XML Topic Maps: Finding Aids for the Web

by Steven R. Newcomb and Michel Biezunski 

Topic maps superimpose an external layer that describes the nature of the knowledge represented in the information resources. There are no …

Topic Maps at a glance

by Michel Biezunski 

Topic Maps are a tool to organize information in a way that is optimized for navigation. It addresses the problem of infoglut that we are facing. …

A Topic Map of Proceedings of the HyTime ...

by Michel Biezunski and Catherine Hamon 

Why does a Topic Map fit Conference Proceedings? The purpose of a Topic Map-based hyperdocument is to interconnect semantically heterogeneous …

General Introduction to Topic Mapping

by Michel Biezunski 

This introduction gives the main issues on Topic Maps in a short and easy-to-read way.

Information Technology -- SGML applications ...

by Steven R. Newcomb, Michel Biezunski, ...  

This International Standard provides a standardized notation for interchangeably representing information about the structure of information …

Introduction to the Topic Maps Paradigm

by Michel Biezunski 

The World Wide Web enables us to create virtually unlimited quatities of information and to make it immediately available to the world. We do not …

A matter of perspectives: Talking About ...

by Michel Biezunski 

This presentation was held at the Extreme Markup Languages 2005 and gives an overview on the perspectives of Topic Maps.

Differences between XTM 1.0 and the ...

by Steven R. Newcomb and Michel Biezunski 

The ISO/IEC 13250:2000 “Topic Maps” International Standard has two interchange syntaxes, the HyTime-based meta-DTD, and the XTM DTD. The following …

Topic Maps: The Inventor's Perspective on ...

by Steven R. Newcomb and Michel Biezunski 

Steve Newcomb will speak about the conceptual foundations of the Topic Maps paradigm. These conceptual foundations are more abstract (less …

ISO/IEC FCD 13250:1999 - Topic Maps

by Michel Biezunski, Steven R. Newcomb, ...  

This International Standard provides a standardized notation for interchangeably representing information about the structure of information …

PMTM4 - A Processing Model for XML Topic ...

by Steven R. Newcomb and Michel Biezunski 

Topicmaps.net’s Processing Model for XTM 1.0 defines a set of rules for processing topic map documents in order to reconstitute the meaning of the …

An API to a Topic Maps Graph, in XML

by Michel Biezunski and Steven R. Newcomb 

This TMGraphAPI3.dtd DTD is designed to express topic maps in such a way as to permit the information that they contain to be directly and …

Reflections from Advancing Topic Maps: ...

by Michel Biezunski 

When information is collected as is, as opposed to being organized in advance, the names used to designate subjects show variations that make it …

Topic Navigation Maps (1998)

by Michel Biezunski, Martin Bryan, ...  

This International Standard provides a standardized notation for interchangeably representing information about the structure of information …

A High-level Description of a Draft ...

by Steven R. Newcomb and Michel Biezunski 

The purpose of ontologies (sets of knowledge-bearing assertion types), taxonomies (classes of things, ideas, etc.), and vocabularies (such as markup …

Topic Maps: Next Generation

by Michel Biezunski 

Topic Maps have been a widely unknown specification until recently. However, since the ISO standard (ISO/IEC 13250) was published in January 2000, …

Topic Maps and XTM: A Manager's Overview

by Michel Biezunski and Steven R. Newcomb 

This presentation is an overview on the uses and purposes of Topic Maps especially for Managers.

Cognitive Topic Map Web Sites: Aggregating ...

by Michel Biezunski 

This presentation is about the advantages of topic maps for business and governmental institutions.

XTM Update

by Michel Biezunski 

This presentation is about new development of the XML Topic Maps (XTM).

A High-level Topic Maps-based Language for ...

by Michel Biezunski 

This presentation is about the concept of Topic Maps and deals with some considerations about its needs, possibilities and usefulness.

RDF and Topic Maps: Something new for ...

by Michel Biezunski and Steven R. Newcomb 

What would be involved in a lossless transformation of a topic map into RDF form, and/or from RDF form into Topic Map form? This question forces us …

Topic Maps and Beyond: Connecting ...

by Michel Biezunski 

This presentation is about the following points: – Topic Maps In A Nutshell – Topic Maps & RDF – Topic Maps Applications: The Tax Map Story – …

Topic Maps Data Modell (2006)

by Michel Biezunski, Steven R. Newcomb, ...  

This part of ISO/IEC13250 specifies a data model of Topic Maps. It defines the abstract structure of Topic Maps, using the information set …

The Story of IRS Tax Map

by Michel Biezunski and Steven R. Newcomb 

This presentation is about the topic map-based web service IRS Tax Map.

5 years of Topic Map implementation: ...

by Michel Biezunski 

This presentation will focus on lessons learned from almost six years of building and maintaining a major topic map as a contractor to a national …

Was presented at Topic Maps 2007.