Scaling Topic Maps

by Maicher, Lutz; Garshol, Lars Marius

• ISBN13: 9783540708735
• ISBN10: 3540708731
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

"This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Topic Map Research and Applications, TMRA 2007, held in Leipzig, Germany in October 2007." "The 16 revised full papers and 4 revised short papers presented together with 1 invited paper and 1 keynote lecture were carfully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applied topic maps in industry and administration, visualisation and representation of topic maps, collaborative applications, standards related research, information integration with topic maps, social software with topic maps, topic maps engines, topic maps and dublin core, information management with topic maps, as well as open space and poster sessions."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Scaling Topic Maps	p. 1
Applied Topic Maps in Industry and Administration
Convergence of Classical Search and Semantic Technologies - Evidences from a Practical Case in the Chemical Industry	p. 14
A Citizen's Portal for the City of Bergen	p. 25
Visualisation and Representation of Topic Maps
TMchartis - A Tool Set for Designing Multiple Problem-Oriented Visualizations for Topic Maps	p. 36
Open Educational Topic Maps: A Text-Oriented Perspective	p. 41
Using Topic Maps for Visually Exploring Various Data Sources in a Web-Based Environment	p. 51
Collaborative Applications
Topincs Wiki - A Topic Maps Powered Wiki	p. 57
Bookmap - A Topic Maps Based Web Application for Organising Bookmarks	p. 66
Standards Related Research
A Theory of Scope	p. 74
Comparing Topic Maps Constraint Specification Languages	p. 86
Information Integration with Topic Maps
Knowledge-Oriented Middleware Using Topic Maps	p. 98
Large Scale Knowledge Representation of Distributed Biomedical Information	p. 116
Versioning of Topic Map Templates and Scalability	p. 128
Social Software with Topic Maps
Toward a Topic Maps Amanuensis	p. 140
Cooperative Building of Multiple Points-of-View Topic Maps with Hypertopic	p. 154
Metadata Creation in Socio-semantic Tagging Systems: Towards Holistic Knowledge Creation and Interchange	p. 160
Topic Maps Engines
Ruby Topic Maps	p. 172
Topic Maps and Dublin Core
Expressing Dublin Core in Topic Maps	p. 186
Mapping Between the Dublin Core Abstract Model DCAM and the TMDM	p. 198
Information Management with Topic Maps
On Path-Centric Navigation and Search Techniques for Personal Knowledge Stored in Topic Maps	p. 214
KAIFIA: Knowledge Assisted Intelligent Framework for Information Access	p. 226
Open Space and Poster Sessions
Report from the Open Space and Poster Sessions	p. 237
Author Index	p. 253
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