TMPlusPlus Beta

Inge Henriksen announced the release of his open source C++ Topic Maps engine. It has bindings for lots of scripting languages:

"My first main goal with this new engine was to enable C++ programmers (the same programming language in which TM++ is written) to be able to use topic maps in their programs. The second goal was to make a really fast topic maps engine without having to fall back on caching and the likes. The engine is based around TMDM 1.0, and you can also work with XTM 1.0 and XTM 2.0 files."

New ISO Drafts

A number of drafts were recently published.

Dublin Core in Topic Maps
http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0884.htm

A GTM level 1 proposal
http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0882.pdf
http://www.garshol.priv.no/blog/113.html

ISO 13250-1: Topic Maps -- Overview and Basic Concepts
http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0877.zip

TMDM -> TMRM mapping
http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0879.pdf

CTM (Compact syntax for Topic Maps)
http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0880.htm

TMQL
http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0887.pdf

TMDM and XTM2.0 finalized

Lars Marius Garshol announces the (almost) fruition of 5 to 6 years of work. Well done!

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Topincs - Topic Maps authoring and storing

Robert Cerny announced the release of Topincs, a Topic Map authoring tool. "It's biggest asset is, that a group of people can collaboratively create a Topic Map over a set of computers that are able to communicate over HTTP, one of them acting as a server. It makes excessive use of technologies, now popular under the buzzword AJAX. The "web page" is loaded only once, all other communication with the server is invisible. It uses a database with a schema according to the Topic Maps Data Model for storage and uses a format, i call JTM for (JSON Topic Maps), which is perfect in a web browser environment and basically just an object notation of the TMDM. For more on JSON, the fat-free alternative to XML, visit json.org. Topincs uses the HTTP protocol how it was originally intended in a RESTful way, thus taking advantage of the free goodies, authorization/authentication, caching and the optional security."

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rest
apache
json
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ajax
php
mysql

XTM is not Topic Maps

Lars Marius Garshol makes his case that XTM is not Topic Maps, ie. the syntax is not the same as the data model. This will be a familiar argument to those who read the TM mailing lists.

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xtm

New TMDM draft

A new TMDM draft is ready for preview for the Mortréal meeting.

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tmdm

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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tmdm
cxtm

TMDM/XTM 1.1 review

Lars Marius Garshol has posted the Norwegian Users' Group review of TMDM and XTM. It provides a good overview of the Topic Map standards.

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tmdm
xtm

Final Committee Drafts of TMDM and XTM 1.1

ISO has just published Final Committee Drafts of TMDM and XTM 1.1.

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topicmaps
xtm
tmdm

TMDM/XTM meeting

The notes from the TMDM/XTM meeting in DC have now been posted.

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topicmaps
tmdm
xtm

New TMDM Draft

The SAM is now called "ISO 13250-2: Topic Maps - Data Model" (TMDM). Lars Marius Garshol has announced the release of an updated draft (PDF). The first committe draft was published on 11 Nov 2003.

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topicmaps
tmdm

New SAM Draft

Lars Marius Garshol has announced that a "near-final text" has been published at isotopicmaps.org.

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tmdm

Draft SAM available

Lars Marius Garshol has announced the availability of the new SAM draft.

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topicmaps
tmdm

SAM Homepage

ISO has now published a homepage for the Standard Application Model for Topic Maps (SAM). SAM is a formal data model which will be used as a basis for Topic Map syntaxes, query languages and schema languages.

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tmdm