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Re: Services-based automation (WAS RE: Realistic proposals to the W3C?)

• From: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@s...>
• To: Jonathan Borden <jborden@m...>,"Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@h...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:02:49 +0100

Jonathan
> 
> It seems there is overlap between the capabilities of RDF and Topic Maps,
> which is one reason many people are hoping that the two efforts can be
> integrated.

I'm in the process of writing an XML Schema that maps Topic Maps to XLink in a logical manner. Hopefully this will help. But you must not confuse the RDF Description with Topic Maps. RDF simply assigns Metadata to resources. It cannot be used to name nodes within resources, or to define the relationships between types of nodes, which is what Topic Maps are all about (as well as allowing you to assign metadata to resources in the form of facet values).

Martin Bryan

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