[sc34wg3] New TMCL slides: pinging LMG's intuition about role-type subjects

[Dmitry]

On 23-Nov-09, at 1:19 PM, Steve Newcomb wrote:

>>
>> You're really raising the issue now of whether we add a rule to  
>> TMCL stating that the same association role type cannot be used in  
>> more than one association type. (Ironically, if we do we'll have to  
>> redo the entire TMCL ontology.)
> Seems like a high price, doesn't it? Of course I'm arguing that the  
> price should be paid, but it's easy for me to argue for improvement  
> because the existing investments in that ontology were not made by  
> me. (I personally would rather be correct than rich, but I recognize  
> that there are other arguably-valid attitudes about that kind of  
> question, and poverty has little to recommend it.)
>
> This seems like a pretty fundamental question to me. Is there no  
> other way forward? How important is one-subject-per-topic to the  
> community? How important is it that Topic Maps has a shared  
> understanding of the semantics of associations, and the semantics of  
> association types, as being relationships and kinds of  
> relationships, respectively? These things are very important to me,  
> but not necessarily important to others.


Alternative approach can be in different TMDM to TMRM mapping.

TMDM Association type + TMDM Association Role Type1 + TMDM Association  
Role Type2    ->    TMRM Association type

TMDM Association type + TMDM Association Role Type1    ->   TMRM  
Association Role Type 1

TMDM Association type + TMDM Association Role Type2   ->   TMRM  
Association Role Type 2


For example,

TMDM  level

transaction (
buyer: * ,
seller:  *,
value_from_buyer_to_seller: *,
value_from_seller_to_buyer: *
)

at TMRM level can look like this

transaction_buyer_seller_value_from_buyer_to_seller_value_from_seller_to_buyer 
  (
buyer_in_transaction_buyer_seller_value_from_buyer_to_seller_value_from_seller_to_buyer 
: * ,
seller_in_transaction_buyer_seller_value_from_buyer_to_seller_value_from_seller_to_buyer 
:  *,
value_from_buyer_to_seller_in_transaction_buyer_seller_value_from_buyer_to_seller_value_from_seller_to_buyer 
: *,
value_from_seller_to_buyer_in_transaction_buyer_seller_value_from_buyer_to_seller_value_from_seller_to_buyer 
: *
)



This approach allows to be 'user friendly' on TMDM level and strict at  
TMRM level.


Dmitry
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