[Sigia-l] Distributed thesaurus?

[karl fast]

> XFML is the most promising recent development effort I've seen in
> this area, but I wonder if anyone has seen another that might be a
> potential standard. I'm looking at Karl while I ask this, but of
> course it's an open question.

Ummm, guess I should respond to this.

The short answer is that I don't know enough to give a coherent and
intelligent answer because:

  - my knowledge of XFML is just slightly more than zip (but would
    like to change that) 

  - I have given zero thought to the issues of a distributed
    thesaurus (after a seven week holiday, four of those weeks
    backpacking, I am still trying to get caught up with "life").

    
My gut reaction as a developer and IA is that it sounds pretty cool.

My gut reaction as someone who understands facets (more or less) is
that implementation will be difficult due to all the semantic
entanglements.

Still, in the fiften seconds I've devoted to mulling this over I am
intrigued.

--karl