[sc34wg3] TM Data Model issue: assoc-role-player-type

[Robert Barta]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:24:08PM +0100, Steve Pepper wrote:
> * Geir Ove Gr?nmo
> | * Kal Ahmed
> | | I think it makes more sense to require the [role playing topic] property
> | | to be non-null.
> | |
> | | If you want to say that  the player is unknown, then you should be
> | | required to create a topic to represent the "unknown" entity...
> |
> | I like this solution: mandatory role types and "blank" topics for
> | "missing" role player references.
> 
> This does have a downside, though: You would have to create a topic
> for *every* '"unknown" entity' in the topic map -- you couldn't use
> the same topic for each one, otherwise you would get undesired
> merging.

Well, yes! If TMs are about defining topics for known entities, why
not create topics for unknown ones?

For your exercise you can try to map the 'Rumsfeld Poetry':

   rumsfeld-poetry (parody)
   bn: Rumsfeld parody (or maybe not)
   oc: http://slate.msn.com/id/2081042/

:-) \rho