnc@mitre.org> writes:
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> > 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.
Fred:
If Topic Maps was proposed as an "informative form" for the IEEE SUO,
possibly in addition to controlled english,
then I agree. But in that case, I think one informative form is plenty.
If however, Topic Maps was proposed as a means of
documenting, explicating, and providing (tutorial) access to the
"normative form" of the IEEE SUO
written in, say, KIF, and recorded, say, in ASCII
then I disagree.
>
> Doug McDavid
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>
> "Frederick N. Chase" <fnc@mitre.org>@ieee.org on 02/14/2001 05:53:59 AM
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> Please respond to "Frederick N. Chase" <fnc@mitre.org>
>
> Sent by: owner-standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org
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> To:
> cc: standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org
> Subject: Re: SUO: RE: Topic Maps
>
> "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