Re: [topicmaps-comment] [sc34wg3] PMTM4 and XTM Layer 1.0

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@home.com>]

[David Dodds]

> I second the sentiment that Thomas expresses about desiring a collection
or
> repository of topic maps from which we could test of programs and ideas.
>
> I ask the members to have a look at a topic map, which I used in the WROX
> book XML Meta Data, Ch 11. It is available at
> ftp://ftp.wrox.com/professional/4516.zip
> once unzipped open ch 11 and look at the data set called circuittm.xml.
>
> That is a topic map which would be constructed using the tool I describe
in
> the book. What I would appreciate from the readers is a constructive
> critique of that topic map. One of the things I would like to do in my
work
> is to have an SVG based diagram with embedded RDF and Topic Map meta data.
> Topic maps which could be used to "understand" the picture (its contents,
in
> the ch 11 case it was an electronic circuit schematic) could be generated
> from the SVG "diagram"/picture. At some point in time Iwould also like to
> explore the opposite direction and that is to create an SVG dagram from a
> topic map. (It would have to be pretty "rich", possibly like the "as much
> graph as hierarchy" stated by Thomas.
>
> Several people have asked for me to publish the "missing bits" from the
> book. I have contacted WROX and they have said that's ok and so I am in
the
> process of making ready those chapter/parts on a website. I will
> post the links as they become available. Thankyou for the interest.
>

David, this is good news,  Do you see the forthcoming site as one of the
topic map repositories, I mean beyond the expanded book material?

Cheers,

Tom P