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 [...]
Topic Maps Query Service – YQL for Topic Maps?
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2010/topic-maps-query-service-yql-for-topic-maps/
Billy-Corgan.com Re-Launched as Topic Maps Based Website
Billy-Corgan.com was the first public web site I ever created and ran. I first started playing with it (and web techs) in 1998/99. In 2000, I moved it from GeoCities to its own domain name. The site had it’s golden age in 2003/2004, with up to 4 million page views / month. I believe that [...]
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2010/billy-corgan-com-re-launched-as-topic-maps-based-website/
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 [...]
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2010/web-application-development-with-ontopia-part-3/
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 [...]
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2009/web-application-development-with-ontopia-part-2/
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 [...]
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2009/shakespeare-topic-map/
Topic Maps in May: Ontopia & Subj3ct
Ontopia The Ontopia project has had it’s “kick-off” meeting, which I unfortunately could not attend, and set up a blog at http://ontopia.wordpress.com/, with mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/ontopia. Awesome. Subj3ct Back in May, NetworkedPlanet launched Subj3ct.com. I quote: Subj3ct provides the technology and services to enable Web 3.0 applications to define and exchange subject definitions. Bookmark [...]
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2009/topic-maps-in-may-ontopia-subj3ct/
Bouvet to Open Source Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS)
Great news from the world of Topic Maps: Bouvet is planning to open source the Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS) later this year. In case you don’t know, the OKS is a great topic maps engine and toolbox with features such as a navigator framework, web editor framework, the Ontopoly ontology editor, DB2TM (database to topic [...]
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2009/bouvet-to-open-source-ontopia-knowledge-suite-oks/