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Hello Uche, (sorry previous e-mail wen away a little bit unfinished.) > > > But as far as I know (I might be wrong, please correct me if this is > the > > > case) > > > RDF has no STANDARD! way to carry forward the origin of opinion. > > > > > > > RDF does have a standard way to declare the origin of a statement (presume > > an opinion is derived from a statement). This is the distinction between a > > statement and stating and is the point of statement "reification". The point > > is that since everything is a resource, one can make statements about > > statements which is how I assume one might make a statement regarding the > > origin of a statement. > > If I understand Nikita correctly (which I hope I'm finally beginning to), > his point is not that there is no meta-statement facility at all, but that > there is no standard vocabulary for the arcs from the reified statement to the > node representing the attributed party (or vice versa). > > If I interpret him correctly, then, as I told him, this is not the role of > RDF, and there is no reason not to just use the vocab from topic maps for > this purpose. > Yes, you are absolutely right! I also believe that I was talking to much :-)) Because besides other things I also said: [Nikita] > Now note that XTM is Topic Maps concept expressed in XML syntax using simple > XLink (XML Topic Maps). > There can be an RDF syntax for Topic Maps! I meant RDF Schema, but probably it is more correct to call it RDF vocab? ( may be I not using the right language?) However there is one very important issue to watch out in RTM: [Nikita] > The problem is that just RDF Topic Maps syntax is not enough. > You will need additional software modules to take care of certain > constraints and the processing model. I.e. Topic Maps conceptual / processing model is really important !! Thanks, Nikita. ------------------------------------------------------- Nikita Ogievetsky, Cogitech Inc. http://www.cogx.com nogievet@c... (917)406-8734 Consultant in XML/XSLT/Xlink/TopicMaps Cogito Ergo XML
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