RE: [xtm-wg] books?

["Kal Ahmed" <kal@techquila.com>]

>
> [Danny Ayers]
>
> >
> > >> 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 booksellers.
> > >>
> > >
> > >There's the new Wrox book - you have some involvement in it!-
> Professional
> > >XML Meta Data, that has some material.  I wouldn't say it's really
> > >in depth.
> > >but it's a start.
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >
> > >Tom P
> >
> > Great! - that'll save a few quid. I've not actually seen any
> parts of the
> > book I wasn't involved with - the complementary copies went to
> a friend's
> in
> > the uk, as I was in the process of moving to Italy.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Danny.
> >
> > PS. Is it any good?
> >
>
> Actually, it is pretty good.  There's a chapter on Topic Maps and XTM, and
> another chapter that talks about automatic Topic Map construction, RDF
> compared with Topic Maps, and using both RDF and TM in the same document.
> This second chapter is rather cursory about these subjects, but
> that's to be
> expected at this stage of the game.  These chapters were written by Kal,
> weren't they?
>

Glad you like it! :-)

The automatic generation stuff and the comparison of XML metadata standards
(RDF, topic maps, RDDL etc) was my constribution. The (interesting) text on
combining topic maps and RDF in a single file was from another contributor.

Cheers

Kal


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