Wordnet converted to a Topic Map

Aki Kivela announced that an RDF version of Wordnet has been converted to a Topic Map by Wandora. Now there is a nice data set to load into your engines. "we have converted the WordNet to a topic map. Topic map is in XTM format. Wandora project file is also available."

Wandora released

Aki Kivela proudly announces the relase of Wandora, a "knowledge extraction, management and publishing environment based on topic maps... Wandora is a Java application similar to Protege and TM4L but the way of use is more WWW browser alike. Wandora's topic map model is little limited compared to the standard but has some very interesting features such as layered topic maps and RDF import. Wandora also supports SQL database storage of topic maps."

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Guidelines for RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability

Steve Pepper has announced the first draft for review by the SWBPD Working Group and the ISO Topic Maps Working Group.

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Q Model

Lars Marius Garshol has published his paper on the Q Model, "which is a formal model which can represent both Topic Maps and RDF, and moreover create structurally near-identical representations for both."

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RDFTM: Survey of Interoperability Proposals

Steve Pepper, one of the draft's authors, announced that the RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Task Force has today posted a complete draft of its first deliverable: RDFTM: Survey of Interoperability Proposals. "The current document is intended to pave the way for a set of Guidelines on how to achieve interoperability between Topic Maps and RDF. Those Guidelines will be the next deliverable of the RDFTM task force."

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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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Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web

Thomas B. Passin has announced the upcoming release of his new book publiched by Manning. The book is about the nature of the semantic web - what the devil do people think it is supposed to be anyway? - and about the technologies that will be needed to make it happen. What kinds of technologies willbe needed, how much is in existence now, how will they work together, what are their strengths and pitfalls ...? There is an entire chapter on Topic Maps, and another on RDF, the two together standing for the domain of knowledge representation.

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Extreme Markup Languages Conference 2004

"At Extreme Markup Languages software developers, tag set designers, librarians, computer scientists, linguists, markup theorists, taxonomists, publishers, lexicographers, typographers, and other XML bricklayers and pipefitters devote the better part of a week to discussing questions like: Will RDF or Topic Maps ever take off? ... How does a Topic Map mean?" The conference will be held in Montréal, Canada.

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Topic Map Wiki

It seems that it is time for a Topic Map Wiki - a Wiki which can support RDF/TM constructs. Wikis have been amazingly successful because of the ease with which it is possible to write on a subject and then to hyperlink the subjects. However, they lack the ability to type these links. A Wiki which supported a syntax which allowed the object, predicate and subject of a triple to be represented by pages in the Wiki would be a very powerful system indeed. The proposal at Topiki seems to be built on similar ideas. I have also just seen Platypus Wiki in my travels.

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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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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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