[xtm-wg] ASIS SIG/CR | Protege-2000 | KOxTM application | TM co-ordinates

[Alexander Sigel <sigel@bonn.iz-soz.de>]

dear colleagues in topic map land,

thanks for the RDF enlightment.
this time i want to share the following TM-related bits with you:

1. topic map research: @ 11th ASIS SIC CR research workshop 2000-11-12?
2. coupling protege2000 with topic maps (question)
3. KOxTM methodology, early example of: scholarly study on context
   in art & science (in German)
4. TM co-ordinates

1. topic map research: @ 11th ASIS SIC CR research workshop 2000-11-12?
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to those interested in topic maps research from a knowledge organization
perspective: this provides an excellent opportunity to discuss and learn!
i am thinking about contributing (especially since i know most of the
people involved there), but have not decided yet.

the special interest group (SIG) on Classification Research (CR) of the
ASIS (American Society for Information Science and Technology)
  http://www.asis.org/
is going to hold its 11th research seminar on sunday 2000-11-12 in
chicago, IL, just before the ASIS annual meeting (13-16th of nov.) there,
and in my opinion, topic maps would fit into the workshop.

for the call with the topics see:
  http://uma.info-science.uiowa.edu/sigcr/call.html

regular workshop contribution deadline is over, but "idea mart" slots
are still open. deadline has been extended to 2000-08-01.

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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:47:20 -0400
From: Dagobert Soergel <ds52@umail.umd.edu>
To: asis-l@asis.org, sigcr-l@asis.org
>  The Idea Mart is a new feature of the workshop.  It will provide an
>  opportunity for informal presentation and small-group discussion of
>  emerging ideas, research topics and proposals, and prototypes of innovative
>  systems. This is a good opportunity to try out an idea and get feedbacks   
>  Doctoral students in the early phase of formulating a proposal might find  
>  this particularly helpful.
>
>  Potential idea mart presenters need to submit a 1-2 page description of
>  their topic suitable for inclusion in the pre-proceedings.
>
>  The workshop emphasizes both presentation and discussion of
>  ideas.  Participants are strongly encouraged to collaborate not only
>  through presentations and reactions to presentations but also with  
>  proactive contributions as per the workshop guidelines that will be posted
>  at the workshop web site.

2. coupling protege2000 with topic maps (question)
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today i installed and tried out the free knowledge acquisition and
modelling tool protege (well-known in the knowledge engineering community)
  http://smi.stanford.edu/projects/protege/protege-2000/
which as a java 1.2.2 application lets one define knowledge structures
with classes, slots and facets, including instances and form-based interaction.
the internal data format is CLIPS, and experimental support for XML and RDF
is there. it is extensible with plugins and widgets.

it appears to me that someone more in the topic map business and more
acquainted with java programming than me would like to check if (and how,
if suited) this tool may be extended to be fruitfully used as one component
in a topic map java implementation. 

3. KOxTM methodology, early example of: scholarly study on context
   in art & science (in German)
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i encountered an interesting example of a scholarly method of note-taking
in a highly interrelated fashion (cf. e.g. Luhmann, Arno Schmidt) which
i regard as ideally suited to be carried out nowadays with a topic map tool.

those of you with a working knowledge in german might want to have a look
at web pages resulting from a 1993 study on issues of the concept of context 
in art and science
  http://dose.servus.at/kontext/
(i have contacted the author via email, but do not have a response yet.)

apart from a complex classification
  http://dose.servus.at/kontext/kon_stu.htm
you will probably be able to tell the typed topics, typed relations,
typed occurrences and scopes from their textual form. missing are concrete
occurrences other than textual notes of cited books, expositions or
personal memory.

e.g.:
  person (curator of an exposion, lender of an art object, organizer
    of an event, participant in a project, author of a text, author
    about another person, co-author, co-worker, inviting and invited person,
    influencing and influenced person, teacher-pupil, contributor,
    acknowledged person, shown artist, propent of a school, inteviewing
    and interviewed, criticizing and criticized, announcer and announced,
    presenter, reporter, ...)

  relations: ...
    person A's view on an aspect of person B's work
    the curator of an exposition complained that an artist invited
      to take part is missing 
    person A had listened to a talk of person B

idea: case study on knowledge organization with TMs (e.g. as thesis in
  library/information science with arts background) that models this rich
  material as a topic map, extends it with other sources/experts and reports
  on methodological, content-related and technical experiences.

4. TM co-ordinates (one for jack)
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given direct-manipulative interfaces which support the hapto-motoric thinkers
and the multiplicity of viewpoints in an epistemologically open world: 
why should a topic have only one co-ordinate n-tupel? i imagine that several
user groups will intentionally place it at several places (for conceptual
differences alone), and different visualization algorithms also contribute to
that.

apart from inflating TMs, what speaks against modeling co-ordinates via a
is_located-relation between a topic and an "administrative" topic
location_in_visualization (as PSD (PSI?)) which can link to
discrete x, y, z co-ordinates, itself being "administrative" topics?

so much
alex
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Alexander Sigel, M.A. sigel@bonn.iz-soz.de
Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften
Lennéstr. 30, D-53113 Bonn, Germany
+49 228 2281 170 tel, +49 228 2281 120 fax
Homepage: http://index.bonn.iz-soz.de/~sigel/

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