[sc34wg3] Are topic maps about knowledge representation?

[Patrick Durusau]

Kal,

Kal Ahmed wrote:

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>
> IMHO "knowledge" is either a philosophical term or a buzz-word. One 
> route leads to 2000 years of epitomological debate and the other leads 
> to a misunderstanding and a pigeon-holing of the technology. In either 
> case it should be avoided in a standard.

Ironic that responding starts us down the route of the epistemology 
debate in order to evaluate the response! ;-)

I concede to Steve's request on the grounds that consumers of the 
standard will parse that as carefully as they did the XTM charter to 
determine if I am an orginal, legitimate, founding member or merely an 
original, possibly legitimate, founding member, or an original, 
foundling member or some other category of member. ;-)

Personally I would relegate whatever claims one wants to make about 
topic maps to marketing literature and similar genres but don't feel it 
is worth the group's time to debate where such claims should be made. 

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu