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Topic Maps 2008 - Day 1

Alex Wright of New York Times held the opening keynote of Topic Maps 2008. Wright talked about “Hierarchies, Networks, and the web that Wasn’t“.

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I am currently at the 2nd International Topic Maps Conference, held in Oslo, Norway; Topic Maps 2008. Today was tutorial day.

This is what I got some insight into today (they are all bits and pieces, but I include the notes here for sharing).

Open Source Topic Map Portals

Arnar Lundesgaard, the lead developer of Zope Topic Maps, held a 1/2 day presentation on ZTM3. For me, it was vital to attend this introduction to ZTM3, as I have high hopes for it … and we will def. be building sites on it in the not too distant future.

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It seems like the program for Topic Maps 2008 has been released (in a provisional form). It is also possible to register for the conference.

Update Feb. 15th: the program is now official. Be sure to check it - or the excellent list of Presentations - out!

FYI: Topic Maps 2008 is being held in Oslo, Norway on April 2-4 2008.

Topic Maps 2008 is targeted towards users and potential users of Topic Maps, in particular:

• Information architects, software engineers, and project managers working with portals and web sites;
• Knowledge officers responsible for intranet-based knowledge management;
• Corporate and commercial publishers;
• Public sector providers of information;
• Students and teachers of computer science and library and information science.

Links: Call for Presentations, Keynote Speakers.

This year I was lucky enough to get to participate at the TMRA 2007 conference in Leipzig, Germany.

It was very interesting to hear some of the most prominent topic mappers giving talks on a range of interesting subjects, and promising to see that the community is getting there and that the missing standards work is not too far away.

I did also enjoy the tutorials on TMQL and CTM, and having done some work with XQuery in the past - at least enough to have experienced how powerful and easy to use it is, I really liked TMQL’s XQuery-like notation for simple expressions. For example, given a topic type identified by person, the expression: (more…)