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ontology-design
is subclass of:
- design-activity [ class ]
is part of:
- Ontology Creation [ whole ]
Comment:
what resources should become reified topics and which are simply occurrences?
Comment:
what topics are supposedly types, which are scopes, which are occurrence types, which are association types
Comment:
how to use topic types? -- how to use occurrence types? -- when to use scopes for topic characteristics and when to use types? -- how should particular associations be structured (extensibility)
Comment:
what published subjects can be (re)used -- facilitates merging
Comment:
balance of topic maps -- how many topics in relation to associations -- how much structure vs. free text (readability vs. reusability)