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The TAO of Topic Maps
Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed “the GPS of the information universe”, topic maps are also destined to provide powerful new ways of navigating large and interconnected corpora. While it is possible to represent immensely complex structures using topic maps, the basic concepts of the model — Topics, Associations, and Occurrences (TAO) — are easily grasped.
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Welcome! We invite you to share, experiment, ask questions and answer them ... anything to do with taxonomy, social networks, knowledge managment, and information architecture. Mandate of the TaxoCoP wiki: This wiki was created as a space for the Taxonomy Community to share experiences and case studies, create a document repository, collaborate on best practices, and generally engage in dialogue with colleagues on a personal and professional level to help advance the practice of creating and managing taxonomies and other related issues. Sign up to this wikispace by clicking on "Join" in the upper right corner (if you aren't already a wikispaces member), and then "join this space" from this TaxoCoP page. Read the wikispace introduction to find out how to use the various functions...
SKOS is an area of work developing specifications and standards to support the use of knowledge organization systems (KOS) such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists and taxonomies within the framework of the Semantic Web ... [ read more ] From Chaos, Order: SKOS Recommendation Helps Organize Knowledge (2009-08-18) Today W3C announces a new standard that builds a bridge between the world of knowledge organization systems - including thesauri, classifications, subject headings, taxonomies, and folksonomies - and the linked data community, bringing benefits to both. Libraries, museums, newspapers, government portals, enterprises, social networking applications, and other communities that manage large collections of books, historical artifacts, news reports, business glossaries, blog entries, and other items can now use Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) to leverage the power of linked data.
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Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond
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