On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Pete Johnston wrote:
>
> I can imagine that if my system understands qualified DC, it may still
> be necessary for that system to transform qualified DC instances into
> simple DC instances e.g. for use elsewhere in a system which only
> understands simple DC.
>
> So my system _could_ dumb-down "intelligently" (i.e. with understanding
> of schemes and proper handling of any lexical-value mapping involved),
> rather than, ahem, "dumbly" (discarding scheme-related information).
Yes... and there might perhaps be systems that 'dumb-down' local element
refinements (i.e. ones not approved by DCMI) to DCMI elements according to
the local schema?
>
> I think the issue Roland is highlighting is that what I call
> "intelligent dumb-down" here (which I think is what Roland calls
> "simple" in his follow-up) and "dumb dumb-down" (Roland's "easy") may
> produce different outputs.
>
> But maybe "intelligent/simple dumb-down" isn't "dumb-down" as we have
> known it.... ;-)
>
...mmmh, sounds very similar to 'mapping'??
Rachel
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rachel Heery
UKOLN
University of Bath tel: +44 (0)1225 826724
Bath, BA2 7AY, UK fax: +44 (0)1225 826838
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
|