[Sigia-l] for Information Architects

[Alexander Sigel]

Dear Information Architects,

topic map-based information architecture is a hot topic, e.g. for the 
virtual, subject-oriented integration of portal content,
or the flexible content repurposing after aggregation.

see e.g.
http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tm-vs-thesauri.html
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/standards_for_distributed_information_architecture/
http://www.networkedplanet.com/download/tm-website-architecture.pdf
http://www.techquila.com/tmsinia.html

As one of the co-chairs of TMRA 2006, the international conference on 
Topic Maps research and applications,
I herewith invite you to submit to this conference, whether with a 
theoretical or a practical advancement.
Please contact me directly should you have any questions concerning this 
conference.

Best regards
Alexander Sigel

Alexander Sigel, M.A., Researcher in Semantic Knowledge Networking
Univ. of Cologne, Dept. of Information Systems & Information Management
http://www.wim.uni-koeln.de/19.0.html
sigel at wim.uni-koeln.de, +49 221 470-5322


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* Call for Papers *
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TMRA
Topic Maps Research and Applications

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TMRA 2006 - LEVERAGING THE SEMANTICS
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October 11-12th 2006, Leipzig, DE

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* Submission Deadline: June, 2nd *
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http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra
http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2006/cfp/TMRA2006_cfp.pdf

Objectives and Background
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TMRA – the annual conference series on Topic Maps Research and 
Applications - is a scientific and industrial forum whose main object is 
connecting the key players in the Topic Maps community. Here you will 
find researchers, users in government and industry, as well as the 
vendors, the luminaries, and the standards creators gathered for an 
exchange of ideas in a stimulating setting. TMRA is where new challenges 
in Topic Maps are identified and open issues tackled.

Topic Maps is a semantic technology designed for the integration of 
information and knowledge, and as such it is closely connected with 
other information-centric technologies. TMRA is the melting pot where 
Topic Maps meets adjacent technologies. Researchers and application 
pioneers from related disciplines are explicitly invited to present 
their efforts towards the advancement of semantic technologies.

Besides the keynotes, presented by leading heads of the Topic Maps 
community, there are science- and industry-oriented parallel tracks. 
Also poster presentations and demonstrations will be accepted, and the 
latest ideas from the community are presented in the more informal 
open-space sessions.

"Leveraging the Semantics"
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Topic Maps have a rich semantic model that is well designed to support 
information retrieval in general, but can also be used for an almost 
unlimited range of other applications. How can the semantics of this 
model best be leveraged in practice? What are the main open issues for 
the use of Topic Maps? Where is the place of Topic Maps in the muddle of 
semantic technologies? Finding answers to these questions will be the 
challenge of TMRA 2006; you are invited to contribute your best efforts.

TMRA is the melting pot where Topic Maps meets adjacent technologies.
Researchers and application pioneers from adjoining disciplines are 
explicitly invited to present their efforts in the advancement of 
semantic technologies. Some examples, from a remarkably incomplete 
listing, are:
markup languages, data modelling, artificial intelligence, natural 
language processing, cognitive science, philosophy and software 
engineering. Mutual discussions of current efforts support to leverage 
the semantics in Topic Maps technologies.

Topics of TMRA 2006
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Topics of the conference (scientific and industrial track, poster 
sessions) include but are not limited to the following objectives:

Leveraging the Semantics
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- Why are Topic Maps a semantic technology?
- Learning from other semantic web efforts
- Topic Maps as part of the semantic web
- Semantic Desktops and Topic Maps
- Topic Mapping and social software
- PSIs in heterogeneous environments
- Recommendations for PSI sets
- Reasoning with topic maps
- Rule Languages and topic maps

Standard related Topic Maps research
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- Topic Map standards - state of the art and further developments
- Query, update and constrain topic maps
- Living with XTM 2.0
- Deploying the TMRM
- Towards a general theory of scope. The next step.

Theoretic Topic Maps research
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- Overview of current Topic Maps research efforts
- Topic maps diff
- Creating topic maps views of various data sources
- Synchronizing topic maps against external data sources
- Connecting theories about the knowledge economy and Topic Maps
- Topic Maps modelling methodologies
- Graphical modelling languages for Topic Maps
- Topic Maps and DITA

Applied Topic Maps research
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- Overview of innovative Topic Maps applications
- Topic Maps driven portals and information environments
- Topic Maps visualization
- Topic Maps and web services
- Automatic generation of topic maps
- Topic Maps and business processes
- Topic Maps in knowledge and content management
- Topic Maps in news aggregation
- Enterprise information integration (EII) and Topic Maps
- Topic Maps in mobile environments and on mobile devices
- Topic Maps Services and Hosting

For the scientific track, we invite the submission of full papers to be 
published in the proceedings (LNCS/LNAI, Springer foreseen).
For the industrial track, we invite the submission of short papers to be 
published in the proceedings (LNCS/LNAI, Springer foreseen) or 
presentation proposals.
In addition, posters and demonstrations can be submitted.

Open-Space Sessions
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In addition to the presentation track, TMRA 2006 provides slots and 
locations for open-space sessions, like brainstorming for research and 
business projects. You are highly encouraged to stage such open-space 
sessions!

Submission
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We invite original, high quality papers with substantial contributions.
The proceedings of TMRA are foreseen to be published by Springer in the 
LNCS/LNAI series as post-proceedings. The conference language is English.
Submission deadline is June, 2nd 2006.

Program Committee
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Lutz Maicher (Chair) [University of Leipzig, DE]
Lars Marius Garshol (Co-Chair) [Ontopia, NO]
Alexander Sigel (Co-Chair) [Univ. of Cologne, DE]

Kal Ahmed [NetworkedPlanet, UK]
Frederic Andres [NII, JP]
Robert Barta [Bond University, AU]
Michel Biezunski [Infoloom, US]
Dmitry Bogachev [Omega B. Consulting, CA]
Karsten Böhm [FHS Kufstein, AT]
François Bry [University of Munich, DE]
Darina Dicheva [Winston Salem Univ., US]
Patrick Durusau [US]
Eric Freese [LexisNexis, US]
Sung-Kook Han [Wong Kwang University, KR]
Gerhard Heyer [University of Leipzig, DE]
Hiroyuki Kato [NII, JP]
Peter-Paul Kruijsen [Morpheus Software, NL]
Jaeho Lee [University of Seoul, KR]
James D. Mason [Y-12 Nat. Sec. Compl., US]
Graham Moore [NetworkedPlanet, UK]
Sung Hyon Myaeng [IUC, KR]
Steven R. Newcomb[Coolheads Consulting, US]
Jan Nowitzky [Deutsche Börse Systems, DE]
Leo Obrst [MITRE, US]
Jack Park [SRI International, US]
Steve Pepper [Ontopia, NO]
Rani Pinchuk [Space Application Services, BE]
Ray Richardson [Bell Laboratories, IE]
Thomas Schwotzer [Berlin Univ. of Techn., DE]
Stefan Smolnik [European Business School, DE]
Steffen Staab [University of Koblenz, DE]
Markus Ueberall [University of Frankfurt, DE]
Fabio Vitali [University of Bologna, IT]

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