Re: Afghanistan War Diary as topic map in Maiana

Lars Heuer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xtm.general
Organization Semagia
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Marcel,

[...]
> In short: converting raw material into Topic Maps (or RDF) makes it easier
> to apply ontologies. And with this enhanced data we can merge other sources
> like "George W. Bush"-ish sources. Or?

Yes, you can. And adding more useful topics/subjects to the WikiLeaks
Afghanistan topic map was/is my point. I want to see "Taliban",
"Kabul", "Mazari Sharif" and the relationships. I see "Kabul" and
"Mazari Sharif" but no relationships. They are cities and they have
coordinates... . Hmm ...

Maybe I was too harsh/not specific enough with the criticism of the
topic map, but having something as topic map is not a value of its
own. If the topic map is developed further it may become more useful.
Currently, it consists mainly of (IMO) not very useful occurrences
which are a literally translation of CSV data.

Best regards,
Lars
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