ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34N0897

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34

Information Technology --
Document Description and Processing Languages

TITLE: Use Case Solutions -- 13250-6 Topic Maps -- Compact Syntax
SOURCE: Mr. Lars Heuer; Mr. Gabriel Hopmans; Dr. Sam Gyun Oh; Mr. Steve Pepper
PROJECT: WD 13250-6: Information technology - Topic Maps - Compact syntax
PROJECT EDITOR: Mr. Lars Heuer; Mr. Gabriel Hopmans; Dr. Sam Gyun Oh
STATUS: Project document
ACTION: For information and informal comment to working group 3
DATE: 2007-07-31
DISTRIBUTION: SC34 and Liaisons
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Compact Topic Maps Syntax - Use Case Solutions

For these use case solutions the current CTM draft (dated July 2nd, 2007) is used.

3.2.1. Topic with an Item Identifier

john

3.2.2. Typed Topic - Using Item Identifiers

john isa person

3.2.3. Typed Topic - Using Subject Identifiers

john isa http://psi.example.org/music/guitarist


Alternative (using the "prefix" directive): 

%prefix music http://psi.example.org/music/

john isa music:guitarist

3.2.4. Multityped Topic - Using Item Identifiers

john isa singer 
     isa guitarist

3.2.5. Multityped Topic - Using Subject Identifiers

http://psi.example.org/beatles/john isa singer isa guitarist

3.3.1. Topic with an Item Identifier and Topic Name

john - "John Lennon"


Alternative 

john -: "John Lennon"

3.3.2. Topic with a Subject Identifier and Topic Name

%prefix beatles http://psi.beatles.example.org/

beatles:The_Beatles -: "The Beatles"

3.3.3. Topic with a Subject Locator and a Topic Name

= http://beatles.com/ - "Official website of The Beatles"

3.3.4. Typed Topic Name - Using Item Identifiers

john - fullname: "John Ono Lennon"

3.3.5. Typed Topic Names - Using Subject Identifiers

john - http://psi.example.org/fullname: "John Ono Lennon"

3.3.6. Scoped Topic Name - Using Item Identifiers

john - "John Ono Lennon" @fullname


or 

john -: "John Ono Lennon" @fullname

3.3.7. Scoped Topic Name - Using Subject Itentifiers

%prefix ex http://blabla.org
john - "John Ono Lennon" @ex:fullname

3.3.8. Multi Scoped Topic Name

beatles 
- "The Beatles"
- "Fab Four" @nickname short

3.3.9. Typed and Scoped Names

john - fullname: "John Ono Lennon" @yoko

3.3.10. Topic Name with Variant of datatype String

john - "John Lennon" ("lennon, john" @tm:sort)

3.3.11. Topic Name with Variant of datatype XML

john - "John Lennon" 
( "<b>John Lennon</b>"^^xs:anyType @markup)

3.3.12. Topic Name with Variant of datatype URI

john - "John Lennon" (http://link/to/an/image.jpg @image)

3.3.13. Topic Name with Variant with non-TMDM datatype

revolution-nine - "Revolution No. 9" (9 @number)

3.3.14 Typed topic with subject identifier with occurrences and associations

# Creating the templates
def has-shoesize($person, $size)
    $person 
    shoesize: $size     # Shoesize is modelled as occurrence
end

def is-member-of($member, $group)
    is-member-of(member: $member, group: $group)
end


http://psi.example.org/beatles/paul isa person
has-shoesize 45
is-member-of the-beatles
homepage: http://www.paulmccartney.com/

3.4.2. Typed Occurrence of datatype String - Using Item Identifiers

a-day-in-the-life 
lyrics: "I read ..."

3.4.3. Typed Occurrence of datatype String - Using Subject Identifiers

%prefix ex http://www.blabla.org

a-day-in-the-life 
ex:lyrics: "I read ..."

3.4.4. Scoped Occurrence of datatype String - Using Item Identifiers

a-day-in-the-life 
lyrics: "I read ..." @en

3.4.5. Scoped Occurrence of datatype String - Using Subject Identifiers

%prefix ex http://bla.org
%prefix lang http://language.org

a-day-in-the-life 
ex:lyrics: "I read ..." @lang:en

3.4.6. Occurrence of datatype XML

a-day-in-the-life 
lyrics: """<html>
            <head>[...]</head>
            <body id="lyrics">[...]</body>
       </html>"""^^xs:anyType

3.4.7. Occurrence of datatype IRI

beatles website: http://www.beatles.com/


or 

beatles website: "http://www.beatles.com/"^^xs:anyURI

3.4.7. Occurrence of non-TMDM datatype

pennylane track-number: 2


or 

pennylane track-number: "2"^^xs:integer

3.5.1. Creating Associations

created(person : mccartney, song : yesterday)


or with templates: 

# Template definition
def created($creator, $song)
    created(person : $creator, song : $song)
end

mccartney created yesterday


or with template invocation outside of topic declaration 

# Template definition
def created($creator, $song)
    created(person : $creator, song : $song)
end

created(mccartney, yesterday)

3.5.2. Scoped Association

created(person : mc-cartney, song : yesterday) @music

3.5.5. Supertype-Subtype relationship - Using Item Identifiers

song iko musical-work

3.5.6. Supertype-Subtype relationship - Using Subject Identifiers

%prefix ex http://...

ex:song iko ex:musical-work

3.6.1 Reification of a Topic Map

~ tm-reifier - "Beatlestopicmap"

3.6.2. Reification of a Topic Name

john - "John Ono Lennon" ~ name-of-john-lennon

3.6.3. Reification of a Variant

john - "John Ono Lennon" 
        ("lennon, john" @sort ~ sortname-of-john-lennon)

3.6.4. Reification of an Occurrence

john website: http://www.lennon.com/ ~ lennons-website

3.6.5. Reification of an Association

partnership(person: lennon, person: mc-cartney) ~ lennon-mccartney

lennon-mccartney - "Lennon / McCartney"

3.7.1. Singe line comment

# a single line with comments

3.7.2. Multiline comment

# one comment
# line 2