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Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But today, the shift from the physical to the digital is ripping, burning, and mixing our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place – the physical world demanded it – but now everything has its places: multiple categories, multiple shelves. Suddenly, everything is miscellaneous.Read more

This closing keynote weaves together the many threads of Topic Maps 2008. It will show how Topic Maps achieves the dream of Vannevar Bush in ways that today’s Web does not, how it not only supports but actually thrives on the miscellaneous, and how the vision of subject-centric computing promises to turn information and knowledge management inside out – and leave it like that.

This presentation demonstrates how to build enterprise solutions based on the integration of a portal infrastructure, a faceted search engine and topic maps.Read more

Modern web sites have demonstrated the utility of keyword based tags as very lightweight indicators of a particular subject to human viewers, e.g. to indicate what a video posted on youtube.com is about, seen from the perspecive of the poster. In addition, algoritms can use identical tags within the same address space as string based identifiers to manage sets of objects or data presumably about the same indicated subject, e.g. “person”.Read more

Visions for a Topic Mapped Library

I was issued a challenge the other day: If you were given the power and the resources to shape and run a national library today, what would you do differently with Topic Maps?Read more

The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) is a digital library project at Victoria University of Wellington. The Centre has been digitising New Zealand books since early 2002, and publishing them on its website. Since April 2005, the structure of the website has been based on Topic Maps.Read more

Librarians have a reputation for living in a world of their own and they certainly have their own long-established traditions. Their acronyms may be longer than ours, but the problems they have been wrestling with for centuries are exactly the ones we all face in today’s Age of Infoglut: how to organize information and knowledge so that it can be easily found and reused. Today’s information owners have a lot to learn from librarians.Read more

This session forms part of the track on Semantic Interoperability in eGovernment.Read more

The term eGovernment refers to government’s use of information technology to exchange information and services with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government. This requires interoperability at the technical, semantic and organization level.Read more

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. Named for the naturalist Charles Darwin, DITA uses the principles of specialization and inheritance in order to build content reuse into the authoring process.Read more