Topic Maps
Library Cataloging

Topic Maps


Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! by Lars Marius Garshol "argues that topic maps go beyond the traditional solutions in the sense that it provides a framework within which they can be represented as they are, but also extended in ways which significantly improve information retrieval."

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- Topic Maps And The Catalog
Topic Maps and Catalogues of Museums, Libraries and Archives by Liliana Melgar.This case study is about the usage of Topic Maps for catalogues of Museums, Libraries and Archives. The first part describes two projects using Topic Maps by implementing data...

- Topic Maps
Published Subjects for practitioners of RDF, Semantic Web, Topic Maps, Ontologies and Business Vocabularies! The OASIS Published Subjects TC is holding a nocturne, Monday, November 15th, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Taft Room in the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel...

- Topic Maps
Topic Maps are something I find difficult to grasp. That, is seems, is because they are very different from our normal approach in cataloging. In cataloging (and RDF) a resource is described by using a collection of defined fields (or triples). As I begin...

- Ontologies
The Beer Topic Map is a fun project.This is a collaborative project to create a topic map about beer. The idea is to first create an ontology for describing beer, and then allow people to provide their own content using that ontology. The topic maps provided...

- Rdf And Topic Maps
Taking RDF and Topic Maps seriously - what happens when you drink the Kool Aid by Kent Fitch is an older piece (but new to me), 2002, but worth a look.A great deal of attention has been focussed on the concept of the "Semantic Web". One of the core ideas...



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