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Developing A Topic Map Programming Model

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.

ISO 13250

The original description of the topic map paradigm, now in a second edition.

Scope

Techquila's Topic Map World

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.

tolog - a topic map query language

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.

Topic Maps and RDF: A first cut

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.

Topic Maps, The Business Case

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.

Topicmaps.net's Processing Model for XTM 1.0

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.

Towards A General Theory Of Scope

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.

XML Schema Topic Map

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.

XML Topic Maps 1.0

XTM 1.0 Core Published Subject Indicators

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!