Name: Watching the Watchers
Domain: Department of Homeland Security (United States).
Identifiers: Using the Head Count project web pages as subject identifiers for the individuals.
I will create and register identifiers for the positions as necessary.
Subjects: The appointees, positions, subjects from the reported associations.
Associations: Reported ones for appointees (more to follow).
A contributedBy association to identify the person adding information to the map. A sourceOf association for the information source.
The contributedBy and sourceOf associations may distinguish the topic map from the project at the Washington-Post. An editor could see if facts in a story came from a single source. Or multiple sources. As well as how those sources played into other stories.
First rough cut with appointee topics only, Watchers_01.zip (Apologies for the zip file. My ISP doesn’t recognize “.ctm” as a file extension.)
Comments? (To anticipate, yes I will be using the prefix directive but wanted to start without it.)
Good start.
I guess you need to add “isa person;” to all of these, after the SI.
Also, a prefix won’t work here, since all the SIs end in “/”. That would make it “foo:person-name/”, which is not legal CTM.
Comment by Lars Marius Garshol — May 6, 2010 @ 8:57 am
Question: The trailing “/” on the SIs is a server artifact. Resolves without it.
Good/bad practice to remove the trailing “/” so that I can use the prefix mechanism?
Do need to add “isa person;”
Going to try to update tomorrow with the position subjects. (I will have to create SIs for those). Then position associations over the weekend.
Want to show the gradual growth of a topic map, complete with warts, changes, etc. Reminds me of writing a document. 😉 If I wait until the first sentence is perfect, I have a hard time starting. Best to just start where I am and fill in the other parts as they come along.
Comment by Patrick Durusau — May 6, 2010 @ 10:36 am