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	Topicmaps.net's Processing Model for XTM 1.0, version 1.0.1: A Processing Model for XML Topic Maps
		This means that when a topic map construct, when encountered by a topic map graph building process, demands that that process create (or add characteristics to) a t-node or an a-node, that t-node or a-node must regard that syntactic topic map construct as one of its subject indicators.
		In a topic map graph, topic names and topic occurrences are connected to their respective topics by a-nodes which are instances of the "topic-basename" association template and the "topic-occurrence" association template, respectively.
		Topic merging is a process that, during topic map graph construction, begins with two or more t-nodes (and/or a-nodes) and ends with one t-node (or a-node) whose topic characteristics are the union of the topic characteristics of the original topics.
	www.topicmaps.net /pmtm4.htm (10247 words)

	Encyclopedia: Topic map (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Topic Maps are an ISO standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information.
		Topics, associations, and occurrences can be typed, but the types must be defined by the creator of the topic maps, and is known as the ontology of the topic map.
		Lars Marius Garshol's schema for topic maps in RDF
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Topic-map (435 words)

	XML Topic Maps (XTM) 1.0
		topic map document, on the other hand, multiple topics may reify the same subject (though preferably in such a way that they can be merged to a single topic during processing).
		Since subject identity forms the basis for merging topic maps and interchanging semantics, authors are encouraged to always indicate the subject identity of their topics in the most robust manner possible, in particular through the use of standardized ontologies expressed as published subject indicators.
		Topic map nodes are objects in the system's internal representation of a topic map that represent topics, associations, and scopes.
	www.topicmaps.org /xtm/index.html (7609 words)

	Topic Maps — Data Model
		Topic maps are organized around topics, which represent subjects of discourse; associations, representing relationships between the subjects; and occurrences, which connect the subjects to pertinent information resources.
		A topic map construct is a component of a topic map; that is, a topic map, a topic, a topic name, a variant name, an occurrence, an association, or an association role.
		Topic maps contain only subject identifiers (and not the corresponding subject indicators), and consequently it is the subject identifier that is the basis for merging.
	www.isotopicmaps.org /sam/sam-model (7604 words)

	Ontopia: The Topic Maps company
		Changes to the topic maps are automatically synchronized across the cluster guaranteeing data consistency across the entire cluster.
		Topic mapping is a new paradigm for organizing, retrieving, and navigating information resources.
		Topic maps are based on an international standard, defined by the ISO, and are interchanged using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) defined by the W3C.
	www.ontopia.net (1663 words)

	The TAO of Topic Maps
		Any two topics that share one or more subject indicators (or that have the same subject address, in the case of addressable subjects) are considered to be semantically equivalent to a single topic that has the union of the characteristics (the names, occurrences and associations) of both topics.
		For example, in a topic map devoted to presenting the tourist attractions of a country, scope might be used to qualify topics such that different views on the information were presented to prospective visitors and professional tour operators.
		With topic maps a user can wander at leisure through a multidimensional topic space of knowledge before deciding which information resources are relevant, instead of wading through volumes or megabytes of data in order to find what he or she is looking for.
	www.ontopia.net /topicmaps/materials/tao.html (7194 words)

	Cover Pages: (XML) Topic Maps
		Topic maps are bodies of information that consist of 'topics', each of which is a surrogate for a single subject.
		Topic Maps tools are ideally suited for providing the infrastructure to content intelligence solutions because of: the separation between subject management, subject organization and contents; (2) the ability to implement decentralized interoperable solutions; (3) the ability to reuse and exploit the existing information organization within the enterprises.
		Topic maps are organized around topics, which are symbols representing real-world things, associations representing relationships between the things, and occurrences, which connect the topic map to information resources pertinent to the topics...
	xml.coverpages.org /topicMaps.html (17121 words)

	ABout UCD Topic Map
		When we started work on the UCD Topic Map, we were thinking of being able to merge appropriate columns from different catalogs using the UCDs which so uniformly describe the columns.
		Topic Maps themselves may be stretched to do this by figuring out positional accuracies after necessary coordinate precession and taking into account the various error ellipses, but that part is best left to a specialized service.
		A cgi-bin program allows you to make a Topic Map out of your own table (provided it has the UCDs and is in a standard format) and merge it with any other Topic Map.
	www.astro.caltech.edu /~aam/science/topicmaps/ucd.html (1655 words)

	Topic map links
		Topic maps are based on XML, but go far beyond XML in terms of what they can do to organize information.
		On the integration of Topic Maps and RDF Data, by Stefan Decker and Martin Lacher.
		Topic Maps and RDF: An exercise in convergence, by Graham Moore.
	www.garshol.priv.no /download/tmlinks.html (849 words)

	Topic Map Query Language, Use Cases
		Topic Maps can play a role in such as system as link between the documentation management system, the process-aware knowledge base and the physical state of the system.
		As such the Topic Map is used as a sophisticated document index holding the knowledge which part of a document is relevant to the given context and which part of the knowledge base is to be consulted.
		If we assume that a proposed project is described via a topic map, then a query might try to figure out which parts of the projects can be covered in-house and which other parts will have to be outsourced as there is no local expertise.
	www.isotopicmaps.org /tmql/use-cases.html (6890 words)

	The Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS)
		It is a generic software development kit (SDK) that implements the Topic Maps standard and allows developers to access and manipulate the kinds of constructs found in topic maps (e.g.
		Designed primarily as a teaching aid to help newcomers understand the topic map concepts, it is also an extremely useful tool for debugging topic maps and for building demo applications.
		Users can easily define the ontology to which their topic map should conform, then populate the instances of topics, associations, and occurrences.
	www.ontopia.net /solutions/products.html (515 words)

	Topic Map Constraint Language
		The Topic Map Constraint Language (TMCL) is a formal language for defining schemas and constraints on topic map models.
		Specifically, TMCL is to constrain topic map models as defined by the Data Model for Topic Maps.
		The guide to the topic maps standards, which explains what is currently happening with the topic map standards.
	www.isotopicmaps.org /tmcl (185 words)

	Topic Map Articles
		Topic maps provide strong paradigms and concepts for the semantic structuring of link networks and therefore, they are a considerable solution for organizing and navigating large and continuously growing organizational memories.
		Since Topic Maps claim to be able to address these two universes, it is no coincidence that the debates that are currently agitating this community fall on both sides of the rift.
		The main focus of the paper is the introduction of 'topic map templates' a semi-official term coined by the standards' committee for a concept that the authors argue is a necessary but as yet unstandardized addition to the basic model.
	www.topicmap.com /topicmap/resources.html (5724 words)

	TMAPI - Common Topic Map Application Programming Interface
		The TMAPI specification defines a set of core interfaces which must be implemented by a compliant application as well as a set of additional interfaces which may be implemented by a compliant application or which may be built upon the core interfaces.
		For an application developer, this leads to non-portable code; the need to learn a new API for every topic map implementation he or she uses and the lack of a community of supporting developers.
		TMAPI hopes to do for topic maps what SAX and DOM did for XML - provide a single common API which all developers can code to and which means that their applications can be moved from one underlying platform to another with minimum fuss.
	www.tmapi.org (581 words)

	XTMPath, Manipulating Topic Map Data Structures
		When developing Topic Map based applications it is indispensable to deal with the data structures the underlying API provides to the programmer.
		The best way to overcome this problem would be to have a sample topic and association available in XML and identify the path from there.
		Useful for navigation, XTMPath does not have the ambition to become a fully-fledged Topic Map query language.
	topicmaps.it.bond.edu.au /docs/13?style=printable (1761 words)

	TopicMap: Techquila's Topic Map World Topic Map
		Index and knowledge drawing : a natural bridge from Topic Maps to XML SVG
		RDF and Topic Maps, An Exercise in Convergence
		Topic Maps Published Subjects for Geography and Languages TC
	www.techquila.com /topicmaps/tmworld (123 words)

	Topic Map
		Freely available tools and frameworks to allow developers to create, manipulate and visualise topic maps.
		A list of the major vendors and consultants offering topic map products and services.
		Resources relating to all aspects of topic maps: articles, tutorials, websites, examples.
	www.topicmap.com (71 words)

	start [topic-maps.org]
		Our aim is to be an entry-point to the Topic Map universe.
		We try to collect and present all the information a user needs to understand what Topic Maps are and how they can be used.
		This web page is also a test platform for various topic map software.
	www.topic-maps.org (151 words)

	Techquila - Topic Map Design Patterns For Information Architecture
		For topic maps to achieve widespread adoption and improved interoperability, a set of topic map design patterns are needed to codify existing practices and make them available to a wider audience.
		This paper presents the arguments for developing and publishing topic map design patterns and a proposed notation for diagramming design patterns based on UML.
		Finally, by way of examples, the paper presents some design patterns for representation of traditional classification schemes such as thesauri, hierarchical and faceted classification.
	www.techquila.com /tmsinia.html (165 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Topic map [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Topic maps have a standard XML-based interchange syntax called XML Topic Maps (XTM), as well as a de facto standard API called Common Topic Map Application Programming Interface (TMAPI), and query and schema languages are being developed within ISO.
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	encyclozine.com /Topic_map (245 words)

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