Gene Ontology Topic Map

The Wandora project have converted the Gene Ontology (public domain) into a Topic Map.

Ontopia releases Ontopoly topic map editor with OKS 3.0

"OSLO, NORWAY, 19 JANUARY 2006: Ontopoly, the new web-based tool for
creating, populating and managing corporate ontologies, is now
available as part of the Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS) 3.0 release and the OKS
Samplers free download. This latest addition to the OKS significantly lowers
the bar for developing and maintaining ontologies, even for first-time users."

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topicmaps
ontopoly
ontopia
oks

O4E (Ontologies for Education) Portal

The O4E portal is a collaborative project between Winston-Salem State
University, University of Pittsburgh and Saint-Petersburg State
Polytechnic University. The main goal of the project is to collect and
disseminate web resources in the field of application of ontologies and
relevant technologies for the modern educational perspectives.

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topicmaps
portal
o4e
ontology

Australasian Ontology Workshop

Anne Cregan has announced that the deadline for the Australasian Ontology Workshop has been extended until Sept 9. The worksphop is being help in Sydney, Australia in December. "In recent years there has been a worldwide increase in the use of ontologies, both in industry and in research laboratories. There is a growing community of researchers in Australia and New Zealand, working on various aspects of ontologies. The primary aim of this workshop is to bring together ontology researchers in the region."

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topicmaps
conference
sydney

Slides from Montreal

Lars Marius Garshol has posted some slides from the Montreal meeting.

• Summary of the RM Workshop


• Presentation of LMG's proposed model


• The OMG Ontology SIG collaboration


• My presentation from the RM panel


• Some more on the RM panel

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tmrm

Nary relations on the semantic web

New W3C Working draft: Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web: Use With Individuals. "In Semantic Web languages, such as RDF and OWL, a property is a binary relation; that is, it links two individuals or an individual and a value. How do we represent relations among more than two individuals? How do we represent properties of a relation, such as our certainty about it, severity or strength of a relation, relevance of a relation, and so on? The document presents ontology patterns for representing n-ary relations and discusses what users must consider when choosing these patterns." Bernard Vatant has prepared a draft annex dealing with representation of n-ary relations in Topic Maps.

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topicmaps

Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group

New W3C working group Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment "is focused on providing consensus-based guidance - including practical deployment recommendations, engineering guidelines, ontology / vocabulary development practices, educational material and effective demonstrations, designed to facilitate Semantic Web deployment." Bernard Vatant is a registered as a participating member of this WG.

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topicmaps
semweb
w3c

OmniPaper Project

The OmniPaper Prototype has been completed. "It integrates SOAP communication, RDF metadata encoding, automatic keyword extraction through data mining and ontology-based search using Topic Maps."

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topicmaps
omnipaper

TopicMapCentral: A site for TM Patterns

"The goal of this site is to provide a place for collaborative development of topic map patterns and ontologies. It includes a Wiki for the discussion both of the proces of pattern creation and for patterns themselves."

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topicmaps
patterns

xSiteable 0.8 released

A new version xSiteable has been released. "The xSiteable project has reached a rather complex release with a number of new and exciting features: Ontology, Taxonomy, Metadata, Blogging and Wireframe".

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topicmaps
xsiteable

Beer TM

Demonstration Topic Maps aren't always about Opera. BeerTM "is a collaborative project to create a topic map about beer. The idea is to first create an ontology for describing beer, and then allow people to provide their own content using that ontology. The topic maps provided by different people can then be merged together to yield larger data sets." Geir Ove Grønmo has chipped in with his own impressive contribution.

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beer