[xtm-wg] Implementers Guide to Developing Topic Maps

[Steve Pepper <pepper@ontopia.net>]

For those that are attending the Knowledge Technologies 2001
conference in Austin, Texas, I am attaching a detailed outline
of the tutorial Kal Ahmed and I will be holding on the Sunday.
We would love to see readers of this mailing list there!

For more details of the conference, see

    http://www.knowledgetechnologies.org/


Best regards,

Steve
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Steve Pepper, Chief Technology Officer <pepper@ontopia.net>
Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3  Editor, XTM (XML Topic Maps)
Ontopia AS, Maridalsveien 99B, N-0461 Oslo, Norway.
http://www.ontopia.net/  phone: +47-22805465  GSM: +47-90827246


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An Implementers Guide to Developing Topic Maps
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A one-day tutorial to be held in Austin, Texas on Sunday March 4

INSTRUCTORS:
    Kal Ahmed, Principal Consultant, Ontopia
    Steve Pepper, Founder & CTO, Ontopia; Editor XTM

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This tutorial concentrates on the practical issues in developing
topic maps. The focus is on technical solutions to the problems
of topic map creation, maintenance and connecting resources to
topic maps.

ABSTRACT:

Topic maps provide a powerful, new way to organise and navigate
large quantities of information. The model is simple and
flexible, enabling a wide range of potential applications. This
tutorial is designed to take attendees from just knowing about
topic maps to being able to design and develop new topic maps
and topic map applications. Material is presented in tutorial
form, but code samples and examples will be provided. Tools used
during the tutorial will predominately be open source / freely
available. The attendees will be assumed to be familiar with
basic topic map concepts. Examples will be presented in Java,
Python and XSLT - knowledge of one or more of these languages
would be an advantage, but is not necessary.

TUTORIAL OUTLINE:

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0) Up to speed on XTM

Attendees are assumed to be familiar with basic topic map
concepts. This half-hour introductory session merely
recapitulates the basic topic map concepts in the light of the
newly published XTM 1.0 Specification.


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1) Developing a topic map ontology

This module introduces the basic concepts of ontology design and
implementation. The focus is on using data analysis to determine
the collection of information objects and their
inter-relationships that exist in the data to be topic mapped.
Both metadata and content analysis techniques will be
considered. This module will cover issues such as:

- Identifying types of objects and associations to create a
   topic map ontology.
- Differentiating between topics and occurrences of topics.
- Encoding a topic map ontology as topic map template
   definitions.
- Enabling sharing and merging of topic maps by the definition
   and use of Published Subject Indicators.


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2) Generating topic maps

To develop large topic maps, it is often necessary to process a
large number of information resources to extract topics,
associations and occurrences. This module examines ways of
processing both structured and unstructured information for
automatic topic map generation. Topics covered include:

- Converting metadata to topic maps.
- Simple NLP-based information extraction.
- Connecting topics to resources by pointer and by query.

Case-studies and source code are provided for the generation of
topic maps from RDF; web-page meta-data; MP3 files and MS Word
documents.


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3) Hand-crafting topic maps

This module introduces tips and techniques for creating a topic
map by hand or for enriching an automatically generated topic
map by hand. We introduce the Linear Topic Map (LTM) notation,
a convenient text format for specifying topic maps by hand and
work through a small sample topic map, comparing LTM and XTM
syntax. This module also describes the tools and techniques for
dividing the creation of a large topic map amongst many authors.

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