Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

April 18, 2010

Maps and Territories

Filed under: Maps,Subject Identity — Patrick Durusau @ 6:26 pm

All maps are territories.

The question for comparing SQL (or any other system) to topic maps is:

Can SQL (or other system) recognize one of its own mappings/models as a territory for mapping? If so, how?

I reviewed Chapter 14, “Semantic Modeling,” of C. J. Date’s An Introduction To Database Systems and modeling/mapping there refers to objects in “the real world.”

I take it that Date would exclude SQL schemas as the objects of modeling or mapping with a relational database.

Does anyone have a different impression?

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