[tcs-lc] Let's not bother with the codes any more :)

[Roger Hyam]

You must be psychic. You answered my other email with this email within 
2 seconds of my posting it!

Hey if we can have a 'de facto' name object there can't be any harm us 
having a real one.  We could start with a real one and just put a 
wrapper round it when we wanted it to be incognito as a concept then 
everyone would be happy!


Richard Pyle wrote:

>Roger wrote:
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>>The fact that we appear to have over looked this (I may be wrong but I
>>can't see the mechanism in the TCS and I haven't had a chance to check
>>your schema thoroughly Rich I am afraid) worries me.
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>Don't be afraid... :-)
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>In my version (3), all non-Nominal Concept instances that apply a scientific
>name would have an element to record the verbatim text string of the name as
>used in the "AccordingTo" source, and optionally a reference link to the
>corresponding Nominal Concept instance for the applied name (only optional
>at this point so as not to force all data providers to flesh out more
>detailed name information).  The way I have it, no
>detailed/parsed/cannonical nomenclatural data would accompany non-Nominal
>Concept instances. If such information (beyond the verbatim name-string) is
>desired for a non-Nominal Concept instance, it must be acquired via the
>(internal or external) link to the corresponding Nominal Concept instance.
>
>The referenced Nominal Concept instance would then have within it links back
>to the appropriate Original Concept (as well as links to other non-Nominal
>Concept instances that involve nomenclatually imprtant acts).
>
>Thus, whereas I think the Nominal Concept was originally introduced as
>simply a way to accomodate name-only primary data in a concept-oriented
>framework; what I advocate is elevating the status of the Nominal Concept to
>a core, fundamental role within TCS -- as bearer of parsed nomenclaturally
>important information, and as the nomenclatural "hub" around which
>non-Nominal Concept instances are connected. In other words, as the de-facto
>"name object".
>
>Aloha,
>Rich
>
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