News from the ISO Topic Maps committee

The WG3's recommendations from the Amsetrdam meeting have been published. Steve Pepper reports that TMDM and CXTM are very nearly finished.

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Topic Maps Interest Group Australasia

Alexander Johannesen has established the TMIGA mailing list. "It is an non-profit and free for all interest group that probably wants to put Topic Maps on the Australian, New Zealandian and Asian maps, be it through hearing about current events and movements, or lobbying and pull / push. I hope it can turn into an interesting place for people to share their reified associations."

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XTech 2005

"XTech 2005 is the premier European conference for developers and managers working with XML and Web technologies, bringing together the worlds of web development, open source, semantic web and open standards." See the schedule.

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TMQL Tutorial (Preview)

Robert Barta has produced a preview TMQL Tutorial which "may give first insights how a developer will experience and use the language." It will be officially published later.

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New TMCL draft

Dmitry Bogachev has announced that a new TMCL draft has been posted.

First release of Versavant

Steve Newcomb has announced the first release of Versavant (homepage). "It's an implementation of the "Versavant Disclosure Discipline", which is a particular way... to disclose and implement a Topic Map Application. Basically, a TMA disclosure in Versavant is a small set of functions for each property class, and a function for each "conferral rule" (see below). Each of the functions is an instance of a "function class" that Versavant knows when and how to call."