What's happening in the Topic Maps world?
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"The first German Topic Maps Congress will take place at April 10, 2003 in Darmstadt... Ten presenters (users, vendors, academics) will talk about how Topic Maps work, available tools, how to develop Topic Maps, how to visualize them, and how to integrate them with the Semantic Web approach. Real-world use cases will demonstrate various applications of Topic Maps."
Holger Rath will be presenting a one day tutorial at The World Wide Web Conference to be held in Budapest, 20-24 May 2003.
empolis has published the "The Topic Maps Handbook". "You will discover first hand which role topic maps play in the field of knowledge management, what a typical application could look like, how topic maps can be generated and of course, find a detailed introduction into this fascinating technology with numerous examples."
Robert Barta has provided an online tool for converting AsTMa files to XTM. Put the tool through its paces by converting an online AsTMa file.
Dan Corwin is seeking support from the XTM, Java and NLP interest groups for MODELER, a toolkit for encoding NLP lexicons under XTM 1.0. "NLP and XTM complement each other nicely, but they need some willing firms and individuals to follow suit. I'd welcome your support."
