TM4J 0.9 Released

TM4J 0.9 "includes a number of significant changes and performance enhancements".

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tm4j

Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group

New W3C working group Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment "is focused on providing consensus-based guidance - including practical deployment recommendations, engineering guidelines, ontology / vocabulary development practices, educational material and effective demonstrations, designed to facilitate Semantic Web deployment." Bernard Vatant is a registered as a participating member of this WG.

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semweb
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Topic Map Wiki

It seems that it is time for a Topic Map Wiki - a Wiki which can support RDF/TM constructs. Wikis have been amazingly successful because of the ease with which it is possible to write on a subject and then to hyperlink the subjects. However, they lack the ability to type these links. A Wiki which supported a syntax which allowed the object, predicate and subject of a triple to be represented by pages in the Wiki would be a very powerful system indeed. The proposal at Topiki seems to be built on similar ideas. I have also just seen Platypus Wiki in my travels.

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tinyTIM - a tiny TMAPI implementation

"tinyTIM is a very small easy to use (50kb jarsize) in memory Topic Map engine. It implements the TMAPI interfaces, so one can work with TopicMaps via the TMAPI standard. TMAPI will be what DOM is for XML."

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tinytm
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Toma

Rani Pinchuk has put Toma forward as a TMQL suggestion.

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topicmaps
toma
tmql

ZTM

The Zope Topic Map System "aims to enable distributed development and maintenance of 'topic map'-driven 'semantic' web sites by handling data model information items derived from the ISO 13250 and XTM 1.0 as managed content under Zope CMF."

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zope
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