Scaling Topic Maps: Third International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, TMRA 2007 Leipzig, Germany, October 11-12, 2007 Revised Selected Papers

Mare Wilhelm Küster, Graham Moore (auth.), Lutz Maicher, Lars Marius Garshol (eds.)3540708731, 9783540708735

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Topic Map Research and Applications, TMRA 2007, held in Leipzig, Germany in October 2007.

The 16 revised full papers and 4 revised short papers presented together with 1 invited paper and 1 keynote lecture were carfully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applied topic maps in industry and administration, visualisation and representation of topic maps, collaborative applications, standards related research, information integration with topic maps, social software with topic maps, topic maps engines, topic maps and dublin core, information management with topic maps, as well as open space and poster sessions.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Scaling Topic Maps….Pages 1-13
Convergence of Classical Search and Semantic Technologies – Evidences from a Practical Case in the Chemical Industry….Pages 14-24
A Citizen’s Portal for the City of Bergen….Pages 25-35
TM chartis – A Tool Set for Designing Multiple Problem-Oriented Visualizations for Topic Maps….Pages 36-40
Open Educational Topic Maps: A Text-Oriented Perspective….Pages 41-50
Using Topic Maps for Visually Exploring Various Data Sources in a Web-Based Environment….Pages 51-56
Topincs Wiki – A Topic Maps Powered Wiki….Pages 57-65
Bookmap – A Topic Maps Based Web Application for Organising Bookmarks….Pages 66-73
A Theory of Scope….Pages 74-85
Comparing Topic Maps Constraint Specification Languages….Pages 86-97
Knowledge-Oriented Middleware Using Topic Maps….Pages 98-115
Large Scale Knowledge Representation of Distributed Biomedical Information….Pages 116-127
Versioning of Topic Map Templates and Scalability….Pages 128-139
Toward a Topic Maps Amanuensis….Pages 140-153
Cooperative Building of Multiple Points-of-View Topic Maps with Hypertopic….Pages 154-159
Metadata Creation in Socio-semantic Tagging Systems: Towards Holistic Knowledge Creation and Interchange….Pages 160-171
Ruby Topic Maps….Pages 172-185
Expressing Dublin Core in Topic Maps….Pages 186-197
Mapping between the Dublin Core Abstract Model DCAM and the TMDM….Pages 198-213
On Path-Centric Navigation and Search Techniques for Personal Knowledge Stored in Topic Maps….Pages 214-225
KAIFIA: Knowledge Assisted Intelligent Framework for Information Access….Pages 226-236
Report from the Open Space and Poster Sessions….Pages 237-251
Back Matter….Pages –