TMRQL

Networked Planet have published a document describing TMRQL "to be taken as input from Networked Planet Limited into the ISO TMQL standardisation process."

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topicmaps
tmrql

Final Committee Drafts of TMDM and XTM 1.1

ISO has just published Final Committee Drafts of TMDM and XTM 1.1.

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topicmaps
xtm
tmdm

International Workshop on Topic Map Research and Applications

Murray Altheim announced a call for papers for TMRA'05 which will be held in Villa Ida, Leipzig, Germany, 6-7th October 2005. "TMRA'05 ... provides a forum for community building in the field of Topic Map research and applications. A main objective of TMRA'05 is to chart the landscape of Topic Map research. Together we want to identify the primary open issues, who is working on what, bring together researchers and application pioneers, stimulate the systematic tackling of such issues, and foster the exchange of ideas in a non-commercial and stimulating setting. Besides the scientific track, open-space sessions are foreseen as playgrounds for visionaries."

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topicmaps
tmra

Semagia TMAPI Utils

Lars Heuer, an active contributor to TMAPI, has released a simple Java package, TMAPI-Utils, "that simplifies the working with the TMAPI index classes and offers methods for common object lookups."

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topicmaps
tmapi

Networked Planet

A new vendor has emerged - NewtworkedPlanet. Kal Ahmed and Graham Moore have joined forces to start a Topic Map company based on the .Net platform. "Networked Planet is pleased to announce the imminent availability of TMCore05, a Topic Map Engine for the .NET platform. TMCore05 has been designed as a toolkit to enable developers on the Microsoft .NET platform to create scalable topic map applications with robust persistent storage and full support for a multi-user environment. The engine supports the full range of the ISO standard Topic Maps specification and also provides a flexible web services API and easily-processed XML syntax to enable rapid application development and flexible deployment in a .NET environment.

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topicmaps
tmcore05
.net