Topic map

Draft

Definition

• Topic maps is an ISO standard to organize a forest of resources

Topic maps

Architecture of a topic map

• All elements in a topic map are either topics or links
• Links are also defined with topics

Links

Standards

• XTM (XML vocabulary)
• ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps (3 dec 1999)

Software

• http://www.ontopia.net/. According to an announcement of April 20 2009, Ontopia will go open source. That's good news !
• http://tm4j.org/

Other

1. http://www.topicmap.com/
2. http://www.topicmaps.org/
3. http://topicmaps.it.bond.edu.au/weblogs.mc

References

• Lars Marius Garshol (2002), What Are Topic Maps, xml.com article HTML.

• Steve Pepper, Chief Strategy Officer, The TAO of Topic Maps, Ontopia AS HTML. (good introductory paper).

• Anitta Altenburger (2002). Authoring XTM Topic Maps, Part I, HTML

• Le Grand, Bénédicte et Soto, Michel, Topic Maps et la navigation intelligente sur le Web Sémantique, PDF

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