Re: Typing: was Re: DBpedia as possible project

Hi Andrew,

[...]
> Actually, I was saying that you might actually have both statements
> in the same map, using whichever was most expressive for whatever
> you were trying to say. ;)

Yes, and I definitely like that approach. Inference rules/duck typing
for Topic Maps. ;) While TMRM supports this sort of things out of the
box due to legends, we don't have it in TMDM (at least not in one of
our standards). In TMRM I can put my legend above your topic map and
may get a different view on your data without changing the data
itself. Unfortunately, we don't have that many TMRM tools yet.

[...]
>> No problem at all. But could be a problem if "construction worker" is
>> defined as
>> 
>>   construction-worker ako person.

> Because construction-work is a narrower specialization?

I meant that your Topic Maps engine will deliver "Bob the Builder" [1]
if you ask for all persons in the map. Which may be wrong or correct,
that depends on your view of course.

[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_the_Builder>

Best regards,
Lars
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