Re: Temporal validitity of subject indicators?

Patrick,

Am 08.05.2011 um 17:42 schrieb Patrick Durusau:

> I am intrigued by your:
>> since you can always add a glue map, while it is impossible to get the mess apart.
> 
> Why so?
> 
> Shouldn't I be about to "undo" a merge like I do editing?

The mess is not caused by a merge operation, the mess is caused because a person reuses but misunderstands a (foreign) subject identifier and attaches statements to a topic which they actually do not belong to. Once both interpretations reach the Topic Maps ecosystem (great term, Andrew!), the damage is done. This you cannot undo no matter how smart you conceive your software, because the software is doing everything right. The human makes the error. Under very special circumstances a correction might be possible, but not in the general case.

Needless to say that these problems apply to any form of reusing foreign identifiers, so it also concerns the Linked Data technology. I am not sure if a similar solution to my separation in content and glue topic maps makes sense there. I do not know the involved technologies well enough.

Best,

Robert