[Sigia-l] Topic maps and IA

[Jonathan Broad]

I just finished it as well, and can say further that it does a great 
job of situating topic maps in the context of subject-based controlled 
vocabularies.  It helped me better understand the relationships between 
topic maps and ontologies.

All-in-all, a great exercise in bridge-building between one of those 
doing the heavy lifting building next-gen knowledge infrastructure and 
IAs--the folks who should be most interested in exploiting that 
technology!  I'm thankful that Mr. Garshol has continued his work 
trying to get our community excited about what topic maps can do for 
us.  It's a brave new world past the boundaries of taxonomies and 
thesauri.  Now if the TM-aware toolset ecosystem would just calm down a 
bit...

Jonathan

On Mar 25, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Peter VanDijck wrote:

> I read Lars' paper and I can highly recommend it to any IA even 
> remotely
> interested in topic maps or just knowledge structures in general.
>
> PeterV
>
>> So, if you want to know how topic maps and ontologies compare to
>> traditional IA techniques like taxonomies and thesauri, you may want
>> to read my paper, which can be found at:
>>
>> <URL: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tm-vs-thesauri.html >
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