2004-08-17

Subject Identity

How things (abstract concepts or real-world stuff) are identified on the Web is a critical issue. I've posted some ideas about it in various places. See e.g.
http://www.isotopicmaps.org/pipermail/sc34wg3/2003-November/001909.html

A recent post by Stella Dextre Clarke in the SWAD Forum shows the complexity of the issue in the framework of Thesaurus management.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2004Aug/0048.html