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- From: "B. Tommie Usdin" <btusdin@mulberrytech.com>
- To: xml-dev <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:58:52 -0500
David Wang wrote (in part):
... it seems odd that Topic maps, being newsworthy, needs and
>rides on top of AF, which seems to not be newsworthy (depending on
>viewpoints, but let's speculate for the moment). Any reasons?
>
This doesn't seem at all odd to me.
It is far easier for people to understand, and thus get excited about, a
specific application than a general concept. Architectural Forms is an
interesting concept, but it isn't something most people can imagine using
to solve real world problems right now. Topic Maps is a much more concrete
notion; people understand the need and can easily imagine how they might
want to use a Topic Map. Thus Topic Maps are more newsworthy than
Architectural Forms; they are less abstract and easier to understand.
Newsworthiness is a measure of excitement not of value, and may be
inversely proportional to abstracteness.
-- Tommie
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