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

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

[Lars Marius Garshol]
>
> This really reflects how the topic map came into being. It is
> generated automatically from an XML document that quite simply doesn't
> have any more information. If I could add platform information it
> would get a little better, but I keep putting that off...
>
> | Anyone?
>
> Well, Tom, I'm sure you have some subject _you're_ interested in, that
> you could topic map? :-)
>

I'm thinking about making a topic map for the book I'm writing, but the
writing takes so much time!
Otherwise I'm interested in displaying topic maps as mind maps or the other
way around, so I keep looking for good mind maps to start from.

As you know very well, hand authoring a complex map is hard, and there isn't
much in the way of tools to help so far (yes, I know, k42 and Nexist, but
they aren't really there yet for authoring.  Kal's Protege plugin looks
good - now that it can scope occurrences, I will revisit it).  I've actually
been writing some tools in javascript that run in a browser.  So  far, I can
add topics and topic types, names, scopes, and occurrences, and add roles
and roleplayers to associations - everything selected by pick lists or
type-in boxes.  Only one name to a topic so far, though (it's an interface
issue - what to display if there are more than one).

Cheers,

Tom P