Hi Miles,
What you suggest lets me talk about the Published Subejct Inidcator
(i.e. the resource at the address
http://www.altheim.com/bunny/#bid01338), but not about the *identifier*
(i.e. the string "http://www.altheim.com/bunny/#bid01338";).
If you have P.S. Indicator resources, I would suppose that you could
maybe use metadata about that resource as a heuristic for metadata about
the identifier. However, if you have and identifier with no retrievable
resource then obviously that heuristic cannot be applied.
Cheers,
Kal
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 17:43, Miles Thompson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm sure that my first thought on this question of 'addressing PSI as
> subjects' must be wrong (otherwise you wouldn't be talking about this so
> much) but perhaps it will be instructive to point out precisely why this
> thought I had is wrong.
>
>
> Here's how I would've thunk it would work:
>
> 1/
>
> If you wanted to talk about the bunny name "Gabbie" (ie an abstract
> subject) you would, in the normal way create a topic thus:
>
> <topic id="Gabbie">
> <subjectIdentity>
> <subjectIndicatorRef
>
> xlink:href="http://www.altheim.com/bunny/#bid01338"/>
> </subjectIdentity>
> </topic>
>
> 2/
>
> Alternatively, if you wanted to opine on the subject of Murray's PSI
> system per se, making reference to a specific PSI he has constructed,
> couldn't we simply treat the PSI itself as a simple 'addressable
> subject' and define a topic (which could then have meta-data added)
> thus:
>
> <topic id="PSI-For-Gabbie">
> <subjectIdentity>
> <resourceRef
>
> xlink:href="http://www.altheim.com/bunny/#bid01338"/>
> </subjectIdentity>
> </topic>
>
>
> --
>
> What did I miss here?
>
> Miles
>
>
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