At 2013-10-20 11:14 +1100, Stephen Cameron wrote:
>Topic Maps are something I have just discovered!
They've been around since the SGML days. A useful and powerful concept.
>Is this because I've not been listening, or, are they something
>thats been tried and found wanting? A second-hand book
><http://www.amazon.com/XML-Topic-Maps-Creating-Using/dp/0201749602/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382227843&sr=1-1&keywords=topic+maps>XML
>Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web is available
>on <http://amazon.com>amazon.com for $0.01. You cannot get cheaper,
>so this might be an indication of the later.
Ummmm ... I gather from its designer/implementer that information
maintenance for the entire US nuclear arsenal is managed using Topic Maps:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.109.5995&rep=rep1&type=pdf
And I heard that the entire Norwegian public education curriculum was
something else being managed using Topic Maps ... a search just now
found a reference to that here:
http://www.lornet.ca/portals/10/i2lor07_proceedings/monday/papers/1-1.pdf
>Thanks for any insights you can offer.
I think it is just a matter of the right technology for the right
kind and scope of problem. You could write a topic map to manage a
book index, but it is a bit of overkill so I'm not sure anyone would do it.
Disclaimer: I was on the committee and a member of the original XML
Topic Maps effort. Note that the role XML plays in Topic Maps is
just as a serialization of the conceptual Topic Map that contains all
of the relationships.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
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