Draft XTM Mime Type

The latest version of the Draft XTM Mime Type document has been put online.

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TM Nav 0.2.7 alpha 1

The TM4J Project is pleased to announce a new release (0.2.7 alpha) of TMNav (Documentation). The goal of the TMNav project is to provide an intuitive graphical interface for topicmap navigation. TMNav relies on TM4J as it's underlying topicmap engine."

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SNS Web Services

Thomas Bandholtz has been running a TM Web Service since Summer 2003 called SNS Web Services.

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SNAPI

The Semantic Network API (SNAPI) project was mentioned on the topicmapmail mailing list. The SourceForge admins currently are Graham Moore and Thomas Schwotzer. SNAPI is a "Remote API for Knowledge Access and Update. A C# and Java API designed to provide remote access to semantic web knowledge stores such as RDF and Topic Maps."

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Web Services

An interesting thread kicked of on the topicmapmail mailing list. A couple of projects that are underway were mentioned as well as different approaches that could be taken to web services: REST vs SOAP etc.

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webservice

Panckoucke Released

The TM4J Project has announced the initial release of which "is a java library to support the developement of topic map presentation and navigation tools. Panckoucke is a subproject of tm4j and relies on it as its underlying topicmap engine. It integrates tmharvest, another subproject of tm4j, to support the automated creation of topic maps from structured data. Panckoucke is free and open-source (under the Apache Software Foundation license).

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