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Lars Marius Garshol has produced a Topic Map Tools topic map which no doubt accurately and completely covers the field :).If you don't find what you are after here then I suggest checking it out.

Topic Maps Tools is a frequently-updated and hopefully complete index of tools and software supporting Topic Maps, with much metadata about the tools to make them easier to locate. (Built, of course, with Topic Maps.)

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Marcel Hoyer announced the creation of the sharptm project at Google Code.

To introduce the Topic Maps technology to the .NET world, the goal of this project is a small and extensible Topic Maps engine based on the TMAPI.Net project that implements the TMAPI 2.0 interfaces and unit test.Read more

Some recent studies on information retrieval and information seeking have examined the utility of serendipitous discovery. This research argues that serendipitous discovery has a positive impact on information retrieval and can happen most frequently in semantic web built on the framework of topic maps.Read more

Most clustering methods for information retrieval application do not work efficiently when dealing with complicated data. In this paper, we compare the performance of the Topic Maps-based method with the Clustering-based method. An experimental test was carried out using 20 volunteer to evaluate and compare the performance of the Topic Maps-based Information Retrieval system and Clustering-based Information Retrieval system in security domain.Read more

Connecting Topincs - Using transclusion to connect proxy spacesRead more

A number of proposals have been made for Topic Maps/OWL interoperability, but this is really looking for interoperability on the wrong level. This paper instead looks at interoperability between OWL and TMCL, and shows how it is possible to convert OWL ontologies into TMCL schemas and vice versa, once a mapping for the vocabulary is available.

Due to the increasing amount and complexity of digital resources, there are several critical issues that arise in digital environments such as ill-structured and poor management of digital information. Different information organization approaches have been used to address these issues. In particular, Semantic Web has been explored for 10 years; however there are not many practical applications. This is in part due to the fact that much attention has been given to the creation rather than the migration of existing data.Read more

This paper introduces a new generation of the common Topic Maps API (TMAPI). It has evolved from version 1.0 and is now based on the meanwhile finalized Topic Maps Data Model (TMDM). A comprehensive developer experience allowed the design of a user-friendly API for Topic Maps application development independently of a specific Topic Maps processor.Read more

This paper introduces a new, event-based API to create topic maps. It is independent of particular Topic Maps processors and enables developers to convert any resource into a Topic Maps representation with minimal effort. The API is somewhat aligned to the "push-model" of the familiar Simple API for XML (SAX) and is therefore easy to learn. It has been implemented for different programming languages and supplements APIs like the object-orientated Topic Maps API (TMAPI).