Nadja,
"Why is the topic map standard at
http://www.topicmaps.org/standards/ [8] an unofficial topic map
standard?" Links can be found to working technical committee reports,
which are generally re-titled as "standards" once voted and accepted by
ISO. These TC reports vary little from what is published by the ISO
community as a "standard".
"ISO/IEC 19788-1:2011 is
information-technology-neutral" means that information elements defined
by the standard for learning resources can be represented using a
concrete implementation syntax such as provided by the RDF or by Topic
Maps or by SMW syntax or by JSON or by a variety of others. For
instance, a data element defined by 19788 might be "Learning Resource"
which has an attribute called "Minimum Education Level".
In RDF a
given LearningResource would be exchanged via
<rdf:RDF
xmlns:iso="http://iso.org/19788/" xmlns:dc="dublin
core"
<iso:LearningResource rdf:about="LR12345"
<dc:title>Lithium</dc:title
<iso:minEducLevel>12th
grade</iso:minEducLevel
</iso:LearningResource
</rdf:RDF
The
owl:Class definition for iso:LearningResource and rdf:Property
definition for iso:minEducLevel are not shown.
In Topic Maps, exchange
is had from
<tm:topicmap
xmlns:tm="http://iso.org/13250/"
xmlns:dc="dublin core"
<tm:topic
<tm:itemIdentity>LR12345</tm:itemIdentity
<tm:name
<tm:value>Lithium</tm:value
</tm:name
<tm:occurrence
<tm:type
<tm:resourceRef
href="http://iso.org/19788/MinimumEducationLevel"/
</tm:type
<tm:resourceData>12th grade</tm:resourceData
</tm:occurrence
</tm:topic
</tm:topicmap
Markup for a "published
subject identifier" -- eg
http://iso.org/19788/MinimumEducationLevel --
is not shown.
In SMW, the page named "Lithium" might be exported
as
<page
<title>Lithium</title
<revision
<text
xml:space="preserve"
[[Category:ISO 19788
Learning
Resources]]
[[minEducLevel::12th grade]]
</text
</revision
</page
while a page entitled "Category:ISO 19788
Learning
Resources" is mapped elsewhere in the wiki to an import-able owl:Class
definition and a page entitled "Property:minEducLevel" is mapped to an
import-able rdf:Property definition.
It'd be interesting to hear from
the Wikidata team what the SNAK API serialization(s) would be.
John
On 05.09.2012 09:45, Nadja Kutz wrote:
John McClure wrote:
"To my knowledge ISO has not published, nor is intending to publish,
instances of topic maps representing the content of their numerous
publications, using either their (ISO's) standard for Topic Maps
(ISO/IEC 13250), or any other ISO or non-ISO standard. Forgive me if I
ever gave that impression.
You provided a nice link to unofficial
topic map standards, thank you. Here's
others:
http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/tmlinks.html [1]."
thanks for the
link. Why is the topic map
standard at
http://www.topicmaps.org/standards/ [2] an unofficial topic map
standard?
They talk about that it is ISO 13250 standard.
You had
drawn my attention to the ISO, thanks for that however the impression
that they might have some standards is from their
website:
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnu…
[3]
where they write amongst others:
"The primary purpose of
ISO/IEC 19788 is to specify metadata elements and
their attributes for
the description of learning resources. This includes the rules governing
the identification of data elements and the specification of their
attributes."
since this thing costs 162 CHF i can't check what
those
guys are really doing there, however it would be strange to define
metadata which is not for automated processing.
In particular they write
a little later:
"ISO/IEC 19788-1:2011 is
information-technology-neutral and defines a set of common approaches,
i.e. methodologies and constructs, which apply to the development of the
subsequent parts of ISO/IEC 19788."
would they write this if ISO/IEC
19788 was
information-technology-neutral as well?
moreover there
exists also a
N2448 [4]Summary of voting on ISOIEC NP 18343,
Learning
environment profile for automated contents [5] [6]
which is password
protected at the webpage:
http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/open/jtc1sc36 [7]
but where
the word AUTOMATED appears explicitly.
but of course it would be
nicer to have someone
who knows explicitly what exactly they are having
in mind there at ISO.
Links:
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[1]
http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/tmlinks.html
[2]
http://www.topicmaps.org/standards/
[3]
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnu…
[4]
http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objId=14565184&a…
[5]
http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objId=14565184&a…
[6]
http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objId=14565184&a…
[7]
http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/open/jtc1sc36
[8]
http://www.topicmaps.org/standards/