Re: Specifying all biz rules in relational data

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:04:28 +0200
Message-ID: <414df464$0$42417$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:

> mAsterdam writes:

>>It looks like taxonomy is closely associated with hierarchies.  Not
>>really a problem, is it?

>
> a problem is that real world knowledge can quickly become a mesh
> .... while something like NLN's UMLS of medical knowledge has
> some hierarchical orginaization ... it also has MeSH organization

[snip nice links]

Heh. It seems IT has a lot of work to do to get the basics right. Does anybody know a reference for a (start of a) classification of datatypes beyond the realm of one language? Received on Sun Sep 19 2004 - 16:04:28 CDT