Re: The AF war diary

Hi Aki,

[...]
> What I see an important issue in modelling AWD data fields as 
> occurrences is trust. With occurrences you can always be sure that the
> information in occurrence is not somehow merged with other topics. Sure
> one can build what ever kind of topic/association realms upon this 
> occurence layer but those would really be interpretations of occurrences
> and you might want to trace the original information.

I think the "trust" argument is no excuse for bad Topic Maps
modelling practice. The original source is available and if you have a
proper mapping to Topic Maps it should be documented how a tuple is
mapped to Topic Maps. It may even be possible to translate the topic
map back to the CVS/RDBMS source (depends on the generated topic map).

> Here is an idea for upcoming TMRA 2011 conference: A competion to build
> best enriching topic map(s) for the original AWD topic map. Hell, it 
> could be an annual competition. :)

Good idea. :)

Best regards,
Lars
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