Yes, that is an obvious solution. The tradeoff is that you now don't get
to say the relationship is hierarchical and get transitive inference,
like you get with Category.
As others have said, there is a real need for other transitive relations
that can give back the functionality we had with Category, but that was
taken away from us in SMW because of its restricted use constraints.
Thanks
Michael
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From: Yaron Koren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 5:49 AM
To: Uschold, Michael F
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Deborah H
Subject: Re: [Semediawiki-user] What to use instead of [[Category: x]]
in SMW?
The obvious solution is to use semantic tags for this information - a
relation or attribute like "Covers topic" could work nicely; you could
then have as many of these as you wanted on a page.
-Yaron
On 8/8/07, Uschold, Michael F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If one restricts usage of Category in the SMW to get the right
semantics of instance and subclass, then it cannot be used for other
things that one uses Category for in MW to put things into 'buckets'.
Say there is a discussion about two different classes
(chimpanzees and gorillas). In the MW, you would just put the page into
the chimpanzee and gorilla categories, and it would mean that this page
was about these two topics. But if I do that in SMW, it will think that
this comparison page is an instance of both chimpanzee and gorilla,
which is wrong.
I could create a parallel class hierarchy and create categories
called PageAboutTopicChimpanzee and PageAboutTopicGorilla and this page
would correctly be interpreted as an instance of these categories. I
would also have to re-create each sub-category link too.
This would work, but means you have to manually keep the two
hierarchies in synch, which is not ideal.
What is the recommended way to put pages into 'buckets' in SMW?
Is this discussed somewhere already?
I welcome your thoughts.
Thanks,
Michael
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