Bill de hÓra wrote:
For instance, suppose that I want to
indicate that an entry is about http://www.ibm.com and file that in a
category called technology? The categorization of the entry is
different than the subject of the entry.. tho both are definitely related.
There are two distinct forms of discourse going on here
- This entry is talking about some subject area or entity or resource.
It says something about something else. Being able to do this pretty
much why RDF was invented.
- This entry is classifiable under some subject area or topic or class.
It has something has sense of belonging or association to something
else. Being able to do this is pretty much why Topic Maps were invented.
Please, please, please, do not conflate these.
Oh absolutely, I'm not trying to conflate 'em. I want to find a
solution to the first case ("this entry is talking about some subject
area") that preferably does not involve invention or abuse of existing
formats/tags. I'm more than aware that RDF does this already but I not
sure how that fact helps us in Atom (which is not RDF).
- James
