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Re: more politics

• To: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@o...>
• Subject: Re: more politics
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:07:17 -0400
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Jonathan Borden scripsit:

> Can one derive inferences from Topic Maps, that one could not similarly
> derive from an OWL ontology? RDF/OWL makes these sorts of sharp distinctions
> quite easy.

True, a point I made in a later posting.  But in topic maps, the separation
of resource-as-document and resource-as-subject goes right down to the
bottom:  *every* appearance of a URI is unambiguously labeled as one or
the other.  I hold this to be a Good Thing.

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