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Topic Map: An Ontology Framework for ...
by Rajkumar Kannan
The basic classification techniques for organizing information are thesauri, taxonomy and faceted classification. Topic map is relatively a new …
As a former information scientist, I am fascinated since 1999 by the capabilities for building Topic Maps-based knowledge systems having the potential to augment human mind. One can model arbitrary knowledge organization systems, deal with semantic heterogeneity, collocate all facts about one subject in one logical place, and with TMQL have semantic retrieval on federated semantic networks. Therefore I expect bright prospects for business concepts building on the exchange of such knowledge snippets via semantic knowledge services.



