Scaling Topic Maps

1. Front Matter

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2. Scaling Topic Maps

   1. Scaling Topic Maps

      • Mare Wilhelm Küster, Graham Moore

      Pages 1-13

3. Applied Topic Maps in Industry and Administration

   1. Convergence of Classical Search and Semantic Technologies – Evidences from a Practical Case in the Chemical Industry

      • Stefan Smolnik

      Pages 14-24

   2. A Citizen’s Portal for the City of Bergen

      • Lars Marius Garshol

      Pages 25-35

4. Visualisation and Representation of Topic Maps

   1. TMchartis – A Tool Set for Designing Multiple Problem-Oriented Visualizations for Topic Maps

      • Hendrik Thomas, Rike Brecht, Bernd Markscheffel, Stephan Bode, Karsten Spekowius

      Pages 36-40

   2. Open Educational Topic Maps: A Text-Oriented Perspective

      • Lars Johnsen

      Pages 41-50

   3. Using Topic Maps for Visually Exploring Various Data Sources in a Web-Based Environment

      • Eicke Godehardt, Nadeem Bhatti

      Pages 51-56

5. Collaborative Applications

   1. Topincs Wiki – A Topic Maps Powered Wiki

      • Robert Cerny

      Pages 57-65

   2. Bookmap – A Topic Maps Based Web Application for Organising Bookmarks

      • Tobias Hofmann, Martin Pradella

      Pages 66-73

6. Standards Related Research

   1. A Theory of Scope

      • Lars Marius Garshol

      Pages 74-85

   2. Comparing Topic Maps Constraint Specification Languages

      • Giovani Rubert Librelotto, Renato Preigschadt de Azevedo, José Carlos Ramalho, Pedro Rangel Henriques

      Pages 86-97

7. Information Integration with Topic Maps

   1. Knowledge-Oriented Middleware Using Topic Maps

      • Robert Barta

      Pages 98-115

   2. Large Scale Knowledge Representation of Distributed Biomedical Information

      • Volker Stümpflen, Thorsten Barnickel, Karamfilka Nenova

      Pages 116-127

   3. Versioning of Topic Map Templates and Scalability

      • Markus Ueberall, Oswald Drobnik

      Pages 128-139

8. Social Software with Topic Maps

   1. Toward a Topic Maps Amanuensis

      • Jack Park

      Pages 140-153

   2. Cooperative Building of Multiple Points-of-View Topic Maps with Hypertopic

      • L’Hédi Zaher, Jean-Pierre Cahier, Claude Guittard

      Pages 154-159

   3. Metadata Creation in Socio-semantic Tagging Systems: Towards Holistic Knowledge Creation and Interchange

      • Roy Lachica, Dino Karabeg

      Pages 160-171

9. Topic Maps Engines

   1. Ruby Topic Maps

      • Benjamin Bock

      Pages 172-185

10. Topic Maps and Dublin Core

    1. Expressing Dublin Core in Topic Maps

       • Steve Pepper

       Pages 186-197

    2. Mapping between the Dublin Core Abstract Model DCAM and the TMDM

       • Lutz Maicher

       Pages 198-213

The papers in this volume were presented at TMRA 2007, the International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, held October 11–12, 2007, in Leipzig, Germany. TMRA 2007 was the third conference in an annual series of international conferences dedicated to Topic Maps in science and industry. The motto of TMRA 2007 was “Scaling Topic Maps.” Taken literally the motto implies developing Topic Maps approaches that scale to large data and user volumes. This is a very real and useful research problem which is addressed by many of the contributions to the conference. But there is an even broader interpretation of the motto: wide adoption of Topic Maps in academia and industry. This is an equally important problem, and one that the TMRA conference series exists to help solve. And there is a more fanciful view on the motto. To “scale” can also mean to climb, so for the attendees the conference provided a way to “scale the mountain of Topic Maps.” In all these ways TMRA 2007 helped to scale Topic Maps.

• Administration
• Dublin core
• Social Software
• biology
• blog framework
• case study
• conceptual modeling
• design methodology
• enterprise information integration
• information management
• information retrieval
• knowledge representation
• learning software
• service-oriented computing
• visualization

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