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Jack Park:

I think that now is a good time to start a dialog between the RDF tribe and the Topic Maps tribe. It's a double-edged knife, one that cuts both ways, looking at the true nature of the inquiries of each tribe.

He may have a point. Many of the issues raised recently by some of the RDF tribe are associated with subject identity, something the Topic Maps tribe have always seemed rather smug about.

univers immedia: Thinking about RDF and Topic Maps

See also: Crisis (Ian Davis), Tagtriple + identity precision (Phil Dawes), Is RDF moving beyond the desperate hacker? And what of Microformats? (Uche Ogbuji)