I think the relation group, which is working with both Relation.Type and
Relation.ID provides the potential of dealing with this kind of
relationship if theory T and Problem P are embodied in some information
resource. If these are more free-floating concepts, they won't be able to
be accommodated by the relation working group, but then if that is the case
I think we are talking about a subject.
Relations of these kinds, which involve intellectual indebtedness -
citations, references, elaborations of theories, proofs, disputes about
evidence etc.etc. are all the kind of things which the relation working
group is concerned with.
David
At 12:25 PM 11/12/97 +0100, Simon Buckingham Shum wrote:
>Ron, Jordan, Ralf,
>
>Thanks for the replies to my initial query. My model of what my proposed
>scheme requires is a way to define explicit node and link semantics (I come
>from a hypertext background). From inspecting the summary of the Dublin
>Core scheme, to define a document as making a theoretical contribution to a
>problem, I could perhaps declare:
>
>Coverage: Theory
>Subject: <name of theory>
>Description: <abstract for document, or summary of the theory>
>
>Relation: addresses (for instance)
>
>Coverage: Problem
>Subject: <name of problem, perhaps as defined by the research community>
>Description: <description of problem>
>
>However, a given document may be making many contributions (of the sort I
>suggested before). The author needs a way to declare any number of these.
>I'm not clear if schemes like DC (or any others) take into account this
>possibility... They seem to assume that there's only one instantiation of
>each element per document, which is too coarse a granularity.
>
>In other words, a set of node-link-node relationships like the above would
>form a (potentially visualizable) concept map for that document. What I
>need is an encoding scheme that would allow such a map to be published and
>searchable on a distributed network.
>
>Simon
>
>
>
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