[sc34wg3] Are topic maps about knowledge representation?

[Sam Hunting]

[patrick duruseau]
> Personally I would relegate whatever claims one wants to make about 
> topic maps to marketing literature and similar genres but don't feel it 
> is worth the group's time to debate where such claims should be made. 

Since I believe that topic maps are sets of knowledge-bearing assertions,
I don't have problems with the k-word (though Kal's objections are
cogent).

However, Patrick, I  understand how, using the standard you sketch above,
it would be possible for *any* marketing claim to be rejected from
inlcusion in the standard.

Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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