Title: Message
Max,
TC,
With
regard to taxonomy representations, I suggest the following modeling approach (I
will use Topic Maps for illustration). First, a categorization tModel is
created to represent all Topic Maps taxonomies. Specific topics/topic maps
are then represented as separate tModels (lets call them Topic Maps instances)
categorized by the Topic Maps categorization tModel. One of the
overviewDocs of those Topic Maps instances should point to the XTM or ISO/IEC
13250 document describing the taxonomy structure ("associations" in the case of
Topic Maps).
These
Topic Maps instance tModels could then be used in categoryBags to
categorize information in the registry with their keyReferences' keyValues
containing the value of the topic's ID. If it is impossible to
identify a source attribute to assign to the keyValue attribute, then the Topic
Maps categorization tModel should provide documentation on the coding method for
keyValue based on attributes of Topic Maps representation schema. This
method should reliably generate unique values within the key space of each Topic
Maps instance.
This
assessment is based purely on the information provided by Max (and my
assumptions about the untold) and may be unimplementable due to obstacles beyond
Max's review.
Generalizing this approach for all other taxonomy
representation formats, we can support a limited subset of taxonomy functions
(no API's yet) identified at the FTF by delegating them to taxonomy
specialists and simultaneously providing a way to integrate their work into
UDDI.
Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: Max Voskob
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Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 11:54
AM
To: uddi-spec
Subject: [uddi-spec] Summary of standards
for external taxonomies
Hi all ;)
Me (Max) and Matthew prepared a short
summary about possible standards for external taxonomies.
Please, find a minute and familiarise yourself
with what's available at the moment.
If you think that any of the proposed standards
is the way to go - speak up.
If you are aware about another standard that is
not included in the doco - speak up too.
Cheers,
Max
