[sc34wg3] Very rough draft of possible proposal for 13250-1/TR

[Patrick Durusau]

Greetings!

I have posted a very rough draft of a possible proposal for ISO 13250-1 
or a TR to replace that part of the standard.

http://www.durusau.net/publications/tm_index_intro_0.10.pdf

The *real* draft is due mid-August for the SC 34 meeting in September 
but I wanted to post this pre-draft version to get as much feedback as 
possible. The actual ISO draft will be posted to the document repository.

The basic theme of the document is to start where topic maps started, 
with indexes and to take a fairly simple example forward through the 
various parts of the standard.

Three observations:

1) Yes, there could be more examples but one of my goals is to have a 
framework into which *other* index examples from other fields could be 
easily inserted. If people identify subjects differently, doesn't it 
stand to reason that they will respond to examples differently? That is 
to say that examples from their areas of interest are likely to be more 
compelling?

2. Yes, there needs to be use of the examples under TMCL, TMQL and a 
strong conclusion. I just ran out of time and wanted to get this posted.

3. No, no I haven't proofed it for typos, spelling/grammar errors, 
errors in the examples or syntax. I just typed it out and pasted in 
suggestions from Naito-san and others and posted it. This is truly a 
"rough" draft. ;-)

I do think this document needs to be short enough for a person to read 
in say 20 or so minutes so that puts the page limit somewhere between 18 
to 25 pages.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
patrick at durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)