[Asis-l] Topic Maps for Memory institutions and Digital libraries in the Humanities

[Liliana Melgar E.]

Dear members of the list,

As part of my master thesis on Topic Maps (ISO/IEC 13250) I am trying
to collect its current applications in the so called "memory
institutions" (libraries, archives and museums), as well as in digital
libraries or collections in the Humanities.

I would like to ask for your kind cooperation by adding those you may
know to the following list. Those applications included here come from
references I have found in papers and presentations, and from some
replies that I have received from other mailing lists.

For more information on ISO Topic Maps:
-http://topicmaps.org
-http://www.topicmaps.com
-http://www.topicmapslab.de
-http://www.db.dk/bh/lifeboat_ko/CONCEPTS/topic_maps.htm
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_Maps

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TOPIC MAPS FOR MEMORY INSTITUTIONS AND DIGITAL COLLECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES

Catalogs of libraries, archives, museums
-Korean National Library (prototype in evaluation)
-Danmarks Kunstbiblioteks katalog (prototype not implemented) (Denmark)
-The Royal Library (prototype not implemented)  (Denmark)
-Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press:
http://highwire.stanford.edu/help/hbt/ (it's working, as a browsing
aid based on indexing terms)  (USA)

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Digital collections in the Humanities
-New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) at Victoria University of
Wellington http://www.nzetc.org/
-The Swinburne Project (USA)
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/tm4dh/topicmaps/swinburne.xtm
http://swinburnearchive.indiana.edu/swinburne/www/swinburne/index.html
-Auslit (Australia) http://www.austlit.edu.au/ (Note: it is inspired
by Topic Maps but not run by a topic map).
-WebKat.hu (Hungary) http://www.webkat.hu/scripts/webkat
-Collections of Finnish National Gallery http://www.fng.fi
-Musica Migrans (Germany) http://www.musicamigrans.de/
-Cedeca (Italy. University of Pavia)
http://www.cedeca.it/progetto.aspx (note: about 1600 topics and 4000
associations)
-Classical Mythology (USA)
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/tm4dh/topicmaps/mythology.xtm
-Arthurian Legend (USA)
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/tm4dh/topicmaps/arthurianLegend.xtm
-The folklore collection of the University of Athens Greek Literature
Department (not online)
-The Living Memory (Germany) (in progress)
-Kiasmart (Finland) ?
-Arppeanet (Finland) ?
-Mediateekki & Media Archive (Finland) (not online)
-Assembly Media Gallery 2004-2005 (Finland)  (not online)
-Town again (taken offline due to copyright issues) (Finland)
-Fish trout, you're out (Australia) (note: the prototype was a topic
map but not the end-product)
-Mauritius Collection (Australia) (a non working prototype).
-Korean Historical resources ?
-Korean Folk Music (Pansori) Retrieval System (not online)

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Newspaper content delivery in libraries
-Topic Maps Presentation Framework for newspaper content delivering
(New Zealand, Australia)
-OmniPaper (Canada) http://canada.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/omnipaper/

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Other uses of Topic Maps in libraries, archives or museums
-Hálózatos Irodalom (Hungary)
http://mekmester.oszk.hu:8080/itm/tmv/index.htm (E-learning
application on Hungarian literature for secondary school students
created by the National Library of Hungary)
-Picture Australia: National treasures
http://nationaltreasures.nla.gov.au/ (Australia)
 (creation of a website for a traveling exhibition)
-Potnia (Spain) (a tool for creating subject pathways using TMs, DC, RDF)
-Tema Tres (a tool for creating thesaurus –out of the scope of this
thesis though, it is for Information Architecture)
http://tematres.r020.com.ar/index.html (Argentina)

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Feasibility studies reported in papers or mailing lists (information
on conclusions is not available, and it’s not official)
-National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
www.diglib.org/forums/spring2007/presentations/nguyen.pdf (USA)
-National Library of New Zealand??
-National Library of Norway??


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Thank you very much in advance,

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Liliana Melgar
Erasmus Mundus student
International Master in Digital Library Learning
http://dill.hio.no