Re: [topicmaps-comment] WANTED: Topic Map reference applications

[stefan.smolnik@notes.uni-paderborn.de]

Under development, but will be in productive
use soon (academic environment)

Name: Working title of the application framework 'Groupware-based Topic
Map'

Customer: Development within the context of my PhD research at the Groupware
Competence Center (http://gcc.upb.de), University of Paderborn, Germany

Brief description: The research project K-Discovery provides a conceptual
framework, an architecture and an implementation approach to create knowledge
structures by generating topic maps in organizational memories. It consists
of several components, in particular there are the 'Groupware-based Topic
Map Engine', the 'Groupware-based Topic Map Modeler', and the 'Groupware-based
Topic Map Navigator' (called 'Semantic Surfer'). Components for the visual
navigation of groupware-based topic maps are under development. In addition
to the existing techniques of search and navigation in groupware environments,
like hierarchical navigation in categories of views or full text search,
the user can be supported by the strong concept of associative navigation
in semantic networks. The goal of this project is to support users in finding
relevant knowledge or information in distributed organizational memories
by combining groupware paradigms and topic maps.

Online access: http://gtm.upb.de (To get a guest login for the 'Semantic
Surfer', please contact Stefan Smolnik.)

Find more: http://gtm.upb.de

Contact: Stefan Smolnik; Stefan.Smolnik@notes.upb.de; http://gcc.upb.de/StefanSmolnik

Best regards,

Stefan Smolnik
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Dipl.-Inform. Stefan Smolnik       Notes Mail:
Wirtschaftsinformatik 2 - FB 5     Stefan Smolnik@WIUNIPB@LOTUSINT
GCC - Groupware Competence Center  Internet Mail:
Prof. Dr. Ludwig Nastansky         Stefan.Smolnik@NOTES.UPB.DE
University of Paderborn            Tel.+49-5251-60-3375
(or -3368) 
Warburger Straße 100 - E5.130      Fax:+49-5251-60-3399
D-33098 Paderborn, Germany         WWW: http://gcc.upb.de
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"H. Holger Rath" <holger.rath@empolis.com>
wrote on 10.09.2002 11:16:56:

> Hi,
> 
> A major objective of TopicMaps.Org (which 
> hopefully will be established soon under
> the hospice of OASIS) is the marketing
> of the Topic Maps paradigm. An important
> issue of marketing a new technology is
> a list of reference projects successfully
> using the technology.
> 
> I would to initiate a thread about such
> successful reference topic map applications
> with the goal to put them together on the
> TopicMaps.Org web site and to maintain this
> list as a marketing instrument for the whole
> topic maps community and especially for the
> consultants and tool vendors.
> 
> Since this list will be taken serious by
> prospects topic map customers we should be
> very serious when putting this list together.
> 
> I propose that we categorize the TM applications
> into:
> 
> -   in productive use (professional environment)
> 
> -   in productive use (academic environment)
> 
> -   under development, but will be in productive use soon
>    (professional or academic env.)
> 
> Each application should be described with:
> 
>   Name: ((name of application))
> 
>   Customer: ((name of customer))
> 
>   Brief description: ((3-4 sentences describing the application))
> 
>   Online access: ((URL of application - if available))
> 
>   Find more: ((URL with more information about the application))
> 
>   Contact: ((person to contact to learn more about the application))
> 
> I hope that we are able to gather a variatiy of reference
> applications. If we are not able to do so we should raise the
> question if topic maps have beed a success yet.
> 
> I will start talking to our customers and to get their approval
> for publishing the information about their projects. See this
> email as a trigger for you to do the same. I am confident that
> we are able to put a first list together before Baltimore 
> (XML 2002 conference, Dec 08-13) and to use the list as marketing
> instrument in Baltimore already.
> 
> Regards,
> --Holger
> 
> -- 
> Dr. H. Holger Rath
> - Head of Consulting -
> 
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> 
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