[sc34wg3] Topic Maps land and SAM land

Michel Biezunski sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:20:43 -0500


*Lars:

> I think you are confusing nodes with assertions, Michel. Slide 10 has
> the title "Diagram of a 2-role assertion". So the diagram shows one
> assertion, which has 8 nodes in it. So the statement "George has a
> medical degree from Harvard" is here shown represented with a single
> assertion, and to create that assertion you need 8 nodes.

Oops. Thanks Lars. Yes I did a confusion but not with nodes,
with arcs. In any case, an RDF statement is still not equivalent to an RM
assertion. You need several RM assertions to describe an RDF statement.

Michel
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