[sc34wg3] Extending scope semantics

[Ann M Wrightson]

IMO scope is currently a marble-cake of a notion, where the chocolate is
"scope is metadata on a characteristic assignment" and the vanilla is "scope
is a theory about a charactersitic assignment". The set-theoretic notion we
know & love/hate is a decent munge of this (phenomenological?) confusion.

(I can't remember where I said before that) IMO eventually the concept of
scope will need to become a separable "module" in the topic map concept,
with a defined interface/behaviour based on how it is used in elementary
topicmap operations. Any acceptable model of scope must then have a
"dumb-down" (a forgetful, faithful mapping) to the simple scope model (what
we now have).

Ann W.

-----Original Message-----
From: sc34wg3-admin@isotopicmaps.org
[mailto:sc34wg3-admin@isotopicmaps.org]On Behalf Of Kal Ahmed
Sent: 04 July 2002 22:33
To: sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
Subject: [sc34wg3] Extending scope semantics


Hi all,

The recent discussions on scope had got me thinking and as a result I have
written a short paper on an approach to extending the concept of scope as it
currently exists in XTM/HyTM. The paper can be found at
http://www.techquila.com/scope-proposal.html.

I would welcome any comments !

Cheers,

Kal

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Kal Ahmed, techquila.com
XML and Topic Map Consultancy

e: kal@techquila.com
p: +44 7968 529531
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