Topic Maps

Abstract. As we migrate from document-centric to subject-centric computing, we are discovering new approaches to the online facilitation of collective sensemaking. Our approach is to federate with a central topic map the many different tools of hypermedia discourse, such as social ...

The advancement of a Semantic Web both entails and promotes new collaborative practices in Web content management, e.g. for e-business applications. These practices involve cognitive interactions which must be taken into account in the aims of the Semantic Web, and encouraged by using and completing its standards, with a Knowledge Engineering approach.

Designing a Griotte for the Global Village: Increasing the Evidentiary Value of Oral Histories for Use in Digital Libraries. (August 2011) Rhonda Thayer Dunn, B.S., Xavier University of Louisiana; M.C.S., Howard University; M.U.P., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. John J. Leggett A griotte in West African culture is a female professional storyteller, responsible for preserving a tribe‘s history and genealogy by relaying its folklore in oral and musical recitations. Similarly, Griotte is an interdisciplinary project that seeks to foster collaboration between tradition bearers, subject experts, and computer specialists in an effort to build high quality digital oral history collections. To accomplish this objective, this project preserves the primary strength of oral history, namely its ability to disclose ―our‖ intangible culture, and addresses its primary criticism, namely its dubious reliability due to reliance on human memory and integrity. For a theoretical f...

We present an excerpt of the document “Quantum Information Processing and Communication: Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe”, which has been recently published in electronic form at the website of FET (the Future and Emerging Technologies Unit of the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission, http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/qipc-sr.htm). This document has been elaborated, following a former suggestion by FET, by a committee of QIPC scientists to provide input towards the European Commission for the preparation of the Seventh Framework Program. Besides being a document addressed to policy makers and funding agencies (both at the European and national level), the document contains a detailed scientific assessment of the state-of-the-art, main research goals, challenges, strengths, weaknesses, visions and perspectives of all the most relevant QIPC sub-fields, that we report here. Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Th. Beth, ...

L'integrazione delle ICT negli ambienti di formazione ha dato origine negli anni a una rapida evoluzione non solo degli strumenti pedagogici, ma anche dei criteri e dei paradigmi della progettazione didattica. L'introduzione in questo scenario di tecnologie semantiche, guidata dai più recenti risultati di ricerca sulla natura reticolare della conoscenza e dei processi d'apprendimento, offre nuove interessanti prospettive nella definizione

Nowadays, data handled by an institution or company is spread out by more than one database and lots of documents of different types. To extract the information implicit in that data, it is necessary to pick parts from those various archives. To obtain a general overview, those information slices should be integrated. Different approaches can be followed to achieve that integration, ranging from the merge of resources till the fusion of the extracted parts. In this paper, we introduce Metamorphosis – a Topic Maps oriented environment that enables a conceptual navigation among heterogenous information systems – and we argue that Metamorphosis can be used to achieve, via Topic Maps, the referred semantic integration.

The ISO standard ISO-IEC 13250 – Topic Maps – provide a bridge between the domains of knowledge representation and information management. Topics and topic associations build a structured semantic link network above information resources. This research aims at visualizing this semantic layer efficiently, which is a critical issue as topic maps may contain millions of topics and associations. This paper has 3 parts. First, we depict briefly basic Topic Maps concepts. Then, we review a few topic map visualization techniques. Finally, we describe the visualization tool we developed and study how this tool may be used – and enhanced – for Topic Maps visualization.

The main objective of this work is to exploit the relationship between the information findability problem and a subject-based organization of information. Identification of a subject is involved when one wants to say something about that subject or when he or she tries to comprehend what was said by others about it. An example of this type of duality can

The purpose of this study was to propose a multi-layer topic map analysis of palliative care research using co-word analysis of informetrics with Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map (GHSOM). The topic map illustrated the delicate intertwining of subject areas and provided a more explicit illustration of the concepts within each subject area. We applied GHSOM, a text-mining Neural Networks tool, to obtain a hierarchical topic map. The result of the topic map may indicate that the subject area of health care science and service played an importance role in multidiscipline within the research related to palliative care.

This topic map was generated from the 2011 data set of the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS):
Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) 2013. The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://wals.info.)

This paper describes a multimedia, multilingual and multimodal research system (CIMWOS) supporting content-based indexing, archiving, retrieval and on-demand delivery of audiovisual content. There are several projects, aiming at developing advanced technologies and systems to tackle the problems encountered in multimedia archiving and indexing [8], [9], [10]. CIMWOS [1] (Combined IMage and WOrd Spotting) incorporates an extensive set of multimedia technologies

Our poster presents some basis which lead us to redesign the Project EA-2003-52 suportted by the Spanish Ministry of Education about subject gateways, and at the same time tries to open a discussion about a new paradigm: Topic Maps, which is not very widespread, nowadays, but we think it can be interesting to incorporate into software engineering projects as a technical terminology. Not only it is new profound paradigm shift but also an unknown vision of how to represent knowledge in a smart way. Can concept maps be topic maps?

Abstract: Indexing languages have traditionally been an essential tool for organizing and retrieving documental information. The inclusion of indexing languages into the digital environment leads to new frontiers, but also new opportunities. This study shows the historical evolution of the indexing languages and its application in document management field. We analyze diverse trends for their digital use from two perspectives: their integration with other digital and linguistic resources, and the adjustment of them into the Web environment. Finally, there is an analysis of how these languages are used in the Web 2.0 and the incorporation of ontologies in the Semantic Web.

Hoje em dia a presenca na Web e quase mandatoria para todos os intervenientes na sociedade da informacao. Assim, nao e estranho que muitas empresas e instituicoes dediquem uma grande fatia do seu tempo ao desenvolvimento e manutencao de websites. Esta tarefa tem sido uma grande consumidora de tempo e recursos. O que hoje e novidade e normalmente tido como garantido no dia seguinte pelos utilizadores. Os utilizadores nunca estao satisfeitos querem sempre mais: informacao actualizada, acessos personalizados, ... Para responder a estes requisitos os websites tem de ser dinâmicos e tem de ser capazes de reconfigurar automaticamente a sua estrutura, o seu conteudo e o seu aspecto visual. Este cenario tem favorecido a criacao de ferramentas para geracao automatica e manutencao de websites. Neste artigo, nao propomos mais uma ferramenta desta especie mas sim uma nova abordagem ao problema. Nesta nova abordagem o sistema e dividido em duas grandes camadas. Uma camada fisica que corresponde ...