[sc34wg3] Re: Montreal meeting recommendations

[Lars Marius Garshol]

Hi Michel,

* Michel Biezunski
| 
| I don't have time now to answer in detail to all of them, [...]

That need not be a problem, but I do hope you'll have time to get
round to them later.
 
* Lars Marius Garshol
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| Also, one question to SRN & MB that I personally have is: what is the
| purpose of the core model? What are its goals? Why is it being written?
| I know the PMTM4 document says something about this, but it's not
| obvious that this text necessarily applies to the new situation.
| Englightenment on this issue would be very much welcome.
 
* Michel Biezunski
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| You should check the slide presentation we did at the Semantic Web
| Workshop in Stanford (look for it at www.topicmaps.net and under
| "Recent presentations". This should contain material that will
| answer (at least) some of the questions you are asking.

I've read it now, and am no wiser than I was. (You did mean the "Topic
Maps Unclothed" presentation?) I see lots of talk about what topic
maps can do, which is fine, but nothing about PMTM4. What I am asking
is the purpose of the core model, not of topic maps. What does the
core model give us beyond what the infoset model does?

--Lars M.