Re: Semantic Bleachers: was Re: Afghanistan War Diary as topic map in Maiana

Richard Light <richard-wLOraGfDqaUCqOQrDF6SL1pr/1R2p/[email protected]>
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In message <4210185588.20101103151129-0vbsL0CoYrBBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>, Lars Heuer 
<[email protected]> writes

>> Isn't that what Mappify already does? [1]
>
>Yes, it does. But it uses a limited mapping. It translates only
>several names, the abstracts and a few associations to Topic Maps. I
>always wondered why nobody complained about the poor mapping. :)

Because we all said "that's cool!", and left it at that, I guess.  I for 
one was certainly encouraged to find that this had been done.

>I am
>unsure if I published the mapping somewhere. But I can do that. The
>mappings are written in CRTM [3].

That would indeed be useful.  There may be a case for beefing up the 
mapping to support specific types of entity (people, places, etc.).

Richard
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