Re: [xml-dev] XML Vocabularies for Large Systems - 3 Philosophica lly Different Approaches

pretty soon we'll be talking normalisation and data dictionaries again ;)

rick

ps i thought this was exactly the domain of the semantic web.....

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

>And BTW, your question doesn't deal with hypermedia 101 
>related to associativity:  what about 
>designs that have a metadata layer such as a topic map?
>That is easier than top-down control or bottom-up merging 
>of vocabularies because it takes care of the semantic 
>integration vis a vis mapping even if not by actually merging 
>the values.
>
>len
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