RE: [topicmaps-comment] skills to create topic maps

[Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>]

[jean delahousse]
> Professional content editors have hundreds years of experience on
> content organisation for books, memento, encyclopedia, thesaurus so
> they can tell the result they want (at least as good as what they had

> in the paper publication.

Like Moliere's bourgeois gentilhomme, who remarked that "for more than
40 years I have been speaking prose without knowing it," these content
professionals have been creating topic maps without knowing it. I think
that one of the key skills in topic map creation is the ability to make
this tacit knowledge explicit. (This is very similar to some approaches
to content analysis and DTD development -- approaches that rely on
subject matter expertise.)

S.



> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Tony.Coates@reuters.com [mailto:Tony.Coates@reuters.com]
> Envoyé : mercredi 28 novembre 2001 13:19
> À : webindexing@optusnet.com.au
> Cc : topicmaps-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
> Objet : Re: [topicmaps-comment] skills to create topic maps
> 
> 
> 
> On 28/11/2001 07:49:45 Jon Jermey & Glenda Browne wrote:
> 
> >What skills are needed/held by people creating topic maps. I
> understand the
> >linguistic/conceptual side of it, but I am wondering about the
> technical
> >creation. Eg, do you need XML, programming skills or whatever?
> 
> I'll add to what the other respondents have written by saying that in
> the
> long term, knowing how to work with XML directly should not be a
> requirement.  However, given the immature state of topic map tools
> (which is
> complicated by the lack of an agreed processing model), I would not
> expect
> anyone to make sufficient progress without a knowledge of XML.
> 
> To be more concrete, you might be able to settle on one of the
> available
> topic map editors, and just edit away happily without understanding
> XML.
> However, at some stage you will want to do something with that topic
> map,
> and that is the stage where you might have to look at the XML and
> make some
> sense of it.  If you stick to one vendor's toolset you might be lucky
> enough
> to avoid this, but I would be less confident if you are trying to
> build a
> topic map that can be used equally by any tool (leave aside one you
> can use
> with XSL-T or other generic XML tools).
> 
> Topic map tools vendors are welcome to comment if they think this
> evaluation
> is too harsh, and/or to buttonhole me at XML 2001.
> 
>      Cheers,
>           Tony.
> ========
> Anthony B. Coates
> (1) Content Distribution Architect - Project Gazelle
> (2) Leader of XML Architecture & Design - Chief Technology Office
> Reuters Plc, London.
> Tony.Coates@reuters.com
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