Guide to the topic map standards

A guide has been published by ISO SC34. It "describes what is currently being done, the problems that need to be solved, and how those problems came to be."

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SAM Homepage

ISO has now published a homepage for the Standard Application Model for Topic Maps (SAM). SAM is a formal data model which will be used as a basis for Topic Map syntaxes, query languages and schema languages.

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TMs in DMOZ

Bernard Vatant is now an editor of the newly formed topic map node (dmoz.org/Computers/Artificial_Intelligence/Knowledge_Representation/Topic_Maps/) in the Open Directory Project. NB. It subsequently moved to dmoz.org/Reference/Knowledge_Management/Knowledge_Representation/Topic_Maps/.

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ISO 13250

The 2nd Edition of ISO 13250 has been released.
Link | Text.

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XFML

eXchangable Faceted Metadata Language (XFML) is a markup language which "leans very heavily on some of the concepts of topicmaps". Peter Van Dijck, its author, is "hoping it will be simple yet powerful enough to be adopted within a year by weblog software and CMS's [and that] it will make people familiar with some of the concepts behind topicmaps so that technology becomes more widely understood."

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