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URIrefs make shared vocabularies possible

Using URIrefs as subjects, predicates, and objects in RDF statements supports the development and use of shared vocabularies on the Web, since people can discover and begin using vocabularies already used by others to describe things, reflecting a shared understanding of those concepts. For

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Related / other sources, sharing tags

Base names and variant names

The standard therefore provides the facility to assign multiple base names to a single topic, and to provide variants of each base name for use in specific…

The Tao Of Topic Maps #variants #name #mechanism #use #standards #facilities

Judging a paper without reading it

The use of the current research publications performance metrics (citations, altmetrics, webometris, etc) is, in our opinion, based on a false premise that…

A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution #use #assumption #impact

Meaning as use, with a qualification

Wittgenstein argued that meanings of words often cannot be specified in logically comprehensive terms. ‘For a large class of cases – though not for all – in…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #wittgenstein #meaning #language #use

Minimal techno

By 2005, this was the sound that filled most clubs in London and across Europe. Minimal at its best was Latin-infused, hypnotic and seductive. But sometimes…

Bugged Out At 20: Electro-house, Minimal Techno, New Rave (john Burgess) #drugs #sound #use #choice

Topic types and multiple indexes

Topics can be categorized according to their kind. In a topic map, any given topic is an instance of zero or more topic types. This corresponds to the…

The Tao Of Topic Maps #use #types #index #topic #different-types

A topic can be anything whatsoever

What then is a topic? A topic, in its most generic sense, can be any “thing” whatsoever — a person, an entity, a concept, really anything — regardless of…

The Tao Of Topic Maps #words #subjects #objects #sense #topic #mind