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NetworkedPlanet now have a new "NetworkedPlanet Web 3" blog discussing their take on Web 3 and Topic Maps. The first few posts have been based on the concept of a Subject Identity Resolution Service and the subsequent subj3ct.com website.

Topic Maps has been successful in delivering value in the context of content management, intranets and web publishing. In these contexts it has provided value in terms of improved navigation and findability of content. However, the scope of these projects has been limited, and it could be argued that Topic Maps has simply created better managed, and more useful silos of content. This talk presents a vision and concept for enabling Topic Maps in a global context.Read more

Tying everything together at UiB

The restructuring of the University of Bergen web site required good arguments for bringing everything together in a single content management system, with a uniform graphical profile and information architecture.Read more

This tutorial provides a solid introduction to Topic Maps for anyone who is a newcomer to the subject. It covers what topic maps are and what kinds of problems they can solve. The basic Topic Maps constructs (topics, associations and occurrences) are explained using the simple yet powerful TAO Model. More advanced topics, such as scope and identity, are also covered. The tutorial concludes with a review of real world Topic Maps applications.

“subjectlayer.com is a free public community driven forum for the topic maps community.” It covers a wide range of technologies. Seems pretty quiet but may be a place to capture users unfamiliar with the mailing lists.

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The purpose of this application is mainly to show Topic Maps case examples for sales promotion of Topic Maps. 67 presentations are included in this topic map at the moment. Those were presented at Topic Maps 2007 in Oslo, TMRA 2007 in Leipzig and AToMS 2007 in Kyoto. More presentations and case examples will be added in the near future.

Interview of Infolooms's Michel Biezunski on the Story of Topic Maps at the New York City Semantic Web Meetup on November 20, 2008.

Topic Maps is an international standard technology for describing knowledge structures and using them to improve the findability of information. It is based on a formal model that subsumes those of traditional finding aids such as indexes, glossaries, and thesauri, and extends them to cater for the additional complexities of digital information.Read more

Lars Marius Garshol has published a topic map tools topic map. You can slice and dice by vendor, platform, technology and programming language.