[sc34wg3] Are topic maps about knowledge representation?

Nikita Ogievetsky sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
Sun, 14 Jul 2002 18:21:45 -0700


Nikita:
> | Topic maps are abstract structures which encode author's knowledge

Lars:
> I took out "author," since there need not be a human author anywhere
> in the process.

I think that if there is no human author anywhere in the process, then it is
not
a knowledge, but information.
Lars, can you give an example of creating a topic map without human
intervention?

--Nikita.