A new release of the TM4L Editor

Darina Dicheva announced that a new version of TM4L is available.

TM4L is an e-learning environment providing authoring and browsing support for creating ontology-based learning content and/or structuring digital repositories. TM4L utilizes topic map-based overlay structures that encode domain knowledge and connect it to (learning) resources, which are considered relevant to a specific domain. Its interface is translated into 9 languages including Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, Danish, Bulgarian, and Nepali.

The features added recently to TM4L include:
- topic map querying capabilities
- visual topic maps editing
- conversion between topic maps and RDF data
- plug-in architecture enabling users to add new features

Balisage: The Markup Conference

Jim Mason tells us to mark our calendars:

Balisage: The Markup Conference
August 12 - 15, 2008
(workshop: August 11, 2008)

Balisage is designed to meet the needs of markup theoreticians and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of the field. It's all about the markup: how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space) - in short, changing the world and the web through the power of marked-up information.