Sandy said:
First, from
our perspective, we believe that a converged structural and behavioral model
is required to bring context and coherence to the systems world. A context
incorporates conventional software object-oriented semantics, however its
model deals more precisely with knowledge through higher order cognitive
constructs. These semantics are layered on top of a software object, one that
employs inheritance, encapsulation and polymorphic language mechanisms.
Approaching system development from a context information modeling perspective
is particularly valuable for aligning complex and variable requirements, even
across a multitude of organizations with different processes.
Danny:
Couldn't most of this be
said about *any* knowledge representation system written in an OO language? If
I write a Java class called 'Concept', it incorporates OO semantics,
(inheritance, encapsulation and polymorphic language mechanisms). If I give it
an attribute 'name' with accessor methods, I've added a higher order
cognitive construct...
So I'm not really getting
an idea of what a 'context' (in this context ;-) actually is.
Would I be right in
thinking the aims are something like those of Network
Inference:
Now at
36%...
Cheers,
Danny.
Topic
maps is just one corner for such a converged world. At this time, let me
introduce you to CoreSystem. Please download a comprehensive CoreSystem
animated illustration from the following FTP site:
http://www.cyberseek.com/Coretalk/CoreSystem.PC.zip
Or
for the Mac:
http://www.cyberseek.com/Coretalk/CoreSystem.MAC.zip
You
will probably be most interested in reviewing the Knowledge Space element of
CoreSystem for a discussion of Topic Maps (frame
13).
Cheers,
Sandy
> At 01:55 PM 3/8/2003, Sandy Klausner wrote:
>> A resource is context, whereas a topic is
content.
>
> I would
think that, technically speaking, resources are not topics, but
> they
can be the subjects of topics, and, thus, treated as if they are
topics.
>
> Now, a resource as context? And a topic as
content?
>
> Please explain.
>
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