The TAO of Topic Maps

Finding the Way in the Age of Infoglut Table of contents Abstract 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. Note The original version of this paper was published in June 2000 and thus predates the development of XTM (XML Topic Maps). Since this paper deliberately avoids syntactical issues, the fact that there are now two standard interchange syntaxes for topic maps (HyTM and XTM) is not a problem. If the concepts described in this paper turn you on, look for pointers to further reading at [Ontopia 2002]. Biography 1.

What Is RDF What Is RDF July 26, 2006 Joshua Tauberer Editor's Note: "What Is RDF" was originally written by Tim Bray in 1998 and updated by Dan Brickley in 2001. Recently it seemed like time for another update, particularly to relate RDF and the Semantic Web to the cutting edge of web development. Building the Semantic Web On the Semantic Web (SemWeb), computers do the browsing (and searching, and querying, and...) for us. There, of course, is knowledge on the current web, but it's off limits to computers. What is meant by "semantic" in Semantic Web is not that computers are going to understand the meaning of anything, but that the logical pieces of meaning can be mechanically manipulated by a machine to useful human ends. So, now imagine a new web where the real content can be manipulated by computers. There's nothing stopping anyone from writing a program now to do those sorts of things, in just the same way that nothing stopped anyone from exchanging data before we had XML. 1. Figure 1. 2. 3.

Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files by Gail HodgeApril 2000 Copyright 2000 by the Council on Library and Information Resources. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transcribed in any form without permission of the publisher. About the Author Acknowledgments Foreword Executive Summary 1. Common Characteristics of Knowledge Organization Systems Types of Knowledge Organization Systems Term Lists Classifications and Categories Relationship Lists The Origin and Use of Knowledge Organization Systems Abstracting and Indexing Services Publishers Trade, Professional, and Governmental Organizations Internal Projects Summary 2. Expanding Codes to Full Text Linking Sequence Numbers to Biosequence Databanks Linking Individual Industrial Codes to the Full Scheme Linking to Descriptive Record Linking Organism Names to Taxonomic Records Linking Chemical Names to Molecular Structures Linking Personal Names to Biographical Information 3. 4. Making the Link 5.

Taxonomy Warehouse - information organization, metadata ... SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System - home page 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] Alignment between SKOS and new ISO 25964 thesaurus standard (2012-12-13) ISO 25964-1, published in 2011, replaced the previous thesaurus standards ISO 2788 and ISO 5964 (both now withdrawn). Members of the Working Group responsible for ISO 25964 have gone on to consider the implications for SKOS users. They have developed a set of linkages between the elements of the ISO 25964 data model and the ones from SKOS, SKOS-XL, and MADS/RDF. From Chaos, Order: SKOS Recommendation Helps Organize Knowledge (2009-08-18) Call for Review: SKOS Reference Proposed Recommendation (2009-06-15) The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Proposed Recommendation of SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference.

Taxonomy Division - SLA Taxonomy - SLA's Wiki Spaces Welcome to the home page of the of the SLA Taxonomy Division. If you are looking for information about the Division and its events and services, may we direct you to our public website . In this space you will find an increasing resource of information on Controlled Vocabularies including Taxonomies, Thesauri, Ontologies, Terminologies, and other Knowledge Organization and Classification Systems. We encourage you to contribute! Members: Find Christine's Resources list New page: Taxonomy FAQs from the Mentoring Committee SLA Taxonomy Division officers and committees: see the Leadership section Image borrowed from Green Chameleon : "From the National Institute of Genetics, Japan, comes this stunning taxonomy viewer covering the so called "tree of life" - the taxonomy of known cellular organisms."

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