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A Taxi In Knowledge Land
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Bandholtz reports on a R&D project with a
focus on implementing topic map functionality as a web
service. The primary usage is within a public portal
(German Einvironmental Information Network), but the
service is provided for general use in the scope of
environmental protection. The topic map contains a
thesaurus and a gazetteer. The report gives an overview
on architectur and methods, and on the tools employed,
and on standardization issues.
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AsTMa!
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A Topic Map constraint language specified
using a textual notation including use of regular
expressions for name constraints.
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Cogitech Inc.
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Connecting XML, RDF And Web Technologies For
Representing Knowledge On The Semantic Web
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: In order to represent knowledge for it to be
usable web-wide and in interoperable ways, it should be
done using well-known, and the most appropriate web
technologies. These include the XML family of standards
and the Resource Description Framework (RDF). RDF is a
metadata format that uses a directed, labeled graph
structure, URIs for identifiers, XML for its its syntax,
and a simple type and class structure for recording
schema information. RDF can be used with many XML
technologies such as XML Namespaces, RELAX NG, XML
Schema, XSLT and has relationships to others such as
XTM, XPath, XQuery, SQL and relational databases. When
these technologies are used, the knowledge has to be
described in web-wide concepts which are usually
provided in what are variously called schemas,
ontologies, thesauri or vocabularies. These vocabularies
can include general ones such as the Dublin Core, ones
from particular communities, from existing controlled
vocabularies and new ones for particular purposes. These
need to be able to be mixed and matched, discovered and
new concepts understood (if only partially) in order
that relationships between the concepts can be made.
These methods and forms are the technological basis of
the Semantic Web idea. This paper describes how these
technologies are best used together, their relationships
and where each of them can be appropriately applied.
This is done using examples of how they are being used
in different applications, communities and industries.
The ongoing development of the mentioned standards is
also be explained.
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Developing A Topic Map Programming Model
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This paper was first presented at Knowledge
Technologies 2001 in March of that year. The paper
presents the case for developing a standard API for
creating and accessing topic maps programmatically and
proceeds to develop and evaluate four different
approaches to such an API.
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Download Page
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A web resource which is the gateway to
allowing the download of a software application or
library. A download page may require some form of user
identification or registration before the actual binary
files can be retrieved.
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DTD
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A Document Type Definition - a formal
description of the allowed structure of an XML document instance.
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Dynamic Publication Through Content
Structure Management Tools
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Dynamic publication has become a strong
requirement in environments where content flow is
important and need for customized organization of
information is critical. Financial organizations use
both expert produced documents (tax, legal, financial)
and commercial documents about their products. The
overall documentation is used in different contexts, for
different purposes, using several formats. Managing
'content structures' in a repository
independent from the content itself can significantly
improve content publication process, reusability of
content itself, and accurate, customized dynamic
publication. We'll show on an use case of assets
management documentation how a clear separation from
'Content' and 'Content Structures'
can be used to allow every actor in the information
chain to create new structure patterns, as well as new
documents, and finally deliver completely customized
documentation to the end users. We'll show how RDF
and Topic Maps standards enable this crucial
segmentation between reusable content and content
structures. We'll show how 'content structure
management' tools feet into content management
architecture with portals, content management systems,
and content authoring tools. We'll show how
separate management of 'content structure'
open the way to a new family of content management tools
such as 'content intelligence tools',
'content organization authoring tools'.
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Empolis
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English
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The English language. Includes US and British English.
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eTopicality
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HyTM
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The International standard description of the
topic maps paradigm. This standard also defines an
interchange syntax using SGML and HyTime linking. The
most recent version of this standard also includes [XTM
1.0] as an annex.
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Identities And Names In Knowledge Management
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This paper presents a concise investigation
and classification of the nature of identities and the
role of names in knowledge management solutions.
Identities and names, while being the very foundation
upon which knowledge management solutions are built are
also the least clearly explained and understood. This
leads to a conflicting and often inconsistent use of
identity and naming in any given solution. As we move
towards integrated knowledge management solutions,
identity has an even greater role to play in providing
consistency and forming bridges between knowledge
models. We begin this paper with a study of the
different aspects of identity including 'thing
identity', 'The Scope and Granularity of
things to be identified', 'Assigning meaning
and Published Identity', 'Identity Assignment
and Resolution' and 'Identity Structure'.
The next section introduces the idea of names and
illustrates how they are different from identities.
Throughout this paper we provide syntactic examples of
the ideas discussed using several standards, including
RDF and TopicMaps. We conclude this paper with a
discussion about how identity and names could evolve and
what future role they may expect to play in knowledge
management solutions.
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Infoloom
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Intelligent Topic Manager (ITM)
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ITM enables customers to federate scattered
information resources and organise access to those
resources through multiple organisation models. The ITM
architecture relies on a clear separation between
content and its organisation (a basic topic map
principle) and makes use of the topic map paradigm for
creating those structures.
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International Organisation for Standardization
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ISO 13250
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The original description of the topic map
paradigm, now in a second edition.
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k42
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A collaborative knowledge-management
environment based on topic maps.
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k42 Semantic Web Server
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A meta data server which can store meta data
in RDF and topic map form and provides access through a
Java API or via a SOAP web-service interface.
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k42 Web Author
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A browser-based GUI for editing topic map data
held in a [k42] server.
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Kal Ahmed
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Language
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A human natural language.
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LTM
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A simple interchange syntax with an emphasis
on ease of authoring. This syntax does not make use of
XML notation.
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Mondeca
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Nexist
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Nexist is a collaborative learning environment
written as a client-server application in Java. Students
use the Nexist environment to propose ideas which are
then responded to by other students with related
discussions and other resources either to support or
dispute the original proposition. Nexist makes use of a
topic map structure persisted in a relational database
to hold all of the information relating to propsed ideas
and the discussions and related resources. Nexist also
has a plugin to allow direct editing of the XTM
information - thus providing a multi-user collaborative
topic map editing environment.
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OASIS Vocabulary for XML Standards and
Technologies TC
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Online Demonstration
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An online demonstration of a software
application which allows the user to interact with the software.
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Ontopia
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Ontopia Knowledge Suite
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The Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS) is a
complete set of tools for building, maintaining, and
deploying topic map-based applications. As of version
1.3, it consists of the Ontopia Topic Map Engine, the
Ontopia Navigator Framework, the Full-text Search
Integration, RDBMS Backend Connector, and the Topic Map
Query Engine and Schema Tools. A Web Editor Framework
and Topic Map Server are currently under development and
will be released in 2002. Further components are also planned.
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Ontopia Omnigator
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A reference implementation of the [Ontopia
Navigation Framework] which provides a generic topic map
browsing interface in a standard web-browser.
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Ontopia Web Editor Framework
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A toolkit for the development of browser-based
front-ends for the collaborative creation and editing of
topic maps.
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Open Directory Topic Maps Category
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A category of the Open Directory project
dedicated to Topic Maps.
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Product Description
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A resource providing a non-technical overview
of a product.
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Query Language
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A Vocabulary for expressing queries over a
topic map or a collection of topic maps.
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RDF and Topic Maps, An Exercise in Convergence
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Describes a relationship between RDF and Topic
Maps in terms of a relationship between their respective models.
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Real World Applications of Topic Maps
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Since the adoption of the topic map ISO
standard in 2000 and the release of the
XTM specification earlier this year, topic maps have
gotten a great deal of attention. The concept has
been billed as the be all, end all for knowledge
organization and representation. Battles between topic
maps and RDF zealots have broken out, with
each touting the strengths and advantages of their
individual schemes. However, through the din, a common
question has arisen from users: "This sounds cool,
but what can I use it for in my organization?"
Several topic map vendors and architects have developed
example topic maps in order to demonstrate the
power of the topic map paradigm. However, in most
cases, these applications are merely toys and not of
much use in a commercial enterprise. They also deal
with topics (no pun intended), such as genealogy
and music, which are often difficult to map to
real-world applications. If potential users are unable
to bridge the chasm between the examples and their
own potential uses of the paradigm, they are rarely
willing to risk dwindling corporate resources to
field even a pilot program. In keeping with the
conference theme "What Really Works", this
paper will present a real-world application of the topic
map model in use at a real company. The application
includes a parts management system and IETM
. The paper will discuss the application and highlight
the successes and challenges encountered in designing
and implementing the system.
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Reference Model For Topic Maps
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Presents the core features that underpin the
topic map standard. Acts as a base which the [Standard
Application Model For Topic Maps] extends to provide
features such as names, occurrences and associations.
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Requirements For The Standard Application Model
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Described as being "a little old, but no
newer versions are available. (For 'foundational
model', substitute "Standard Application
Model" throughout.)".
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RivCom
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Scope
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SemanText
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SemanText is a semantic network application
which uses topic maps to represent its knowledge base.
SemanText is also capable of extracting topic map
information from XML sources and of using rules-based
inference to enrich a topic map.
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sold by
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A role type in an association, e.g., subject topic 'sold by' object topic.
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Techquila
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Techquila's Topic Map World
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The Techquila Topic Map World topic map is an
attempt to gather together a comprehensive database of
information about topic maps and topic map applications
in a single topic map resource.
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The MITRE Corporation
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The TAO of Topic Maps
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A paper from XML Europe 2000 that provides an
introduction to topic maps, taking as its starting point
the forms of navigation with which we are all familiar
from the world of printed information: indexes,
glossaries and thesauri.
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The TM4J Project
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TMAPI.org
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tmproc
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tmproc is a topic map processing engine
written in Python. tmproc stores the processed topic map
information in memory only.
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TMQL Draft Requirements
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Early draft of the TMQL requirements.
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TMQL Requirements 1.0.0
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Requirements for the TMQL language as a whole
and the query portion of that language in particular.
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TMTab
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A plugin for the ontology editor application
Protege which enables a Protege project to be exported
in XTM syntax.
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tolog
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A Prolog-like query language for topic maps.
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tolog - a topic map query language
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A paper from XML Europe 2001 that describes a
query language for topic maps called tolog. This query
language is inspired by Prolog and fully supports the
[TMQL] requirements. It has a clear and simple syntax,
and its basic features are easy to implement.
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Topic Map API
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A common programming interface to topic map
information. Provides a DOM-like structure for accessing
and modifying a topic map.
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Topic Map Designer
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A graphical topic map editor with a
drag-and-drop user interface for creating topics and associations.
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Topic Map Loom
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Topic Map Loom? technology is used to create
topic maps and apply those maps to existing information
sets. It works by transforming documents in given
formats into documents in other formats with all
navigation features in place. Topic Map Loom is not
designed to create source information or store source
information. Likewise, it is not designed to be used as
a browser or a publishing engine. Topic Map Loom simply
enables the user to create a topic map and apply that
map to source information in order to create browsable
or printable output.
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Topic Map Query Language
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A query/update language for topic maps being
developed by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34.
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Topic Map World
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A Topic Map of people, products, and writings related to the topic map research community.
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Topic Maps and RDF: A first cut
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Ten theses on the relationship between topic
maps and RDF. This is a first cut at understanding the
similarities and differences between these two
approaches to making information findable.
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Topic Maps for Repositories
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A paper presented to XML Europe 2000 which
describes the potential of applying topic maps to
improve access to and navigation around a multi-user
document repository.
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Topic Maps Published Subjects for Geography
and Languages TC
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Topic Maps Published Subjects TC
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Topic Maps visualization
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Topic maps - the new ISO standard ISO-IEC
13250 - provide a bridge between the domains of
knowledge representation and information management.
Topics and topic associations build a structured
semantic link network above information resources. Our
research aims at visualizing this semantic layer
efficiently, which is a critical issue as topic maps may
contain millions of topics and associations. This paper
is divided into 3 parts. First, we depict briefly basic
topic maps concepts. Then, we review a few graph
visualization techniques. Finally, we describe the
visualization tool we developed at the Laboratoire
d'Informatique de Paris 6 and study how this tool
may be used - and enhanced - for topic maps visualization.
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Topic Maps, The Business Case
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A paper presented at XML 2001 which presents
real-world case-studies of the applicaition of topic
maps to systems development. The paper includes examples
of topic maps for structuring and delivering web
content, topic maps as a flexible data structure for
complex applications and topic maps used for systems integration.
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Topicmaps.net's Processing Model for
XTM 1.0
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Topicmaps.net's Processing Model for XTM
1.0 defines a set of rules for processing topic map
documents in order to reconstitute the meaning of the
information they are intended to convey to their
recipients. It could be used as a partial blueprint for
a topic maps application, but that is not its primary
purpose. Its primary purpose is merely to illustrate, in
a rigorous fashion, the authors' deepest
understanding of the meaning of topic map information.
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TopicMaps.Org
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http://www.topicmaps.org/
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Towards A General Theory Of Scope
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A paper from Extreme Markup 2001 that provides
the first ever in-depth examination of the topic map
concept of "scope": What scope is, how to use
it, how it relates to "context", and not least
how applications might take advantage of it when
processing a topic map.
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User Documentation
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End-user documentation for a product or
software application.
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Visualisation
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Graphic representation of topic map information.
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XML Schema Topic Map
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The XML Schema topic map is presented as a
guide index along-side the W3C XML Schema
Recommendation. Browsing the index, in many cases
automatically loads the relevant part of the XML Schema
recommendataion documents. Currently only an HTML-ized
version of the topic map is published, although XTM
files are available from the author on request.
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XML Topic Maps
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The first book dedicated to topic maps.
Contains chapters covering the basics of topic maps and
XTM syntax; knowledge representation and ontological
engineering; creating enterprise web sites from XTM
documents; open-source topic map applications; semantic
networks and knowledge organisation; and visualisation techniques.
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XML Topic Maps And Technical Information Systems
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On first glance, the TM (Topic Map) paradigm
appears to be an attractive way to handle the complex
structures in which technical information is created and
used. A contemporary Technical Information System
consists of database items, external files or BLOBS, and
an application that knows the meaning (semantics) of all
items. TMs offer a way of describing the semantics in
the data itself, to build up a self-explaining knowledge
store. TMs promise easy integration with TM-based
knowledge bases from other sources, technical or not.
They also promise generic support for terminology
management, semantic search capabilities, inferencing
and other useful features. However, challenges are
plentiful. Due to the vast amount of information and the
needs of the users, Technical Information Systems place
high demands on the stability of the underlying
software, as well as on its performance. It is not
obvious that TMs are suitable to store the structures
underlying technical information. The advantages of TMs
may be purchased with new disadvantages. This paper is
based on the diploma dissertation of Mario Klesse, which
was written under supervision of the author, to
investigate the usefulness of TMs for Technical
Information Systems. Both agree that TMs can be used to
describe the information structures, but that the
technology is ? at the time of writing the thesis ? not
yet mature enough for productive use.
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XTM 1.0 Core Published Subject Indicators
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Contains topics representing the key concepts
of the topic map paradigm. If you are looking for a
topic for "topic" or "topicmap", you
will find them here!
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XTM Interchange Syntax
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An XML vocabulary for the interchange of topic
map information as defined in [XTM 1.0]. This syntax
uses XML notation and XLink linking structures.
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XTM Languages Topic Map
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Contains topics for both countries and languages.
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XTM Perl Modules
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A collection of Perl modules for parsing and
manipulating topic map data. Topic maps can be loaded
from an XML based resource (local or remote via an URL)
as prescribed by the XTM standard. There is also a way
to tie a map to any persistent medium. The latter is
especially interesting when running this module along
with a (web) server.
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