V. BLISS [Sigia-l] Quick TopicMaps/XTM question

[Richard Hill]

[Re-posted for "Vivian Bliss" <vbliss at microsoft.com>  because of HTML 
problems.  Dick Hill]

Simon,

XTM 1.0 and TopicMaps (the original 13250 ISO standard) provide the very
general class/subclass that Cesar references and <variant>, which could
cover some equivalence class relations.  XTM and TM intentionally
sidestep any further typing of relations.  I believe that is left up to
interested individuals to extend XTM those directions with Published
Subject Indicators.

The thesaurus standard provides for three subtypings of the hierarchical
class of relations - whole/part, genus/species and instance.  Sounds
like yours is a whole/part type relation.  The best XTM can offer
without extending is the class/subclass.  But stay tuned.

Not an expert yet, but on the path and bound and determined to extend
relation types.

Vivian Bliss
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