RE: SUO: RE: Topic Maps
There is a good collection of papers about topic maps at
http://www.doctypes.org/xtm/home.html#papers
The original ISO standard is at
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0129.pdf , but it's more thorny
reading than the very latest XTM text (February 10), which is at
http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/index.html.
Jim Mason
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(Chairman ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederick N. Chase [SMTP:fnc@mitre.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 08:54 a.m.
> Cc: standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org
> Subject: Re: SUO: RE: Topic Maps
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> "West, Matthew MR SSI-GREA-UK" wrote:
> > ....
> > Some responses please?
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> I followed the reference and ended up at
> http://www.TopicMaps.org/about.html
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> I tried to follow two links
> ( [ISO 13250] and [XTM1] ), but they were broken.
>
> So I put "Topic Map" into Alta Vista and found
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> http://www.hightext.com/Examples/wsweb/tp33.htm and, indirectly,
> http://www.infoloom.com/ .
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> My impression is that use of Topic Maps could enhance
> user access to an IEEE SUO.
>
> But I note that Topic Maps allow users to
> "connect information from diverse information sources, including ...
> legacy data."
> This is not a problem that we will have.
>
> Also, it seems likely that a debate would emerge on how the topics and
> relations
> used within the IEEE SUO Topic Map should be related to the IEEE SUO
> itself.
>
> -Fred Chase