XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web
by Jack Park, Sam Hunting
The explosive growth of the World Wide Web is fueling the need for a new generation of technologies for managing information flow, data, and knowledge. This developer's overview and how-to book provides a complete introduction and application guide to the world of topic maps, a powerful new means of navigating the World Wide Web's vast sea of information.
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The explosive growth of the World Wide Web is fueling the need for a new generation of technologies for managing information flow, data, and knowledge. This developer's overview and how-to book provides a complete introduction and application guide to the world of topic maps, a powerful new means of navigating the World Wide Web's vast sea of information.
With contributed chapters written by today's leading topic map experts, XML Topic Maps is designed to be a "living document" for managing information across the Web's interconnected resources. The book begins with a broad introduction and a tutorial on topic maps and XTM technology. The focus then shifts to strategies for creating and deploying the technology. Throughout, the latest theoretical perspectives are offered, alongside discussions of the challenges developers will face as the Web continues to evolve. Looking forward, the book's concluding chapters provide a road map to the future of topic map technology and the Semantic Web in general.
Specific subjects explored in detail include:
- Topic mapping and the XTM specification
- Using XML Topic Maps to build knowledge repositories
- Knowledge Representation, ontological engineering, and topic maps
- Transforming an XTM document into a Web page
- Creating enterprise Web sites with topic maps and XSLT
- Open source topic map software
- XTM, RDF, and topic maps
- Semantic networks and knowledge organization
- Using topic maps in education
- Topic maps, pedagogy, and future perspectives
Featuring the latest perspectives from today's leading topic map experts, XML Topic Maps provides the tools, techniques, and resources necessary to plot the changing course of information management across the World Wide Web.
0201749602B08282002
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780201749601
- Publisher:
- Addison-Wesley
- Publication date:
- 07/16/2002
- Edition description:
- New Edition
- Pages:
- 605
- Product dimensions:
- 7.24(w) x 9.05(h) x 1.41(d)
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Contributors | ||
| Ch. 1 | Let There Be Light | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Introduction to the Topic Maps Paradigm | 17 |
| Ch. 3 | A Perspective on the Quest for Global Knowledge Interchange | 31 |
| Ch. 4 | The Rise and Rise of Topic Maps | 51 |
| Ch. 5 | Topic Maps from Representation to Identity: Conversation, Names, and Published Subject Indicators | 67 |
| Ch. 6 | How to Start Topic Mapping Right Away with the XTM Specification | 81 |
| Ch. 7 | Knowledge Representation, Ontological Engineering, and Topic Maps | 103 |
| Ch. 8 | Topic Maps in the Life Sciences | 149 |
| Ch. 9 | Creating and Maintaining Enterprise Web Sites with Topic Maps and XSLT | 167 |
| Ch. 10 | Open Source Topic Map Software | 199 |
| Seman Text | 204 | |
| XTM Programming with TM4J | 211 | |
| Nexist Topic Map Testbed | 244 | |
| GooseWorks Toolkit | 260 | |
| Ch. 11 | Topic Map Visualization | 267 |
| Ch. 12 | Topic Maps and RDF | 283 |
| Ch. 13 | Topic Maps and Semantic Networks | 327 |
| Ch. 14 | Topic Map Fundamentals for Knowledge Representation | 357 |
| Ch. 15 | Topic Maps in Knowledge Organization | 383 |
| Ch. 16 | Prediction: A Profound Paradigm Shift | 477 |
| Ch. 17 | Topic Maps, the Semantic Web, and Education | 507 |
| Glossary | 531 | |
| App. A | Tomatoes Topic Map | 543 |
| App. B | Topic Map for Chapter 9 | 547 |
| App. C | XSLT Style Sheet for Chapter 9 | 563 |
| App. D | Genealogical Topic Map | 569 |
| Index | 585 |
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