On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:18:53 Alvin Marcelo wrote:
>At 02:41 PM 12/15/00 -0800, you wrote:
>>The alternative solution that I am proposing is one without a fixed
>>intermediate reference schema. Instead, what it uses are "Linkers" that
>>mediate between schema: Chinese==>Japanese, Japanese==>Zulu,
>>Zulu==>English. When one wishes to go from Chinese to English, then it is
>>possible to use the "Linkers" that takes the data from Chinese, through
>>Japanese and Zulu, to English.
>
>
>Are we assuming there is already a link Chinese to Japanese and Japanese to
>Zulu and Zuku to English right? What if there is none?
>
Alvin,
The linkers (=mediators) are created by users (e.g. through a browser interface).
Just like the OIO forms, they can be uploaded to online libraries and shared. Since
we are talking about linkers that only link between two OIO forms, these are very
lightweight and simple constructs. Using the Zulu analogy, we are not talking about
mediating the entire dictionary - each linker will only cover a few terms (whatever is
on a form).
Andrew
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Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
www.TxOutcome.Org
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
University of California, Los Angeles
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