Is there any reason to keep this group active on Yahoo any more? There are over 2600 messages, but the last one was posted 9/10/2001. I will plan to delete...
Several people have asked me if they have been added to the OASIS list from the Yahoo groups list. This message is a test to make sure this did, in fact,...
We will be meeting this week in Montreal in conjunction with the Extreme Markup conference. On Thursday evening from 6-8 there will be an organizational...
Hi all, please excuse cross-postings of this. I have been on the lists for a while, but I never introduced myself: my name is Martin Lacher, I am with the ...
Before leaving for the weekend, I thought I'd post a very preliminary attempt at an XML interchange syntax for CGs, called XML Conceptual Graphs (XCG). During...
I have now put together new proposals for the language.xtm and country.xtm PSI sets, and intend to submit these to TopicMaps.Org for consideration in...
This September, KnowledgeTechnologies.net will be holding a 1 day summit in the Washington DC Area. We will focus on "Standards for Knowledge" What Standards...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of any books (remember those?) that covered topic maps in reasonable depth. I can find nothing at any of the usual online...
Hello again, while I was going through the spec examples in research for my previous post, I noticed a mishap in paras F.6.3 and F.6.4: <association id="a34"> ...
Hi, I've just completed and made available a tab-widget plug-in for Protégé which enables the use of Protégé[1] as a topic map editing tool. The plug-in's...
If all is working right, you should get this message twice. Please advise if you don't. In preparation for our move to OASIS, new mailing lists have been set...
Hello Topic-Map enthusiasts, Hopefully someone in this group may help me with a problem. First I'd like to describe my point of view according published ...
... The problem is about representing intensional properties of concepts (ie topics); in other words, of constraining characteristics of topics, specifically,...
¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤ Paul Stephen Prueitt wrote (PSP): PSP: This is a long "entangled bead" -- for explanation see: PSP:...
The TM4J Project team are pleased to announce the release of a version 0.5.0 of TM4J. TM4J is an open source (Apache license) topic map engine written in Java ...
This is a long "entangled bead" for explanation see: http://www.ontologystream.com/area1/primarybeads/bead1.htm ** Protege (out of Stanford) is still the best...
Murray Altheim and I debated at length on this list how to interpret relative URI references and the URIs of elements in the presence of xml:base attributes. I...
Hello, Just a quick note before anyone gets too excited (pro or con) about adopting "official" positions at the topic map meeting after the Extreme Markup...
I am not sure which of the forums this will be posted to. I have left the Topic Maps forum because there is no response to the issues that I have very ...
Hi, I am an indexer and librarian, fairly new to the concept of topic maps. I have three queries. Firstly, I have read the TAO of Topic Maps at the Ontopia...
Dear XTM-WG, I want to support Ivan's and Holger's point of view. Especially if you want to use scopes for defining user access levels it would be much easier...
Dear Topic Map People I have some questions regarding the topic map standards and the data model. These questions are rather elementary so, rather than...
Some months ago - on April 4 to be precise for those who would like to retrieve it ... and BTW when will we have a topic map for those archives? - I started a...
I wanted to drop everyone a note on the status of the TopicMaps.Org move to becoming an OASIS member section. The member section is set up. OASIS staff...
Hi ivan and others, I am facing a problem of how to make a topicmap out of a large chunk of data and documents available to me. As a developer I dont know...
The 0.72 release of SemanText has just been posted at www.semantext.com. Among the new features are: * Context-based harvesting - This allows topics and...
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Hi, ... XTM is the exchange format for Topic Maps between various TM applications. It does not represent the internal datastructure of a TM. The standard ...