[Sigia-l] Question about the use of the term 'ontology'

[Peter Van Dijck]

Terminology alert. "Subject" in the topicmap world isn't the same as 
"subject" in the library science (or IA) world. I think. Lars?

Peter

> Interesting. I was under the impression that topics are reified subjects 
> (from
> reading the paper called The TAO of Topic Maps -
> http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.html#d0e657), so how can 
> they be
> nested within a taxonomy of subject-based classifications? In other 
> words, I
> don't see a topic as a type of subject, but as something that a subject may
> become. I'm possibly jumping to a conclusion that wasn't intended -- 
> that by
> nesting topic maps under subject-based classification, that topics would be
> nested under subjects... thoughts?
> 
> By the same token, I'd think that subject-based classifications reify
> ontologies. Maybe what we need is a way to express the way these things 
> become
> each other -- a sort of state change diagram perhaps?
> 
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