Re: TMDM and merging associations

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:10:39AM +0200, Steve Pepper wrote:

> I (personally) believe there will come a time, as topic maps become
> more and more complex, when users will start to feel the need to --
> and see the advantage of being able to -- talk about a particular
> subject from the (restricted) perspective of its relationship to
> some other subject.

The time and need for *this* (if I interpret that correctly) is
already here, and has been for some time. It has been approached
by pretty much all post-modern languages in form of "traits"

  trait isa language-feature
    wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trait_(computer_science)

How to connect this to topic map roles is left as exercise for the
reader ;-)

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