[tmcl-wg] Re: [topicmapmail] PSIs?

[Mary Nishikawa]

>*Lars Marius Garshol
> > That means that the W3C has already defined these URIs as identifying
> > what you are describing them as identifying in your PSI set. That
> > means that you don't have to do anything except tell your users which
> > PSIs to use and how to use them with topic maps.
> >
> > In other words: you don't have to define any new URIs. RDF is already
> > using the XSD ones. All you really need to do is annotate them with
> > information about how to use them in topic maps.

*Martin Bryan
>I must support the above view. Please remember that topic maps are not the
>only SC34 standard that needs to reference the W3C datatypes. We need a
>single mechanism that all SC34 standards can use consistently. While the
>PURL approach might be a viable and acceptable alternative, SC34 has formal
>liaison routes to W3C which we can use to formally request permission to
>adopt OWL's URLs as a standardized mechanism for referencing the datatypes.
>As we can easily arrange for such a request to be sent to W3C at the London
>meeting in a couple of weeks time, and as I can get the UK office of W3C to
>chase up a response on this issue for us from MIT, I don't see why we should
>have any real delay if we adopt such a strategy.

Sounds great Martin.

I totally agree with this, and propose adding it to the requirement for TMCL.
See the link here for how they are used in OWL now.
http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/#rdf-datatype

Cheers,
Mary