[sc34wg3] Look Ma! No Properties!

[Patrick Durusau]

Robert,

Thought we might better start with a clean sheet of paper! ;-)

Ok, the \tau model has no properties.

So, I assume that properties will either appear later in the \tau model 
or as some other part the topic map standard.

Realize that time is short but I want to make sure I understand how the 
\tau model eventually arrives at/supports what we have been calling 
properties in the TMRM.

I am assuming that even though you don't have properties in the \tau, 
you are not saying that at some less abstract level you would not have 
properties? Or are you?

What is puzzling to a degree, assuming you have the time to address the 
first issue, is where are topics/subjects, etc., those pesky things that 
have littered this list in the \tau. That is probably asking too much 
but even non-wellformed, well I do like overlapping markup after all, 
thoughts would be appreciated.

I am more interested in understanding what you are trying to say or go 
with the \tau model than arguing about implementation issues. (Sorry 
Jan. They are very important but if we can't communicate, we won't have 
implemenation issues to worry about.)

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!