#topicmaps@irc.freenode.net log for 2003-08-28

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10:03:47 tomb gday
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10:34:39 arnarl mornin
10:35:55 tomb hello arnar :)
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10:50:47 tomb hello grove
11:12:44 grove_ hi tomb!
11:56:25 GabeW hi all
11:56:29 GabeW its 3am here ;-)
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11:59:30 mariyo tmbot: url: http://ilrt.org/discovery/chatlogs/rdfig/2003-08-06#T14-54-17
12:06:29 mariyo tmbot: title: Extreme Markup notes from DanC: on Published Subjects, TM Patterns, LexusNexus TM use, tolog, Omnigator
12:06:53 GabeW lexisnexis uses TM?
12:07:29 GabeW mariyo: ...
12:08:16 mariyo tmbot: comment: The TM and RDF groups need to get together and discuss these topics soon.
12:08:30 mariyo hi gabe :)
12:08:52 mariyo i will give you the link to eric's paper
12:09:15 GabeW * GabeW has a law degree, knows a great deal about lexis-nexis
12:09:22 GabeW * GabeW also was employee #1 at findldaw
12:09:24 GabeW findlaw
12:09:34 mariyo he reports on a project he worked on. eric freese works for lexusnexus
12:09:41 GabeW cool
12:09:44 mariyo * mariyo looking for link now.
12:11:16 mariyo tmbot: url: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Proceedings/html/2003/Freese01/EML2003Freese01-toc.html
12:12:53 mariyo tmbot: title: Taking Topic Maps to the Nth dimension
12:14:00 GabeW neet stuff
12:14:41 mariyo tmbot: comment: Eric's paper shows that Topic Maps are really scalable, among other things :))
12:16:00 mariyo yeah, it was a great paper. i was able to speak with eric at length. he has lots of great ideas.
12:16:00 GabeW people never believe me that the amount of data accssible on the internet increased 5x the day west publishing hooked up their services to the internet (same for lexis/nexis - probably more)
12:16:25 GabeW i pick 5x randomly ;-)
12:17:17 mariyo this is the biggest issue i face at work. i need to prove that tms are scalable for a knowledge portal.
12:17:33 mariyo before anyone will take it seriously.
12:17:39 GabeW heh
12:18:10 mariyo btw, you have an xri draft up for review, don't you?
12:18:17 GabeW why yes, we do!
12:18:35 tomb hi gabew, mariyo :)
12:18:53 mariyo hi tomb. do I know you?
12:19:04 GabeW i don't ;-0
12:19:35 mariyo well, i see that you are in norway, so you must be a friend of larsbot :)
12:19:46 tomb I don't think so - I've been working with ZTM (Zope Topic Maps) for a couple of years. I'm located in oslo, norway :)
12:19:54 GabeW tomb: neat
12:20:04 GabeW * GabeW hasn't worked with zope in a while
12:20:10 mariyo oh, so you are a friend of arnarl :)
12:20:37 tomb yep, we were (and will be again soon) colleagues
12:20:50 mariyo do you know sakurai-san in japan? he leads the zope user group here. great guy
12:21:30 mariyo i am waiting for some free time to learn zope, whenever that is.
12:22:07 tomb i don't think I know sakurai-san...
12:23:21 mariyo arnarl has had some contact. he is really enthusiastic about tm and zope. don't know if he is using it though.
12:23:23 tomb zope is an excellent web-application server - ZTM is an CMF extention, making all TM elements managed content on the same level as everything else
12:23:43 mariyo ZTM that is
12:23:56 mariyo not sure if he was able to install and work with it.
12:23:59 tomb there is a group in india working on Zope+TM as well, but I don't recall the name of the project
12:24:40 tomb yeah, arnar and I have been working on easing the installation procedure - we're pretty close. We will put it on ztm.sf.net when it's ready
12:24:51 mariyo has more documentation been written? i think that this keeps it from being using more widely.
12:24:53 mariyo great!
12:25:21 mariyo using/used
12:25:57 tomb I've written some installation documentation, but we need some kind of developers docs as well. It follows the TMAPI specs as of last year...
12:26:17 mariyo one the installation is made easier, than more people will use it, yes. good news.
12:26:31 tomb but of course, there is a lot of other zope-related things and other stuff not in the TMAPI spec
12:27:12 tomb yeah, we hope so :) so far we've used it to implement quite a few largish portal projects nationally
12:29:08 tomb what are you working with?
12:30:43 mariyo yeah, i have looked at the tm sites creuna has developed. really impressive.
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12:32:15 mariyo i am working on tmcl requirements for iso, and in my company i am organizing an internal workshop on xml, knowledge technologies, web services and DBs
12:33:10 tomb cool - spreading the gospel of tm :)
12:33:13 mariyo web technologies community leader, sort of do tech watch stuff.
12:33:18 mariyo exactly :))
12:33:41 tomb tmcl is really, really needed :)
12:33:48 mariyo i am planning to write up a proposal for a project. i have lots of people routing me on :)
12:35:13 tomb that's great :)
12:35:56 mariyo yeah, that's why the creuna sites are important. need real stuff our there to show off
12:36:34 mariyo larsbot included it in his tm presentation in japan last year. many were impressed.
12:37:13 mariyo need real implementations. it helps with my case.
12:37:37 mariyo GabeW: are you still there?
12:38:07 GabeW yah
12:39:00 mariyo I can get your xri draft? It's public?
12:39:06 mariyo from your oasis web site?
12:39:18 GabeW yah
12:40:08 mariyo i have some time now and will take a look. bernard posted some things about it. i'll probably need to come back to you with many questions :)
12:40:32 GabeW he did? where?
12:40:59 mariyo i will send it to you. are you on our pubsubj-comment list?
12:41:04 GabeW http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-04-a.html
12:41:11 GabeW ah no
12:41:24 mariyo thought you were and wondered why you didn't comment.
12:41:41 mariyo i lurk on xri list as you know :)
12:41:49 GabeW its not on the archive
12:43:04 mariyo ok, will send to you tomorrow from work. i am not downloading my mail at home now because of the slew of viruses i'm getting. trying to work with only one computer for now.
12:43:08 GabeW hehe
12:43:27 mariyo i do irc and cvs from my good ol mac :)
12:43:28 GabeW this was actually sent to the comments list? I wonder why it did'nt hsow up in the archive
12:43:58 mariyo maybe it is in pubsubj try there
12:44:15 GabeW i looked in both
12:44:34 mariyo ok please wait for tomorrow. i won't forget :)
12:44:39 GabeW k
12:44:41 GabeW thx
12:44:58 GabeW * GabeW eagerly awaits
12:45:10 mariyo hehe :)
12:45:46 mariyo bernard is trying to stir up some interest :)\
12:45:51 GabeW oh good
12:46:15 mariyo please read my paper from extreme. i will post the url now
12:47:16 mariyo tmbot: url: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Proceedings/html/2003/Nishikawa01/EML2003Nishikawa01.html
12:47:43 mariyo tmbot: title: A metadata network for bridging people and places
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14:32:59 larsbot tmbot: url: http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0439.htm
14:34:18 larsbot tmbot: title: Montreal meeting report
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15:19:46 arnarl interesting discussion on scope... Does the appendix represent the way scope will be structured in the future, or is it merely a suggestion (at least for now)
15:20:35 larsbot it's just a proposal
15:21:37 larsbot actually, we'd very much like to have people's feedback on this
15:22:51 arnarl At first glance it seems a bit limiting, but I'd need to think it through.
15:23:31 arnarl For instance: How do I determine which scopes should be grouped together in an AND/ORD group
15:26:17 larsbot I think you've misunderstood the proposal
15:26:29 arnarl probably :)
15:26:42 larsbot scope becomes a boolean expression
15:27:00 larsbot so you are not combining scopes, you are expressing the scope of a single topic name, variant name, occurrence, or association
15:27:54 arnarl which is supposed to be matched against "user context"?
15:29:50 larsbot correct
15:30:29 arnarl I like it... that could actually suit us very well.
15:30:50 arnarl very clever
15:31:04 larsbot you don't think it's too costly to implement?
15:31:13 larsbot performance-wise, I mean
15:31:53 arnarl Nah, we need something like this anyway.
15:32:24 larsbot that's useful feedback
15:34:30 larsbot I've noted it in the tm-standards.xtm topic map, with a pointer here
15:34:36 larsbot tmbot: url: http://ilrt.org/discovery/chatlogs/rdfig/2003-08-06#T14-54-17
15:34:55 larsbot tmbot: title: Extreme Markup notes from DanC
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