Swoogle Semantic Web Search Engine. Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! Making sense of it all Abstract To be faced with a document collection and not to be able to find the information you know exists somewhere within it is a problem as old as the existence of document collections. Information Architecture is the discipline dealing with the modern version of this problem: how to organize web sites so that users actually can find what they are looking for. Information architects have so far applied known and well-tried tools from library science to solve this problem, and now topic maps are sailing up as another potential tool for information architects.
The paper argues that topic maps go beyond the traditional solutions in the sense that it provides a framework within which they can be represented as they are, but also extended in ways which significantly improve information retrieval. Table of contents 1. The task of an information architect is to create web sites where users can actually find the information they are looking for. 2. 2.1. Metadata 2.2. Title. The Protégé Ontology Editor and Knowledge Acquisition System. Reference: Knowledge Management: Knowledge Representation: Topic Maps: Software and Tools. Ontopia home page. TopicMaps.org - Topic Maps.