Re: Arcs
Lars Heuer <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.xml.xtm.general |
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| Organization | Semagia |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Xuân, [...] > * for building bridges between TMDM and RDF: If a TMDM association > encapsulates the essence of an RDF triple, then an arc > encapsulates the essence of an RDF predicate. There are 2 Why don't you use rdf:object, rdf:predicate, rdf:object directly? A minor problem of the arcs proposal is that it seems to imply a direction, but TMDM's edges (associations) are undirected (unlike RDF's triples and TMRM's edges). [...] > So, what does the community think about arcs? I think it is time to > create some community modeling standards, and something like arcs should > be parts of these standards. I am skeptical because I am afraid that it leads to a bad modelling practice where the author puts everything into "arcs" and does not care about properly defined role types anymore. Best regards, Lars -- Semagia <http://www.semagia.com> <http://www.topicmaps.de/mailinglist/> German Topic Maps mailing list <http://tinytim.sourceforge.net/> Open Source Topic Maps engine <http://mappa.semagia.com/> Mappa - Python Topic Maps engine