Update stream for topicmapslab.de

INOSA 2012 [New event at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:57:47 +0000

Conference from 2012-06-06 to 2012-06-08.

Software has entered the private and social life. This conference shall bring together new technical trends, research and applications. We are looking for new technical approaches, ideas, theories and concepts in research but also for new applications. The conference will focus especially but is not limited on the following topics around Non-SQL and social applications. INOSA is the successor of the famous TMRA conferences.

befdata [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:33:34 +0000

The Chinese-European DFG Research Unit “BEF China” (FOR 891) has started a new forest Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (BEF) experiment in subtropical forests in China. Within “Central project Z2: Data management” a data portal specifically tailored to reflect the main scientific questions and the experimental design of the experiment is developed. The Portal shall shall not only be applyable to the befchina experiment but to other similar experiments as well.

Within the befdata project topicmaps are used especially for providing identity to the data.

Open Government Data Konferenz 2011 [New event at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:00:11 +0000

Conference at 2011-06-16.

Erstmals findet in Österreich eine Konferenz zum Thema Open Government Data statt: die OGD2011. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an jene, die am Prozess der Bereitstellung von Offenen Daten teilnehmen: Politik, öffentliche Verwaltung, Zivilgesellschaft und Wirtschaft.

Cassa [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:21:11 +0000

A SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol implementation for RDF and Topic Maps. The protocol allows creation of graphs, deletion of graphs and updating graphs and discovery of graphs (through the service description). The protocol is rather generic, so it’s usable for Topic Maps as well. More about the protocol here.

Oomap Loomap [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:30:13 +0000

Oomap Loomap is a GUI to execute queries against locally loaded Topic Maps.

Currently it supports the following languages: TMQL (TMQL4J implementation), tolog (Ontopia implementation), and Toma.

Similar projects are TMQL Console and Tamana.

Tamana [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:09:18 +0000

Tamana is a tool to view and refine topic maps. It provides a Maiana-like viewer, a refine view and a TMQL console to test TMQL Queries or to access a topic map via TMQL.

MaJorToM Server [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:00:10 +0000

Majortom Server is a Spring application which provides a TMQL HTTP interface to query topic maps. The server allows you to easily distribute topic maps sources.

CouchTM [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:16:10 +0000

CouchTM is a TMAPI topic maps engine which uses the CouchDB as backend. CouchTM can be used like any other Java based topic maps engine. Hans-Henning Koch’s Bachlor thesis provides more information about CouchTM. CouchTM as well CouchDB is available as open source.

schemafit [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:28:33 +0000

Schemafit is a generic tool which extracts from an “unknown” topic map a fitting TMCL schema.

MaJorToM-Connector [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:08:24 +0000

This Ruby gem provides easy access to any MaJorToM-Server. It allows you to easily decouple your Topic Maps backend from the application.

duke - fast deduplication engine [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:12:39 +0000

Duke is a fast and flexible deduplication (or entity resolution, or record linkage) engine written in Java on top of Lucene. At the moment (2011-04-07) it can process 1,000,000 records in 11 minutes on a standard laptop in a single thread.

TMQL Canonizer [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:39:22 +0000

The TMQL canonizer is a Java server page (JSP) which validates a TMQL query against the 2008, 2010 or 2011 draft of the query language. If the query is not valid, the detailed parsing error is presented. In the case the query is valid, the canonical form of the query and the complete parse tree is given.

The code of the canonizer is available in the TMQL4J project.

TMQL-BIRT Data Provider [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:25:28 +0000

BIRT is an open source Eclipse-based reporting system that integrates with Java/Java EE applications to produce compelling reports. The TMQL BIRT Data Provider is a new Data Source loading a Topic Map and querying it with TMQL. Hence your are able to use all your topic maps data in your reports.

UPDATE 2011-26-04: Version 0.9 beta released

Genny - Generic Topic Maps Editor SDK [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:54:58 +0000

With Genny it is possible to create a topic map editor based on a TMCL schema. The editor uses Aranuka to store generated POJOs into a topic map using majortom as topic maps engine. The input masks for the editors are generated by Kuria. The generated editor will be an Eclipse RCP application. The auto-generation facilities are built into Onotoa.

Spreadsheet Data Connector [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:13:58 +0000

The project provides an abstract layer on top of the Apache POI library (which allows to access spreadsheet data). The abstraction layer provides a specified query language (Spreadsheet Query Language - eXql) and additional method to access a spreadsheet.

The current version is designed to support the XLS and XLSX format of Microsoft© Excel® files. Excel® is registered trademark of Microsoft©.

SEMAPRO 2010 [New event at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:37:44 +0000

Conference from 2010-10-25 to 2010-10-30.

The inaugural International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing, SEMAPRO 2007, was initiated considering the complexity of understanding and processing information. Semantic processing considers contextual dependencies and adds to the individually acquired knowledge emergent properties and understanding. Hardware and software support and platforms were developed for semantically enhanced information retrieval and interpretation. Searching for video, voice and speech [VVS] raises additional problems to specialized engines with respect to text search. Contextual searching and special patterns-based techniques are current solutions.

TM2O - an OData service for topic maps [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:14:07 +0000

TM2O exposes Topic Maps data as Odata. The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for querying (and updating) data that provides a way to unlock the data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. Usually the topic maps exposed by this service as OData are managed by an external MaJorToM Server, but can also be stored locally in the service. You will find a list of OData consumers here. The TM2O documentation provides a getting started section.

Aranuka Code Generator [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:36:32 +0000

This project provides a library to generate Java POJOs based on Topic Maps schemas. The generated classes will have annotations for Aranuka, the Pojo to Topic Map mapper.

In addtion it is possible to add Kuria annotations to create SWT input masks based on the model code.

Another flag will generate helper classes for another Topic Maps Lab project: Genny - The Generic Editor Software Developement Kit. This project will be open source soon.

TMQL syntax for Codepress [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:41:40 +0000

TMQL syntax for highlighting TMQL in Codepress. This syntax is used in Maiana.

TMQL Console [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:33:34 +0000

TMQL console to run TMQL queries against locally loaded topic maps. The TMQL console uses TMQL4J and MaJorToM-in-memory. It is implemented in Java.

Karl-Benjamin-Preusker-Portal [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:58:36 +0000

Karl Benjamin Preusker (* 22. September 1786 in Löbau; † 15. April 1871 in Großenhain) is the founding father of scientific archaeology and general public education in the former kingdom of Saxony.

The portal documents the correspondence of Preusker. Hence it provides deep insights into the social network around this historical figure. The project is a cooperation of the State ministry of archaeology in Saxony, the Topic Maps Lab and TML consulting.

The data is manually collected with a tool automatically generated based on the ontology (in Onotoa). The portal is a Ruby on Rails application with a MaJorToM server as backend. It uses several javascript libraries for the visualisation features. More technical details (in German) are provided here.

Repertoire of the St. Thomas church boy choral (1808-2008) [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:31:04 +0000

Das Ziel des Vorhabens ist es, eine EDV-gestützte Bestandsaufnahme zum Repertoire („Ka*non“) des Leipziger Thomanerchors (1808-2008) sowohl der Forschung wie auch der inte*ressierten Öffentlichkeit als Datenbank online verfügbar zu machen. Die aufbereiteten Mas*sendaten gewähren einen möglichst lückenlosen Einblick in die Aufführungsstatistik (Erfas*sung von Komponisten und Werktiteln) und die Aufführungspraxis (Besetzungen, Bearbei*tungen, Spielorte, Mitwirkende). Mittels gezielter Datenabfrage wird es den Nutzern möglich sein, die jeweils gewünschten personenbezogenen, repertoire- und programm*statistischen Auskünfte zu erhalten. Die umfängliche Evaluation, die sich auf die Zeitspanne von zwei Jahrhunderten konzentriert, soll die Statik und Dynamik des musikalischen, theologischen, stadt- und kulturgeschichtlichen Profils des Chors einzigartig greifbar machen. Sie bietet eine unverzichtbare Grundlage nicht nur zur umsichtigen Darstellung des städtischen und kirchli*chen Musiklebens, sondern ebenso zur Beurteilung der Chorpraxis in gesellschaftspolitischer Hinsicht. Erste Auswertungen der Befunde bleiben einer eigen*stän*digen Publikation vorbe*halten, die im Rahmen weiterer musikwissenschaftlicher und kirchen*geschichtlicher For*schungen zur 800-Jahrfeier des Chors (2012) erscheint.

JTM writer [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:41:44 +0000

The JTM writer is an open source, Java based deserializer for the JSON topic maps notation. The JTM writer is built into Maiana. The writer supports both avaible version of the JTM notation 1.0 and 1.1.

3rd International Conference of Managing Knowledge for Space Missions [New event at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:20:55 +0000

Conference from 2010-06-21 to 2010-06-23.

Aerospace companies and space agencies are making use of a large variety of methods to capture, store, organize, and distribute key knowledge from their experts and missions. These methods involve different processes, people, and technologies to accomplish the goals of the organization. The focus of the Conference is on how the different organizations have organized Knowledge Management internally, and also the processes they are using. Learning how Knowledge Management issues are addressed help to improve the mutual understanding of Knowledge Management and build a forum on how in the future the global community can do so.

PSMID.de [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:45:40 +0000

Information portal about plant protection products in Germany. The portal bases on the semantic topicWorks technology from Nexxor.

Data repositories in environmental sciences - concepts, definitions, technical solutions and user requirements [New event at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:04:35 +0000

Meeting at 2011-03-01.

Quality proofed research data build the foundation for scientific knowledge gain. Although billions of Euros are spent annually in Germany alone to acquire data only a fraction are accessible over time and are re-used in further contexts. The Alliance of German Science Organisations acknowledges this problem and pools activities for their solutions. Interdisciplinary research project repositories are at the intersection of data collection in the field, work-in-progress-storage, and long-term archiving. Against this background the workshop explores required standards of data capture, data curation and interchange with respect to technical and social issues, and addresses
challenges in long-term archiving in a national and international framework.

The aim is to bring together the community of project database manager, standards developer, information scientists, librarians, and funding agencies. As results, we anticipate a better communication between the many disciplines, an overview of the current state of the art and a roadmap for future activities.

(Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/725506740/ )

Notesmappr [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:52:48 +0000

NotesMappr is semantic note taking - note taking that fits your brain.

NotesMappr is a semantic note taking app. NotesMappr’s contextual note taking features enable the effective transmission and transformation of knowledge, ideas, and experiences.

NotesMappr is unique in that it provides you with the ability to establish meaningful relationships between your notes. Hence, NotesMappr’s distinguishing feature is the ability to both establish formal relationships (or associations) between notes and subsequently navigate said notes in a very straightforward manner.

Furthermore, When you type “WikiWords” (words with multiple capital letters) in the body of a note, NotesMappr automatically turns said WikiWords into links to other notes - just tap a link to create the new note. The WikiWords feature is an additional way to create and manage notes within their context.

Obviously, a set of notes, in and of itself is a valuable thing. However, said set of notes becomes much more valuable if the notes themselves are related in an appropriate manner.

Having context gives you a lot of benefits. For example, context enables both easy and quick discovery of information saving you time. Furthermore, context enables you to expand your knowledge without the risk of your knowledge becoming disjointed or fragmented.

Please keep in mind that NotesMappr’s specific purpose is the semantic organization of notes. If you have no need or desire to organize your notes in a contextual manner, then it is highly unlikely that NotesMappr will be appropriate for your needs. That is, if all you want in terms of organizing your notes is either a simple list or folder structure, then NotesMappr’s semantic features will introduce a level of unwanted complexity.

Goozzee [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:08:55 +0000

Goozzee’s goal is to offer an easy-to-use knowledge management solution, suitable for small teams or companies.

Unlike most existing knowledge management software, Goozzee’s classification system isn’t based on hierarchies or tags: it uses Topic Maps, which allow a much more advanced and flexible knowledge classification.

cablemap [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:41:50 +0000

Cablemap converts the WikiLeaks Cablegate dataset into Topic Maps. Further,
it provides utilities to extract information from the Cablegate dataset
independently of Topic Maps.

NECOBELAC [New project at topicmapslab.de]

topic@topicmapslab.de (tmlab) — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:09:10 +0000

NECOBELAC is a Network of Collaboration Between Europe & Latin American-Caribbean countries. The project works in the field of public health NECOBELAC aims to improve scientific writing, promote open access publication models, and foster technical and scientific cooperation between Europe & Latin American Caribbean (LAC) countries.

NECOBELAC acts through training activities in scientific writing and open access by organizing courses for trainers in European and LAC institutions.