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The Topic Maps Community

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

If you subscribe to the topicmapmail mailing list, you’ve probably noticed that a couple of weeks ago, Alexander Johannesen stirred up some discussion about TMRA2008 and the Topic Maps community (or lack thereof — and I’m sorry I didn’t blog from TMRA2008). (more…)

ECIM 2008 Presentation

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

The slides from our Topic Maps presentation at the information management workshop session of ECIM 2008 are now available at the conference website. Unfortunately, that page is password protected, so you may download (pdf) them here as well.

Topic Maps at the Expert Center for Information Management

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

If you’re working with Information Management and/or in the Oil & Energy sector, you might want to show up at the ECIM’2008 User Meeting and Conference in Haugesund, Norway September 15 - 17.

Bouvet will host a workshop on Topic Maps September 16.

Summer School on the Semantic Web

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Last week, I attended the Sixth European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW’08). As the name implies (well, not only implies..), it’s a summer school on Semantic Web stuff.

The school promises a good combination of theoretical and practical exercises (ref. programme), lead by some of the top researchers of the field. (more…)

Topic Maps - What Is It Good For

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

My most recent attempt at Explaining Topic Maps.

Topic Maps 2008 Day 1 & Day 2

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Better late than never…

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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Topic Maps 2008: Tutorial Day

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

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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