[db-wg] proposal: haiku object

Titley, Nigel <mailto:NTitley at flagtelecom.com> wrote:
> Olaf M. Kolkman wrote:
>> I'd suggest the descr: field to be in the poetic form itself.
>
>> 
>> Looking at the VERSE-SONNET we may have a problem. There are several
>> subclasses that people may wish to use. The Italian Sonnet, The
>> English Sonnet and more modern varieties. How do we indicate
>> possible sub-classes in the object? 
>> 
>> poetic-form: VERSE-SONNET
>> variety:     ENGLISH
>> descr:       (Somebody needs to write an English Sonnet)
I would propose to Keep It Simple 

Poetic form:  MAJOR-[MINOR][-SUBMINOR][-...] 

Example : 
 poetic-form: VERSE-SONNET-ITALIAN
 poetic-form: VERSE-SONNET-ENGLISH

ex : Venitian variety of Italian Sonnet could be : 

>> poetic-form: VERSE-SONNET-ITALIAN-VENITIAN

This way we can extend as much as we want the poetic form.

 
This is based on the assumption that Poetric form are homothetic to a tree
structure. Which cannot be proven according to Goedel's theorem however  I
would say it is sufficiently close to reality for me. 

We will let the work of demonstrating the tree like structure of poetic form
to the mathematicians if you don't mind.

Regards,

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