Topic Map Explorer

A new desktop application, the Topic Map Explorer, "that provides a single, unified and structured way to organize, classify, find and share information" has been released by Semantic Web Technologies. There was some criticism of the product on the topicmapmail list for not being a conforming Topic Map Application and that the title of the product could be considered misleading.

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Merging of Distributed Topic Maps based on the Subject Identity Measure (SIM) Approach

Lutz Maicher has published his paper on merging TMs. "We adress with this paper the question how distributed topic maps can be merged if the subjects of their topics aren't described by a centralised vocabulary (PSIs). We developed a (lightweighted) approach wich yields for our example set very good results."

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univers immedia blog

A new blog discussing "how to achieve 'subject identification' in a distributed network".

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