All posts in category Ontopia

Searching a topic map with Ontopia

In Web Application Development with Ontopia – 3. Creating the JSPs I claimed that The next blog post will explain how to add a search page to our application. Well, turns out it didn’t. I actually never wrote a post on that topic. Heck, the blog has been more or less dead for much of [...]

Topic Maps Query Service – YQL for Topic Maps?

As I was playing with YUI3 and YQL (an awesome abstraction above and across web services — select * from internet) last weekend, I noticed that there is an open data table for sparql search. Not knowing whether such a thing already exists for topic maps, I created a simple Topic Maps search servlet that [...]

Web Application Development with Ontopia – 3. Creating the JSPs

Happy New Year 2010 After a busy December month, the Christmas vacation finally gave me some room to concentrate on what really matters. Here’s my third blog post on building web apps with Ontopia. A bit late – I had hoped to have it out before Christmas – but at least I made it within [...]

Web Application Development with Ontopia – 2. Creating the Database

Intro This blog post is part of a series on Web Application Development with Ontopia. Part 1: Installation & Requirements Part 2: Creating the Database Part 3: Creating the JSPs In part 1, we looked at how to set up Ontopia. We also described the application that we intend to build (a blog) and what [...]

Web Application Development with Ontopia – 1. Installation & Requirements

Introduction Ontopia is an Open Source application that lets you create, manipulate and navigate information represented in topic maps. It’s also a toolbox for building all sorts of applications. Among the advantages of topic maps driven applications are enhanced navigation and search capabilities. Ever since Ontopia went Open Source earlier this year, I’ve wanted to [...]

Shakespeare Topic Map

Back when I was in the university I took an undergraduate subject called Web programming. As part of that class, each student had to build a web site presenting the Shakespeare plays in a given format. The source was a bunch of XML documents. Building the site using PHP and SAX parsing was fun enough [...]

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