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Tuesday, July 16, 2002
IDEAlliance Headquarters
100 Daingerfield Road
Alexandria, VA
CONTENT AGGREGATION USING TOPIC MAPS
http://www.idealliance.org/resources_tmseminar.asp
A one-day seminar presented by Michel Biezunski and
Steven R. Newcomb (Coolheads Consulting).
This seminar is for decision makers who are interested
in learning how to manage and exploit increasingly
massive and diverse information source in terms of the
the meanings and relevancies of their contents. If the
volume and/or diversity of your information resources
are preventing you from fully exploiting them, you will
find this seminar eye-opening and valuable.
We will focus on how the Topic Maps standard (ISO
13250) suggests and implies solutions. With this
paradigm, ontologies become interchangeable on a global
scale, but more significantly, the contents of
different knowledge bases can be usefully merged on an
ongoing basis, even if they are designed and maintained
independently of one another.
We will describe existing Topic Map projects,
highlighting their semantic integration aspects. We
will discuss how information management policies can
preserve the independence and value of heterogeneous,
multi-lingual, multi-perspective approaches, even while
fulfilling requirements for usefulness in new markets
and for enterprise integration and transparency.
Syllabus:
- The problem of information interchange. The issues:
where we are in respect to the ability to transmit
meaning.
- What XML can do, and what it can't
- Scaling issues
- Central repositories and user community boundaries
- Diversity: e.g. multilingual aspects of information
- The Topic Map Paradigm as a Solution to transmit meaning
- High level, neutral constructs: The topic-based
high-level model
- The underlying machinery: assertion-based model
- Case studies
Session is limited, so register today!
Marion L. Elledge
Executive Vice President
IDEAlliance
(founded in 1966 as the Graphic Communications Association)
100 Daingerfield Road
Alexandria, VA 22314
Tel: 703/837-1093
Fax: 703/548-2867
email: melledge@idealliance.org
Check out IDEAlliance's upcoming events!
www.idealliance.org
XML Europe 2002; 20-23 May 2002; Barcelona, Spain
http://www.xmleurope.com
Extreme Markup Languages 2002, 4-9 August 2002, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme
Spectrum 2002, September 22-25, 2002, Scottsdale, AZ
http://www.idealliance.org/spectrum
XML Conference and Exposition 2002, December 8-13, 2002, Baltimore, MD, USA
http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa
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