Re: Afghanistan War Diary as topic map in Maiana

Hi Lutz,

> there is a new topic map available in Maiana which might be in interest
> for you. Under [1] you will find the 2004 time slice of the Afghanistan
> War Diary. The original data is purchased by WikiLeaks; we transformed

Great. But where is the additional value?

Someone converted the WikiLeaks somehow to a topic map. Great...

If I look at the topic map through Maiana I see a translation of the
WikiLeaks report. Again, where is the additional value if a user sees
an occurrences like (among like other duplicates):

    [...]
    * 2004-01-02 00:00:00 : SURV Other
    * 2004-01-02 00:00:00 : SURV Other
    [...]

Where is the additional value of using Topic Maps?

Don't understand me wrong, WikiLeaks on Topic Maps would be great, but
the current translation of WikiLeaks sounds like a 1:1 mapping of
MARC(XML) to Topic Maps.

Best regards,
Lars
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