Usecase survey - a better grouping
Usecases submitted to the XTM-UCS survey, plus a few from other sources,
grouped hopefully a bit better. The main change is a more even distribution
between categories, and the introduction of an explicit "knowledge representation"
category.
The essence of the whole picture is captured for me by a phrase from
one of Alexander Sigel's examples: Interrelating different conceptual
schemata to organize knowledge for user-oriented tasks.
This is my starting point for the more detailed work I hope to do next.
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1. Navigating complex content: XTM supports supplementary structure and
information providing specific support for applications providing navigation/access
functionality
1a: Standoff markup and metadata attribution
Inside SVG XML structures use XTM to house metadata
Inside XML data structures use XTM house metadata insurance vertical
Management of diverse content delivery in web applications
Indexing electronic media
1b: Navigation structures
Defining content hyperlinking
Portal query of structured knowledge resources
Portal link navigation modeling
Navigation of complex textual traditions (multiple languages)
navigating geospatial metadata, integration with existing/developing
standards
Topic Maps for navigating B2B web sites
Business portal navigation tool
Navigation of large documentation sets with dynamic selection criteria
(scopes), frequent addition/deletion of occurrences, and both hiearchical/ordered
and non-ordered associations
Providing integrated access to large documentation sets and other resources,
through the medium of designed job-aids and reference material with precise/detailed
effectivity and relevance (designed navigation, respecting highly structured
scoping).
Interrelating different conceptual schemata to organize knowledge for
user-oriented tasks, e.g. in the domain of cultural heritage
2. Topical organization: XTM supports supplementary structure and information
encoding ontologies, taxonomies, indexes etc.
Mapping single or merging multiple ontologies in topic maps
Creating cooperative annotated bibliographies and how to merge these
when appropriate
LEXICAL systems (cf UMLS, wordnet)
Help, glossary maps
Multiple views into social science resource sets
Multiple-view organization of didactic material (e.g. in information
science, see e.g. the site http://www.k-n-o-r-z.de/search/themap.asp)
Multiple-view organization of long-term personal or group workspaces
(e.g. scholarly note-taking, archives of artists etc.)
3. Knowledge modelling: XTM supports supplementary structure and information
providing specific support for knowledge management
Knowledge base for agent-aided site navigation
Mechanism to "allow discovery" (on the fly merging of topic maps) of
related topics
Multiple-view organization of internetworked resources in scientific
documentation (here: in the social sciences) (interlinking bibliographic,
project, fact databases, sdi services, theme foci, clearinghouse, all already
indexed with in-house classification & thesaurus) see e.g. http://www.bonn.iz-soz.de/index-e.htm
Topic map structures implementing the linkages and metadata required
to support various established methods of knowledge representation, data
mining etc
4. XTM can "Interchangeably represent" (words from 13250) the structure
& information in (1) (2) and (3).
Use XTM as a linguafranca to exchange knowledge between knowledge systems
Serialized representation of complex program structures (with documentation)
including persistence of state (or states)
Interchange between Knowledge Management Systems
Knowledge interchange for recommender systems
One of several formats for an import/export standard for tools for
organizing thoughts (Tools for Thinking, Knowledge Management, Mobile Computing,
Enterprise Application Integration, Modeling Languages)
Personal exchangeable maps
General application area pointers
economic / financial database
encyclopedia publishing
Topic Maps in constructivist learning
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