On Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at 02:38 PM, Bob Wyman wrote:
Danny Ayers wrote:The idea makes sense, but I don't quite understand how to translate it to practice. A few questions:Bob, quick question: Take PaceCategoryRevised. Replace the word "category" with "subject"/"subjectIndicator" throughout. What doesn't work?Well, I don't think subjects should have schemes. They should just be URIs. What I would probably do is something like this:
<subject subjectIndicator="http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/"; label="Bob Wyman's Blog"> <category term="Writers/Idiocy/Complete" label="Crazy People" scheme="http://pedantic.org/topics.xtm"/> </subject>
1) If I use the URI "http://www.geckotribe.com/atom"; to talk about the Atom format, and you use "http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/atom"; for the same thing, how is a client to discover that these are the same subject?
2) What's to prevent two people from using the same URI as the subjectIndicator for different subjects? For example: "http://www.xerox.com/"; -- is that the company Xerox, or copy machines in general?
3) How should one go about selecting a URI to represent a particular subject, especially if the subject isn't something on the internet? Would you expect publishing tools to present a UI that hides the URIs?
I guess I'm having a hard time seeing how, in practice, this would be better than the existing proposals.
Antone
