RE: SUO: RE: Topic Maps
Dear Frederick,
See responses below.
Regards
Matthew
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederick N. Chase [mailto:fnc@mitre.org]
> Sent: 14 February 2001 13:54
> Cc: standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org
> Subject: Re: SUO: RE: Topic Maps
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> "West, Matthew MR SSI-GREA-UK" wrote:
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> > Some responses please?
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> I followed the reference and ended up at
> http://www.TopicMaps.org/about.html
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> I tried to follow two links
> ( [ISO 13250] and [XTM1] ), but they were broken.
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> So I put "Topic Map" into Alta Vista and found
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> http://www.hightext.com/Examples/wsweb/tp33.htm and, indirectly,
> http://www.infoloom.com/ .
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> My impression is that use of Topic Maps could enhance
> user access to an IEEE SUO.
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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.
MW: Why not? Like Doug, as far as I can see it is a problem we (or at least
some of us) already have.
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> 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.
MW: Well there will always be a debate on how to use a tool.
I see topic maps being used in two ways.
1. Topic maps could be used to manage and link up the SUO, especially if we
developed it as a set of relatively small interdependent theories.
2. Elements in the SUO could become topics that topic maps that others
develop could use to organise their information.
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> -Fred Chase
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