[sc34wg3] Possible TMRM issue

Jack Park jackpark at gmail.com
Mon Mar 20 09:05:52 EST 2006


Speling was never my strong sute ;(


On 3/19/06, Patrick Durusau <patrick at durusau.net> wrote:
>
> Jack,
>
> I think the point of confusion was your spelling of "legend" (correct)
> as "legand" (incorrect).
>
> Odd that I should notice the error since I think Newcomb had to correct
> my spelling of compel in various forms with any number of "l"s quite
> often. I guess I just happen to like the letter "l". ;-)
>
> Hope you are having a great day!
>
> Patrick
>
> Jack Park wrote:
>
> > Nope. The latest TMRM makes reference to a "Legand", as in the kind of
> > "legand" you find on street maps. You know, where you go to find out
> > which symbols stand for streets, highways, dirt roads, distance
> > measures, that sort of thing. The TMRM has adapted that language to
> > name an object (Legand) where subject identity metrics for the
> > specific subject map are declared.  In TopicSpaces, an application is
> > a kind of legand layered on top of a core, um, legand. I am
> > interpreting the TMRM to allow the notion of Legand to be extensible.
> > As I understand the TMRM (and we are all bound to interpret it in
> > different ways, I suppose), the process of merging allows for the
> > creation of a new Legand which is somehow a union of the legands of
> > two other maps which are asked to merge. How legands are to be
> > represented remains to be developed. As I understand the TMRM, it
> > works very hard (sorry for the anthromorphicism here) to remain
> > ontology neutral, so much so that even declaring a serialization or a
> > legand architecture remains undeclared. I think that's valuable in the
> > beginning.
> >
> > Jack
> >
> > On 3/19/06, *Conal Tuohy* <Conal.Tuohy at vuw.ac.nz
> > <mailto:Conal.Tuohy at vuw.ac.nz>> wrote:
> >
> >     Jack Park wrote:
> >
> >     > I have a slightly extended riff on using applications, what I am
> now
> >     interpreting
> >     > to be called "legands",
> >
> >     I'm confused - do you mean "ligands"?
> >
> >     Con
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