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GTM Updates

2008-06-03T23:35:00.001+10:00

Lars Marius Garshol has updated the GTM homepage with 3 recent presentations.

CXTM Test Suite 0.1

2008-05-22T15:16:00.002+10:00

Lars Marius Garshol announced that "We now finally have a release of the first version of the CXTM-based test suite for Topic Maps engines. It consists of 293 tests using four different syntaxes: XTM 2.0, CTM, LTM 1.3, and TM/XML. The tests have been verified using two different Topic Maps engines (OKS and tinyTIM), and should be reasonably reliable even at this early stage."

Perl TM now supports XTM

2008-05-18T15:13:00.000+10:00

Robert Barta has added XTM support to Perl TM now at version 1.41.

"During the last days I have added - without much enthusiasm, mind you - XTM support, for versions 1.0, 2.0 (and the intermediate 1.1). Especially 1.0 is cumbersome programming. Let's thank the XTM editors for the much simpler version 2. Support means deserialization and serialization, so you should be able to create valid XML instances in all the above flavors."

TMPlusPlus Beta

2008-05-07T15:01:00.001+10:00

Inge Henriksen announced the release of his open source C++ Topic Maps engine. It has bindings for lots of scripting languages:

"My first main goal with this new engine was to enable C++ programmers (the same programming language in which TM++ is written) to be able to use topic maps in their programs. The second goal was to make a really fast topic maps engine without having to fall back on caching and the likes. The engine is based around TMDM 1.0, and you can also work with XTM 1.0 and XTM 2.0 files."

Topic Maps and All That blog

2008-04-17T15:25:00.003+10:00

Steve Pepper has a blog about Topic Maps and related things: "I shall be using this blog to talk about the things that matter to me, the things I believe in, and to criticize the things I think need criticizing."

New CXTM Draft

2008-04-14T15:38:00.001+10:00

CXTM has a new home.

Meronymy blog

2008-03-30T15:11:00.001+11:00

Inge Henriksen has a new blog dealing with Topic Map issues.

A Topincs Store about Topic Maps

2008-02-18T16:19:00.000+11:00

Robert Cerny announced "a Topincs Store about Topic Maps. This
repository aims to support newcomers as well as long time community
members to gain a concise picture of this community and its efforts and
to help them find information about Topic Maps."

Topic Maps 2008 - program now available

2008-02-14T16:23:00.002+11:00

The programme for the Topic Maps users Conference in Oslo has been announced. The conference is being held in Oslo between 2-4 April 2008 and the theme is "Towards the Vision of Subject-Centric Computing".

Italian Web Site

2008-02-01T16:33:00.001+11:00

Giuliano Vivanet announced the first website deicated to Topic Maps in Italian.

"In fact, there are not many italian resources about this standard. Thus,
TMXTM.it is intended to introduce italian users to the Topic Maps paradigm.
It will provide an introduction (not too technical because I come from a
pedagogical background!!!) to the ISO 13250 standard, especially the Data
Model, its history and key elements, and a guide to the web resources available
(weblinks, tutorials, examples, conferences, ecc.)"

Italian Topic Maps Terminology

2008-01-31T00:08:00.001+11:00

Salvatore Vassallo has written a draft of an Italian translation of the Topic Maps Glossary.

Gene Ontology Topic Map

2008-01-28T16:16:00.000+11:00

The Wandora project have converted the Gene Ontology (public domain) into a Topic Map.

Topic Maps Snippets blog

2007-11-14T15:19:00.000+11:00

There's a new Topic Maps blog providing "news and links from the world of Topic Maps". It is written by the topic mappers at Bouvet (Ontopia) and appears to be very current and relevant.

AToMS (Asian Topic Maps Summit) 2007

2007-11-06T23:37:00.000+11:00

Steve Pepper announced that AToMS 2007 is to be held in Kyoto on December 12th, 2007.

"Do you live in East or South-East Asia, especially Japan, Korea,
China, Taiwan, or the Philippines? If so, I urge you to attend AToMS 2007 in Kyoto on December 12th. It will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about Topic Maps
and to network with Asian users and international experts."

PS. Slides of talks are avilable on the site.

A new release of the TM4L Editor

2007-10-10T23:49:00.000+10:00

Darina Dicheva announced that a new version of TM4L is available.

TM4L is an e-learning environment providing authoring and browsing support for creating ontology-based learning content and/or structuring digital repositories. TM4L utilizes topic map-based overlay structures that encode domain knowledge and connect it to (learning) resources, which are considered relevant to a specific domain. Its interface is translated into 9 languages including Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, Danish, Bulgarian, and Nepali.

The features added recently to TM4L include:
- topic map querying capabilities
- visual topic maps editing
- conversion between topic maps and RDF data
- plug-in architecture enabling users to add new features

Balisage: The Markup Conference

2007-10-05T23:56:00.001+10:00

Jim Mason tells us to mark our calendars:

Balisage: The Markup Conference
August 12 - 15, 2008
(workshop: August 11, 2008)

Balisage is designed to meet the needs of markup theoreticians and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of the field. It's all about the markup: how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space) - in short, changing the world and the web through the power of marked-up information.

Wordnet converted to a Topic Map

2007-07-13T15:40:00.000+10:00

Aki Kivela announced that an RDF version of Wordnet has been converted to a Topic Map by Wandora. Now there is a nice data set to load into your engines. "we have converted the WordNet to a topic map. Topic map is in XTM format. Wandora project file is also available."

New ISO Drafts

2007-07-05T00:04:00.002+10:00

A number of drafts were recently published.

Dublin Core in Topic Maps
http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0884.htm

A GTM level 1 proposal
http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0882.pdf
http://www.garshol.priv.no/blog/113.html

ISO 13250-1: Topic Maps -- Overview and Basic Concepts
http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0877.zip

TMDM -> TMRM mapping
http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0879.pdf

CTM (Compact syntax for Topic Maps)
http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0880.htm

TMQL
http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0887.pdf

Press release: Ontopia acquired by Bouvet

2007-03-16T16:10:00.000+11:00

Oslo, 16 March 2007

Ontopia and Bouvet announce that Bouvet has acquired all shares in Ontopia. Bouvet is a Norwegian consulting house of more than 300 consultants, which has had a strong focus on Topic Maps for a number of years. Today Bouvet has around 40 consultants building Topic Maps-based solutions. According to the sales agreement, Bouvet acquires all of Ontopia's employees, partners, and customers, as well as the Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS). The move further strengthens Bouvet's Topic Maps focus.

Bouvet has over the past few years built Norway's leading consulting team on Topic Maps, and has developed more than 40 solutions for customers like Norway Post, the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, and the Norwegian Consumers' Council. Last month saw the launch of both the citizen's portal for the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city, and TheGovernment.no. Both launches have received wide media coverage.

Ontopia and Bouvet have had a close partnership over many years, and together delivered solutions like Kulturnett.no (Norwegian cultural portal) and the city of Bergen portal. The acquisition makes Ontopia part of a much larger entity, with the resources to take the Ontopia vision forward.

"Getting Ontopia's deep Topic Maps competence on board at Bouvet is very exciting for us. It strengthens our ambition to deliver a broad range of Topic Maps-based solutions. Given today's focus on semantic standards the timing is perfect," says Ole-Jørgen Tallaksrud, head of business development at Bouvet.

"We were looking for alternative ways to grow, and found Bouvet to be the most attractive option. Bouvet's broad competence complements our own narrower focus very well," says Ontopia's CTO Lars Marius Garshol. "We believe we can achieve much more as part of Bouvet than we were able to on our own."

"Ontopia has played a decisive role in establishing Topic Maps as an important technology, both in Norway and internationally," comments Steve Pepper. Steve has been chair of Ontopia's board until the acquisition. "I'm delighted that Bouvet, with their competence and professionalism, now take over this inheritance and carry it forward."

For more information, please contact:

Ole-Jørgen Tallaksrud, Bouvet, head of business development.
Email: Phone: +47 91 36 18 89

Lars Marius Garshol, CTO of Ontopia until the acquisition.
Email: Phone: +47 98 21 55 50

Sverre Hurum, Bouvet, CEO, Bouvet.
Email: Phone: +47 23 40 60 00

Fuzzzy - Social Topic Mapping

2007-03-06T15:52:00.000+11:00

Hey, hey - this one looks interesting: tagging with relationships. Roy Lachica announced the release of his soical topicmapping website - Fuzzzy. "The system is a web2.0 social bookmarking site using the TMCore Topic Map engine. The tags used to categorize bookmarks are topics within a shared Topic Map and topics with associations are created by the users." Find out more.

Welcome to Topic Maps 2007

2007-02-05T23:30:00.000+11:00

The programme for the Topic Maps User Conference was announced.

"We are very happy with the program, which has 24 presentations on the
conference day in three parallel tracks. It is an international
conference in more than name. There will be people of more than 10
different nationalities giving presentations. – Are you up to date on
Topic Mapping in Finland, Korea or Nepal?"

Autonomous Topic Maps

2006-11-18T14:53:00.000+11:00

Lutz Maicher has developed the concept of Autonomous Topic Maps: "These are topic maps containing workflow definitions. The execution of these workflows produces new topic maps according to the modelling method defined by the workflows. Broadcasting your Autonomous Topic Maps scales the omnipresence production of new topic maps according to the construction plans you have designed and you want to establish."

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Topic Maps 2007

2006-11-07T20:24:00.002+11:00

Topic Maps 2007 - The First International Topic Maps Users Conference
Hosted by the Norwegian Computer Society. Co-sponsored by OASIS.

Building on four years of successful Topic Maps conferences in Oslo,
the Norwegian Computer Society, in conjunction with OASIS, is proud
to announce Topic Maps 2007, the First International Topic Maps Users
Conference.

Oslo, Norway. 20-21 March 2007

An implementation of PHPTMAPI

2006-10-24T21:45:00.001+10:00

"The initial (alpha) release of an implementation of the PHPTMAPI
core interfaces can be downloaded now from sourceforge."

Wandora released

2006-10-20T21:42:00.000+10:00

Aki Kivela proudly announces the relase of Wandora, a "knowledge extraction, management and publishing environment based on topic maps... Wandora is a Java application similar to Protege and TM4L but the way of use is more WWW browser alike. Wandora's topic map model is little limited compared to the standard but has some very interesting features such as layered topic maps and RDF import. Wandora also supports SQL database storage of topic maps."

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