TMAPIX 0.1 released

Lars Heuer announces the release of some Java libs to make working with TMAPI more comfortable. "TMAPIX contains packages to build and filter Topic Maps constructs; additionally several utility classes are provided."

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New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre has relaunched its website based on TM4J. Conal Tuohy reports that "The topic map presently contains 46807 topics, 192492 associations, and 43942 occurrences; roughly 150Mb of XTM. We are using tm4j's "in-memory" back-end, running on Java 1.4.1 on Windows 2000. The topic map consumes approximately 1.3GB of RAM."

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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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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SNAPI

The Semantic Network API (SNAPI) project was mentioned on the topicmapmail mailing list. The SourceForge admins currently are Graham Moore and Thomas Schwotzer. SNAPI is a "Remote API for Knowledge Access and Update. A C# and Java API designed to provide remote access to semantic web knowledge stores such as RDF and Topic Maps."

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Panckoucke Released

The TM4J Project has announced the initial release of which "is a java library to support the developement of topic map presentation and navigation tools. Panckoucke is a subproject of tm4j and relies on it as its underlying topicmap engine. It integrates tmharvest, another subproject of tm4j, to support the automated creation of topic maps from structured data. Panckoucke is free and open-source (under the Apache Software Foundation license).

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TMNav 0.2.5 Released

Christoph Fröhlich and Niko Schmuck "are glad to announce the release of TMNav 0.2.5. TMNav is a graphical topic map browser (using Java Swing) written with the help of the TM4J topic map library to allow a user to easily navigate through her own topic maps". The new version features the following:

• improved UI


• basic merge support


• topic maps written in LTM can be read in


• support of all current tm4j providers (like hibernate backend)


• new TreeRender View to ease navigation at "hot spots"

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NLP Project

Dan Corwin is seeking support from the XTM, Java and NLP interest groups for MODELER, a toolkit for encoding NLP lexicons under XTM 1.0. "NLP and XTM complement each other nicely, but they need some willing firms and individuals to follow suit. I'd welcome your support."

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New TM4J release supports XTM 1.0

A new release of TM4J, the open-source topic map engine written in Java, is now available from the Techquila.com website (www.techquila.com/tm4j.html).

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