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

November 27, 2012

SunPy [Choosing Specific Subject Identity Issues]

Filed under: Astroinformatics,Subject Identity,Topic Maps — Patrick Durusau @ 10:57 am

SunPy: A Community Python Library for Solar Physics

From the homepage:

The SunPy project is an effort to create an open-source software library for solar physics using the Python programming language.

As you have seen in your own experience or read about in my other posting on astronomical data, like elsewhere, subject identity issues abound.

This is another area that may spark someone’s interest in using topic maps to mitigate against specific subject identity issues.

“Specific subject identity issues” because the act of mitigation always creates more subjects which could be the sources of subject identity issues. It’s not a problem so long as you choose the issues most important to you.

If and when those other potential subject identity issues become relevant, they can be addressed later. The logic approach pretends such issues don’t exist at all. I prefer the former. It’s less fragile.

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