[om-list] Improved schema terminology

[Luke Call]

This is interesting. Again, I'd like OM to work well enough that one 
could model such things on the fly as concepts/entities, and not have to 
think about the underlying rdbms stuff at all. So you could focus on 
your model, how it integrates w/ other models, and the extent to which 
you'd link your ideas to theirs, by the extent to which you re-use and 
build relationships to the entities they have placed in the system.

Like Tom, big ideas.

Mark Butler wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I was just thinking that perhaps "comparative schema" is a better 
> general name than "child schema" to describe any schema other than the 
> root, given that the whole point is to compare anothers beliefs to your 
> own. 
> 
> A foreign schema best describes "what someone else believes", rather 
> than "what I beleive someone else believes", an "impersonal comparative 
> schema" is a more accurate term.
> 
> Revised definitions:
> 
> Schema 
> 
>    A qualified interpretive model of knowledge and belief. What an 
> author personally believes or what he beleives another to beleive.
> ....