[xtm-wg] _Topic Maps for Navigating E-Journals_

[gerrymck@iastate.edu]

              _Topic Maps for Navigating E-Journals_

    With the association of Topic Maps with XML and the planned 
migration to the use of XML by some e-publishers, it seems logical to 
me that Topic Maps are / will be the Next Big Thing for access and 
navigation within/between/among electronic journals. I have compiled
a  registry of innovative e-journal features, functionalities, and 
content called EJI(sm) [Pronounced E- J - I or "Edgy" [:->]
[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm ] and would like 
to any e-journals that are using Topic Maps [or other Conceptual 
Navigation technologies]

    While the paint has only recent dried on the Topic Map standard 
and efforts for expressing Topic Maps in XML are still underway, I'd 
be very interested in learning about Any and All efforts, plans, 
and/or thoughts of using Topic Maps  to navigate e-journals.

[The use of Topic Maps in other digital environments (e.g., with 
controlled vocabularies) would also be of interest]

   As Always, Any and All contributions, suggestions, comments, 
queries, pardons, Cosmic Insights, etc. etc. etc. are Most Welcome!

[Thanks Alex Sigel ( Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften, Bonn, 
Germany) for informing me about Topic Maps and his work in this and 
related areas [  http://index.bonn.iz-soz.de/~sigel/]]

   Regards,

/Gerry McKiernan
Topical Librarian 
Iowa State University Ames
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck@iastate.edu 

        "The Best Way To Predict the Future is to Invent It" 
                                                 Alan Kay




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