TM Editor

George Tryfon announced the availablity of a free topic map editor from the TA-KT research group. It is now called Atop. "This Topic Map Editor is implemented in Java as a module under NetBeans 3.6."

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XML Europe 2004

Once again XML Europe has quite a few Topic Map presentations, especially in the Knowledge Technolgies Track. The conference will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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TMAPI support

Two TMAPI announcements only three days after the initial release of the interfaces. TM4J supports the interfaces, as does tinyTIM.

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TM Visualisation

Jens Kanschik has extended the HyperGraph homepage with a section about TM visualisation which uses tinyTIM as an engine in conjunction with HyperGraph.

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TMAPI 1.0 alpha release

Kal Ahmed has announced the first major public release of TMAPI. "TMAPI is a proposed common programming interface for topic map processors. The goal of TMAPI is to allow developers to learn and use just one programming API for work with any topic map processing engine - improving code portability and reducing learning curve. TMAPI is public domain software free from any restriction on its use."

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Extreme Markup Languages Conference 2004

"At Extreme Markup Languages software developers, tag set designers, librarians, computer scientists, linguists, markup theorists, taxonomists, publishers, lexicographers, typographers, and other XML bricklayers and pipefitters devote the better part of a week to discussing questions like: Will RDF or Topic Maps ever take off? ... How does a Topic Map mean?" The conference will be held in Montréal, Canada.

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