TMA designers may also provide...
- Rules for interpreting instances of one or more specific
syntaxes, data models, database schemas, etc. as a set of reifiers
with built-in property instances.
- Note: ISO 13250 provides two syntaxes explicitly for the
purpose of interchanging topic maps. Work is ongoing to reach
consensus on authoritative disclosures of their underlying Topic
Map Applications and the rules for interpreting instances of
them in terms of those Topic Map Applications.
- There are other popular syntaxes for topic maps.
- But any information resource can be viewed as a topic map,
regardless of whether it was intended to be viewed that way.
The topic maps paradigm is not fundamentally about interchange
syntaxes. It's about facilitating the illusion of subject
reifier uniqueness.
