RE: Mapping files?

*Kal Ahmed:

> Unfortunately it would appear that Mr. Udell has attempted to hijack the
> phrase "topic map" as what he describes there might be a topic map, but
> its "not a topic map as we know it, Jim".

Quick and dirty topic maps have a lot of value. It all depends
on the context of use. I don't agree about the term "hijacking".
It's not because it's simple that it's not good. Sometimes,
this is precisely because it's simple that it's powerful.

> What Mr. Udell describes is, as far as I can see, just simple
> categorisation - he creates a category (calling it a topic) and then
> attaches one or more resource addresses to each category. You can do the
> same thing in topic maps by creating topics and adding occurrences to
> them. You can do much more with topic maps besides this - you can create
> relationships between topics...any kind of relationship you can think of
> in fact; and you can use types and scope to make the information you put
> into your topic map as valuable as the resources that it points to.

It's OK what you say but you're not obliged to do it if
you don't want to.


Michel
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