[sc34wg3] Are topic maps about knowledge representation?

[Sam Hunting]

If we make this one word change:

|   On 14 Jul 2002, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
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| > 
| > I started from Nikita's version, but made a tiny change:
| > 
| > * Nikita Ogievetsky
| > |
| > | Topic maps are abstract structures which encode [author's] knowledge
| >                                         can  
| >                                         |
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we make the marketing claim that topic maps encode knowledge without
saying that this is all they can do. (I thought that Kal's objection,
which Nikita seems to share, that there is no knowledge without a knower,
was cogent, and no we can all come up with use cases where topic maps do
someting other than transfer knowledge, while still having value.)

Now if our arms are tired from  beating the dead horse of "knowledge",
perhaps "information" will not be quite so tiring.

Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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