The TAO of Topic Maps Export

@article{citeulike:3208006, abstract = {Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed ” the GPS of the information universe”, topic maps are also destined to provide powerful new ways of navigating large and interconnected corpora. While it is possible to represent immensely complex structures using topic maps, the basic concepts of the model – Topics, Associations, and Occurrences (TAO) – are easily grasped. This paper provides a non-technical introduction to these and other concepts (the IFS and BUTS of topic maps), relating them to things that are familiar to all of us from the realms of publishing and information management, and attempting to convey some idea of the uses to which topic maps will be put in the future.}, author = {Pepper, Steve}, booktitle = {XML Europe}, citeulike-article-id = {3208006}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2000/papers/s11-01.html}, keywords = {-luk, conceptual-graphs, conceptual-topic\_maps, semantics}, posted-at = {2008-09-09 06:40:39}, priority = {2}, title = {The TAO of Topic Maps}, url = {http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2000/papers/s11-01.html}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3208006 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3208006 N2 - Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed “the GPS of the information universe”, topic maps are also destined to provide powerful new ways of navigating large and interconnected corpora. While it is possible to represent immensely complex structures using topic maps, the basic concepts of the model – Topics, Associations, and Occurrences (TAO) – are easily grasped. This paper provides a non-technical introduction to these and other concepts (the IFS and BUTS of topic maps), relating them to things that are familiar to all of us from the realms of publishing and information management, and attempting to convey some idea of the uses to which topic maps will be put in the future. TI - The TAO of Topic Maps T2 - XML Europe KW - -luk KW - conceptual-graphs KW - conceptual-topic_maps KW - semantics AU - Pepper, Steve PY - 2000/// UR - http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2000/papers/s11-01.html ER -