Suggested Nokia Siemens Networks Netherlands Coffee and exhibition TM2009: Day 1 Coffee break (AM) 2009-03-19 10:40:00 2009-03-19 10:20:00 Subject OASIS Standard Norway cit GmbH Kirchheimer Str. 205 73265 Dettingen/Teck Germany Telephone Private sector Snowflake Software Hierarchical Relation Type Matre-Aas Elizabeth +47 91825639 Image Bodil Kjelstrup Project leader Rana Shahzad +47 90143710 Shahzad Rana is a serial entrepreneur with a technical background. Since 1993 he has started several successful IT companies in the fields of banking, finance and e-commerce. He is currently working with Questpoint/Intellisearch. In addition to roles on various boards he is also a member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34, the ISO subcommittee for document description languages. Rana, as he likes to be called, is an active participant in public debates, especially on social issues. He was a member of the jury for _TV2-Skaperen_, a TV series whose concept was to select the best new business ideas in Norway. A frequent speaker at conferences and other events, he has a great passion for innovation in business and technology, and he recently became convinced of the paradigm-shifting nature of subject-centric computing. Visions of Subject-Centric Computing 2008-04-04 2008-04-04 16:30:00 A panel discussion between some of the key speakers at the conference. What is this vision of subject-centric computing, do we agree among ourselves, and can we convince the rest of the world that what we are saying makes sense? A panel discussion between some of the key speakers at the conference. What is this vision of subject-centric computing, do we agree among ourselves, and can we convince the rest of the world that what we are saying makes sense? 2008-04-04 15:30:00 TM2009: Day 1 Coffee break (PM) Coffee and exhibition 2009-03-19 14:15:00 2009-03-19 14:40:00 Felix Konferansesenter +47 81555151 +47 22312202 Bryggetorget 3 Aker Bygge N-0114 Oslo Domain 000000004 000000003 A domain of experience, practice, etc. to which some subject belongs. A subject domain, such as Knowledge Management, e-Learning, Enterprise Architecture, etc. 000000001 English Emnekartverkstedverksted 2010::01 Emnekartverkstedverksted Målet med verkstedet er å lære mer om hvordan man kan utnytte emnekart til å lage navigasjonsprinsipper. Ved hjelp av kreative metoder leder vi deg gjennom en prosess hvor vi definerer emner og lager relasjoner mellom emnene. Til slutt lager vi enkle skisser for grensesnittet. Verkstedet er fritt for teknologiske hjelpemidler. Vi skal ha kreativitet og brukeropplevelse i fokus. Målgruppen for verkstedet er webredaktører, webdesignere og teknologer som ønsker å se emnekart fra brukerens side. 2010-04-14 12:00:00 2010-04-14 09:00:00 Målet med verkstedet er å lære mer om hvordan man kan utnytte emnekart til å lage navigasjonsprinsipper. Ved hjelp av kreative metoder leder vi deg gjennom en prosess hvor vi definerer emner og lager relasjoner mellom emnene. Til slutt lager vi enkle skisser for grensesnittet. Verkstedet er fritt for teknologiske hjelpemidler. Vi skal ha kreativitet og brukeropplevelse i fokus. Målgruppen for verkstedet er webredaktører, webdesignere og teknologer som ønsker å se emnekart fra brukerens side. 1 20 IKT Norge Sal 2 Comperio Myrens kjøkken Sandakervn 24 C, Oslo Crook Peter +47 93096223 Peter Crook is a Senior Advisor with Steria AS. He has extensive experience with business development and portal development within the finance sector. With a Master of Information Technology, the technological foundation is strong. He started working with Topic Maps in 2003 and his current focus is on tailoring the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS 2007) to special needs. Experiments in Linked Data Experiments in Linked Data 2010-04-15 14:50:00 2010-04-15 Linked data based on Topic Maps has a huge potential that is today largely unexploited in commercial applications, in large part because customers have not yet realized what is possible. In order to show what can be done, this presentation demonstrates the results of some private experiments in linked data which interconnect five real-world applications using Topic Maps. Among the techniques shown are data sharing using TMSync, attachment of relevant content, link sharing, connection to subj3ct.com, and manual import of data, all of these automated using data linking. Linked data based on Topic Maps has a huge potential that is today largely unexploited in commercial applications, in large part because customers have not yet realized what is possible. In order to show what can be done, this presentation demonstrates the results of some private experiments in linked data which interconnect five real-world applications using Topic Maps. 2010-04-15 15:20:00 Forskning på nett med emnekart Forskning på nett med emnekart Nofima valgte den emnekartbaserte publiseringsløsningen ZTM3 til sine nye nettsider. Emnekartet ble et nyttig verktøy for å knytte sammen mange løse tråder og skape et helhetlig nettsted. Her får du høre om arbeidsprosessen og erfaringer de har gjort seg. 2010-04-15 10:45:00 2010-04-15 11:15:00 2010-04-15 Nofima valgte den emnekartbaserte publiseringsløsningen ZTM3 til sine nye nettsider. Emnekartet ble et nyttig verktøy for å knytte sammen mange løse tråder og skape et helhetlig nettsted. Her får du høre om arbeidsprosessen og erfaringer de har gjort seg. Semantic mashup with Subj3ct.com and Topic Maps Semantic mashup with Subj3ct.com and Topic Maps This presentation demonstrates doing linked data between NRK Skole (educational videos) and Naturfag.no (learning resources in science) using Topic Maps and the Subj3ct.com subject identifier service. We show how this kind of semantic mashup can be done quickly and easily. 2010-04-15 11:50:00 2010-04-15 This presentation demonstrates doing linked data between NRK Skole (educational videos) and Naturfag.no (learning resources in science) using Topic Maps and the Subj3ct.com subject identifier service. We show how this kind of semantic mashup can be done quickly and easily. 2010-04-15 11:20:00 Brown Peter +32 (472) 027811 Peter is founder of Pensive.eu, a consultancy, research and software development company based in Vienna, Austria, and - since 2008 - Managing Director of its larger sister company, Pensive S.A., based in Brussels. He was Chair of the CEN eGovernment Focus Group throughout its mandate and until July 2006 was Senior Expert on eGovernment strategy in the Austrian Federal Chancellery where he promoted work on pan-European eGovernment services, electronic identity management and EU "Information Society" policies. He is currently an elected member of the Board of Directors of OASIS (The Organization for the Advacement of Structured Information Standards). From 2000 to 2004, Peter led data standardisation and interoperability efforts in the European Parliament and introduced the EU institutions to XML standards, business-centred information modelling, information architecture, and most recently to Topic Maps. He is the author of "Information Architecture with XML - a Management Strategy" (John Wiley and Sons, 2003), works regularly in many European languages, lectures extensively in Europe and North America and has worked as an expert for projects in Africa and Latin America. Call for presentations Call for presentations (TM2010) Topic Maps 2010 is targeted towards users and potential users of Topic Maps, in particular: * Information architects, software engineers and project managers working with portals and web sites; * Knowledge officers responsible for intranet-based knowledge management; * Corporate and commercial publishers; * Public sector providers of information; * Students and teachers of computer science and library and information science. h4.Presentations We are particularly interested in proposals for presentations based on real-life case studies, but other presentations aimed at practitioners of Topic Maps will be considered (e.g. tools overviews, generalized project experiences, etc.). Presentations will be 20-45 minutes long and will include time for questions. Attendance will range from 50-250 people in each track. Presentations are more likely to be accepted if they highlight an interesting, unusual or important aspect of Topic Maps, such as: * Applications that demonstrate measurable business benefits and ROI * Applications in industry and/or the private sector * Applications in fields other than pure web publishing, e.g. knowledge management * Linked Topic Maps - opening up information silos * Experiences from long term use of a Topic Maps based application * Experiences in organizing the editorial work Every application is noteworthy in its own way; make sure your proposal highlights the noteworthy aspects of your application! h4.Tutorials There will be a full day of tutorials 14 April. Proposals are sought on any Topic Maps-related subject that is suitable for a full-day or half-day tutorial. h4.Submissions Proposals should be approximately 500 words. Initial submissions may be sent to the program committee at any time – the sooner, the better. 2010-01-10 MARC, FRBR and RDA: The Topic Maps Perspective MARC, FRBR and RDA 2008-04-03 16:00:00 Librarians have a reputation for living in a world of their own and they certainly have their own long-established traditions. Their acronyms may be longer than ours, but the problems they have been wrestling with for centuries are exactly the ones we all face in today's Age of Infoglut: how to organize information and knowledge so that it can be easily found and reused. Today's information owners have a lot to learn from librarians. So can librarians save the world? This presentation argues that they can at least make a significant contribution to solving the problem of infoglut, but only if they update their skill set and understand how the concepts they have worked with for decades can be applied using modern technologies like Topic Maps. This presentation attempts to bridge the gap between the two communities, showing how the concepts that librarians both love and hate are related to Topic Maps and to the more general vision of subject-centric computing. 2008-04-03 16:30:00 As pioneers of subject-centric information management, librarians have a lot to contribute and a lot to gain from Topic Maps. This presentation explains how Topic Maps relates to metadata and subject classification, to models like FRBR and formats like MARC and RDA, and constitutes a unifying framework for all of the above. 2008-04-03 Track 1 TM2009: Day 1 Track 1d 2009-03-19 15:10:00 2009-03-19 14:40:00 2008::09 Application Development with Ruby Topic Maps Application Development with Ruby Topic Maps 7 2008-04-02 12:00:00 2008-04-02 09:00:00 5 A hands-on tutorial presenting RTM and the RTM on Shoes desktop application framework in which participants explore a sample application and follow the development of another. Time permitting, there will be a discussion about the future of RTM, focusing on integration with Java and the synergies between the Shoes and Rails applications. Ruby Topic Maps is an open source project consisting of three parts: a Topic Maps engine written in Ruby (RTM), a web application layer (RTM on Rails), and a desktop application framework (RTM on Shoes). In this hands-on tutorial the lead developer will present the RTM "family", show a sample RTM on Shoes application and give instruction on how to program RTM on Shoes. Participants will install RTM on Shoes, explore the sample application and develop a small application of their own. Time permitting, there will be a discussion of other features of RTM and the synergies between RTM on Shoes and RTM on Rails. Participants must bring their own laptops and have some familiarity with both Ruby and the core Topic Maps concepts. Integrering av kommunale tenester med MiSide Integrering av kommunale tenester 2006-03-29 2006-03-29 12:00:00 Høykom-prosjektet "Emnekart-teknologi og vidareutvikling av eServicetorg Numedal" har som mål å utnytta emnekart til integrering av kommunale tenester med MiSide og til å gjera tenestene lettare tilgjengelege for brukarane. 2006-03-29 12:30:00 Cardinality Subtitle Robert Strind System Developer Jarle Meløy Organization committee Organization committee (Emnekart 2006) 0rganization committee (Emnekart 2006) Enterprise Knowledge Integration Using Topic Maps Enterprise Knowledge Integration 2008-04-03 15:00:00 2008-04-03 14:30:00 Nokia Siemens Networks is carrying out a redesign of its online customer documentation delivery service using a combination of Topic Maps and SOA. The goal is to build an extranet-based information channel for distributing B2B product information and technical documentation covering the whole company product portfolio. 2008-04-03 A telecommunications infrastructure such as those provided by Nokia Siemens Networks is a multifaceted mega-system consisting of hardware, software and related services which are continuously upgraded and extended. Huge amounts of information are required to support the system from planning to decommission. Users of such a product rightly expect easy-to-use documentation, consistent navigation, and a powerful search facility on the product information portal. There is also a clear need for different views on the same information depending on the user's role and the business context. The current portal at Nokia Siemens Networks suffers from a number of problems in this respect. Nokia Siemens Networks is therefore carrying out a redesign of its online customer documentation delivery service using a combination of Topic Maps and SOA. The goal of the project is to build an information channel for distributing B2B product information and technical documentation in an extranet environment, covering the whole company product portfolio. The project has shown that Topic Maps provide even more flexibility than what is needed in the versatile but well-defined and rigid information world of an enterprise, and that - along with the good current status of the project - is indicative of a bright future. However, the project is starting to have implications for knowledge integration across the whole enterprise. This presentation discusses the various challenges and findings in the project. Subject identifier Benjamin Bock Researcher Benjamin is a Topic Maps researcher at the University of Leipzig, Germany. He started creating the first Topic Maps engine for Ruby in 2006 to unite rapid web application development with Ruby on Rails and the flexibility of Topic Maps data models. In 2008 he was founding member of the Topic Maps Lab where he now leads the Semantic Integration group. As an expert invited by the ISO he represents Germany in the further development of the Topic Maps international industry standards family. <a href="http://www.topicmapslab.de/people/Benjamin_Bock?locale=en">Full bio at topicmapslab.de</a> Cultural heritage Name type Library Science Befring Eirik Eirik Befring is currently with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). He works with quality assessment, development, journalism and Topic Maps. His past experience includes development of new communication services in Telenor and the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, as well web-related journalism in the Department of Education. Befring holds Masters degrees in Media and Communication and in Telecom Strategy. Registered for Registered for Registrants A binary relationship between a person or organization and an event for which it is registered. The Advantages of Model-driven Search 2009-03-19 15:10:00 Search technologies are continually improving, but even so we spend more and more time searching, filtering and interpreting search results than ever before. Exploring a few typical scenarios such as the "mediated search" and the "analysis search", Stian Danenbarger will throw light on how Topic Maps-based models, predefined searches and knowledge about the basic value creation mechanisms i different enterprises can be combined to yield more immediate value than general purpose search. 2009-03-19 2009-03-19 14:40:00 Search technologies are continually improving, but even so we spend more and more time searching, filtering and interpreting search results than ever before. Exploring a few typical scenarios such as the "mediated search" and the "analysis search", Stian Danenbarger will throw light on how Topic Maps-based models, predefined searches and knowledge about the basic value creation mechanisms i different enterprises can be combined to yield more immediate value than general purpose search. Topic Maps Community Portal The Topic Maps Lab is a 2008 founded venture at the University of Leipzig. The lab's goals are advances and innovations in Topic Maps technologies. Early 2009 the new "Topic Maps community portal":http://www.topicmapslab.de was launched, which is naturally based on Topic Maps. The portal, it's information architecture, some technical backgrounds and future features will be described. In a short summarising outlook the work at the Topic Maps Lab will be presented. 2009-03-19 2009-03-19 11:15:00 2009-03-19 11:25:00 Sylvia Schwab +47 98215491 Why is it so hard to share, and why don't we do as we say? 2009-03-19 Sharing is our way of life. Our existence and civilization is founded upon the principles of collaboration and sharing of resources and knowledge. In cyberspace we share images, cake recipes, opinions, and some even share things that belong to others. But in the field of education things are a little different. Because knowledge is power, money and prestige, and here there are too few incentives to motivate extensive sharing. In addition, sharing knowledge in cyberspace is not straightforward: Digital knowledge sharing assumes that we agree on the constituents and building blocks of knowledge, and how these are represented and distributed. NDLA is a national project with high ambitions on behalf of the sharing culture: Creative commons, open source and lifelong access for the public are some keywords. So high have the ambitions been that NDLA these days are launching a semantic model where topic maps and RDF melt together. 2009-03-19 09:40:00 2009-03-19 09:10:00 Requires skill level Required for Level A binary relationship between a course and the level of skill required to successfully complete it. Call for presentations Call for presentations Conference A binary relationship between an event (such as a conference) and a call for presentations. Topic Maps for Cultural Heritage Collections The NZETC digital library uses Topic Maps to structure its collection of over 2,000 texts, tens of thousands of records of people and places, and over 100,000 topics. Subjects and relationships implicit in the texts drive a presentational framework that delivers enhanced resource discovery and navigation both within and between collections. The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) is a digital library project at Victoria University of Wellington. The Centre has been digitising New Zealand books since early 2002, and publishing them on its website. Since April 2005, the structure of the website has been based on Topic Maps. Many digital library websites use a resource-centric organisation, in which individual documents are the primary or exclusive objects of interest. By contrast the NZETC's Topic Maps-based website has a more subject-centric architecture which accommodates not only the digitised texts and images, but equally their subjects and themes, their authors and publishers, as well as the people and places mentioned or depicted in those texts and images. Because of the generality of the Topic Maps paradigm, the conceptual structure can be extended as needed, e.g. to include extra classification schemes such as Linnaean classification for biological texts, or to provide more specific types of relationships between texts, such as a new law repealing a section of an old law. Texts in the NZETC collection are transcribed into XML which encodes the logical structure of the texts, such as their division into paragraphs, sections, and chapters, and also bibliographic metadata such as the author, subject classification, and publication information. This presentation describes the work of the NZETC to further identify and encode subjects and relationships implicit in our texts, and to use this information to generate a navigational framework capable of delivering enhanced resource discovery and navigation both within and between collections. A key part of the work is authority control: unambiguously identifying people, places, and other entities mentioned in the digitised texts. To support this work, the NZETC has developed software tools for searching and matching names, including a database application called Entity Authority Tool Set (EATS), which we use to allocate unique identifiers for all the subjects in our texts, and store names, biographical data, and external links. The NZETC's topic map is constructed automatically by transforming each of the TEI documents, the authority database, and other sources, into individual XML Topic Map documents, and merging these topic maps together using the open source TM4J Topic Map engine. The NZETC system is based on international standards for the representation and interchange of knowledge. Digitised texts are encoded using Text Encoding for Interchange (TEI). Authority lists are maintained in a purpose-built database and exchanged using Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS). TEI and MADS documents are transformed using Extensible Stylesheets (XSLT) into XML Topic Maps (XTM). The topic maps themselves use the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model CRM. The collection includes over 2000 texts and tens of thousands of records of people and places, totally about 110,000 topics. 2008-04-03 2008-04-03 16:30:00 2008-04-03 17:00:00 Space Applications Services Space Applications Services Map reference 60 Reference (link) to a map showing the location of an organization, place of interest, etc. Bergen's Citizens Portal How can local government use Topic Maps to make life easier for its citizens 2007-03-21 2007-03-21 09:40:00 2007-03-21 10:15:00 The City of Bergen is currently launching the new City Portal. This is the first City Portal in Norway based on Topic Maps. In the local government sector, it represents a new method of combining business processes with Topic Maps. It also represents a new and ambitious method in the public sector to publish news, information, and documents by using the advantages of Topic Maps. Integration and standardization of topics and associations in local and central government lead to productive new ways of seeking information regardless of which portal the citizen prefers to use. TM2008: Day 1 Track 1b Product Documentation 2008-04-03 15:30:00 2008-04-03 14:00:00 Course of study Coolheads Consulting Call 000000008 000000010 Call for papers, presentations, tutorials or participation at a conference. Scope note: If the call is at an external site, only the web page should be used. Otherwise everyone occurrence should be included. (Note: With the current cardinality settings, calls at external sites will have validation errors, but this evil is necessary in order to ensure that calls internal to the topic map are correctly populated.) 000000007 000000006 000000001 000000011 Intermediate Torsten Semmler Brastad Thomas +47 48039042 New Zealand And What of Indexes? And What of Indexes? 2007-03-21 14:30:00 2007-03-21 14:00:00 One of the original use cases for topic maps was the creation and merging of traditional indexes for printed materials. The range of uses for topic maps has expanded to include archives and libraries, image collections, navigation of European administrative nomenclature and software development. And the list continues to grow with each topic maps oriented conference. But what of the original use case with indexes? The recently approved Ecma standard, Office Open XML (OOXML) is 6,036 pages long in five separate parts. How useful is it really to be able to search for _w:p_ and to find it occurs 775 times in more than 6,000 pages? Granted that a useful index could have been constructed for this standard, but it wasn't. This presentation addresses three separate but closely related issues: * How to extract topics from OOXML markup. * How to extract associations from OOXML markup despite the lack of customary XML structures. * Creation of a topic map based index for the OOXML standard. Some of the material will be specific to the OOXML standard per se but for the most part the techniques to be demonstrated are generally applicable, assuming proper document analysis, to any OOXML document. What do you do when given a poorly indexed 6,039 page standard for review? Change jobs? Have you thought about using a topic map? The Open Office XML specification from Ecma is 6,039 pages. Creation of a topic map from OOXML format is demonstrated for useful navigation of that standard. The techniques demonstrated are applicable to any document in OOXML format. 2007-03-21 Mountain Knowledge Hub Building a Mountain Knowledge Hub in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region 2007-03-21 15:30:00 Institutional Knowledge Management is inadvertably overcoming the initial set backs and is now trying to standardize, consolidate and spread best practices. A whole new approach based on topic map has been emerging to use and share institutional knowledge widely. Standardized metadata describes context, characteristics, collection, and organization of data in standardized fashions by which the investment of valuable man hours is not lost in spite of human resource turnover in organizations. In this context, my presentation is devoted to the management of the Mountain Knowledge management focusing on the Mountain GeoPortal (http://menris.icimod.org) framework which was formally launched on the occasion of World Environment Day 2006 by the MENRIS Division of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD to share GIS/RS related environment and natural resources information. This is a major step towards fulfilling the long-term goal of establishing a regional and national Geographic Information Infrastructure (GII) in the region. In view of this, Spatial Metadata Management System (SMMS - ISO 19115) to handle spatial metadata has been linked with the GeoPortal system, but SMMS does not have the knowledge handling capabilities required to enhance knowledge management aspect of thematic areas of the region. In this presentation SMMS and the knowledge management system in the context of the GeoPortal will be discussed. The usefulness of adopting ISO Topic Maps and the linkages with the internal and external resources within and outside the portal framework will also be discussed in detail. The proposition underlying the presentation is mainly three areas: Harvesting metadata, choice of system architecture, catalogue services for handling and publishing of metadata entries. If tools, technologies and standards are brought together, are potentially corresponds and there can be common benefit to the HKH communities. The Mountain GeoPortal menris.icimod.org is an effective to sharing of mountain natural resources information and knowledge. Such platform is considered a step towards fulfilling the long-term goal of establishing knowledge centre in the region, but has its limitations. In this respect, Topic Maps solution promise to provide a standardized technical means to fulfill its goal is discuss and demonstrate the portal system based on Topic Maps. 2007-03-21 15:00:00 2007-03-21 Conference 000000147 000000204 000000203 000000222 000000144 000000221 000000143 000000201 000000145 000000202 000000198 000000200 000000220 000000224 000000223 000000197 000000227 000000199 000000146 000000229 000000228 TM2006: Track 1 Track 1 2006-03-29 15:00:00 2006-03-29 11:00:00 City of Stuttgart Semantic Information Portal 2006-03-29 The Kommunales Rats- und Verwaltungsinformationssystem is an Information Portal which uses a topic map as a central "knowledge hub" to connect a wide range of information sources and provide a single point of access to all information for members of the city council, mayors, and others. 2006-03-29 11:30:00 2006-03-29 11:00:00 2008::10 Ruby Topic Maps in Action RTM in Action Ruby Topic Maps in Action This interactive workshop is for those people who attended the Introduction to Ruby Topic Maps. It provides the opportunity to develop a more substantial application using RTM and at the same time explore and understand some of the central concepts of subject-centric computing - and how to apply them in a Web 2.0 context. The application will centre around the notion of semantic blogging and will demonstrate, among other things, the advantages of subject-centric newsfeeds as compared to "traditional" RSS and Atom feeds. 2008-04-02 16:00:00 10 5 Workshop participants will develop a semantic blog using RTM on Rails (web application framework) and a blog ontology. We will explore the concepts of subject-centric computing, and demonstrate the advantages of subject-centric newsfeeds with XTM export, compared to traditional RSS and Atom feeds. 2008-04-02 13:00:00 Email address Topic Maps for Information Architects 2008::08 Topic Maps for Information Architects 4 Although originally conceived before the World Wide Web took off in the mid 1990s, Topic Maps has proven to be an ideal technology for structuring portals and web sites in general. Many of the most visible applications of Topic Maps are web sites and many people mistakenly believe that Topic Maps is "just" a portal technology. Although this is far from being the case, it is true that the Topic Maps model constitutes an excellent out-of-the-box information architecture. This tutorial explains why this is the case and how information architects, interaction designers and front end programmers can reap the benefits of Topic Maps in their daily work. It assumes familiarity with the basic concepts of Topic Maps equivalent to that gained by attending the tutorial Understanding Topic Maps. 2008-04-02 16:00:00 2008-04-02 13:00:00 Despite being originally conceived long before the Web took off, Topic Maps has proven to be an ideal technology for structuring web sites. This tutorial teaches how information architects, interaction designers and front-end programmers can themselves reap the benefits of Topic Maps and pass those benefits on to their customers. 31 Grip Studios Interactive Program committee advisors Program committee advisors (Topic Maps 2008) Topic Maps in LIS Maintained by Kevin Trainor at Ligent. This is a mailing list about Topic Maps technology in the field of Library and Information Science(s). TopicMapsInLIS welcomes all who wish to discuss Topic Maps technology and its relationship with LIS. Both newcomers and experienced Topic Maps enthusiasts are equally welcome. Norwegian Meteorological Institute Track 2 TM2010: Day 1 Track 2e 2010-04-15 13:50:00 2010-04-15 14:20:00 Venue for Takes place in Venue Getting Cured with Topic Maps 2009-03-19 09:50:00 2009-03-19 2009-03-19 10:20:00 Still haven't got Topic Maps under your skin? Or just want to know hear an example of where it fits in? Rikshospitalet is a major Norwegian hospital that uses Topic Maps in order to ensure that clients understand how illnesses, examinations, treatments and clinics fit together. The presenter is a true Topic Maps enthusiast who will show how this navigation tool is used for the web site at Rikshospitalet. _Health warning:_ This presentation may lead to severe Topic Maps addiction! Coffee and exhibition TM2008: Day 1 Coffee break (PM) 2008-04-03 16:00:00 2008-04-03 15:30:00 Ontology Design 2008::03 Introduction to Ontology Design Introduction to Ontology Design A half-day tutorial on how to do ontology modelling with Topic Maps, which teaches proper use of the constructs in Topic Maps for modelling, such as topic types, association types, occurrence types, and role types. Rules of thumb and guidelines are given to help attendees use these constructs correctly. The tutorial also teaches a procedure for creating Topic Maps ontologies which can be applied to any ontology creation project. It also covers the role of ontology design in a larger Topic Maps application project, and how to make sure that the ontology matches requirements, data sources, and that it is generally agreed on. 2008-04-02 09:00:00 2008-04-02 12:00:00 27 Learn the basics of how to model ontologies with Topic Maps, including rules of thumb for using topic types, association types, occurrence types, and role types; guidelines for documentation; a methodology that can be applied to any ontology creation project; and the role of ontology design in a larger Topic Maps application project. 2 Affiliated with Affiliated with Affiliates TMCL Mailing List The purpose of tmcl-wg@isotopicmaps.org is to facilitate technical work on the ISO/IEC 19756 "Topic Maps Constraint Language" International Standard. Anyone can subscribe to this list, and its archives are open to the public. Anyone can submit contributions to the list; these are subject to review before they are posted. Contributions should be limited to substantive discussions of technical questions and issues regarding TMCL. Steria Biskop Gunnerus' gate 14A N-0051 Oslo Norway Horvati Eszter +47 92289290 Eszter has been at Ovitas for 1.5 year, gradually getting more and more familiar with Topic Maps. She has a background from Language, Logic and Information at the University of Oslo. Presented by Presenter Presenter of Improved Findability through Semantic Search Improved Findability through Semantic Search Ovitas has developed a solution that improves result relevancy of fulltext search by adding semantics. By making use of a knowledge model that represents objects, concepts and relationships in the domain of discourse, we enhance a traditional fulltext search in a way that ensures that the user will never step out of his selected semantic space. We will show an example of the solution, Compass, in use through the websites of the Norwegian Pharmaceutical Formulary, “Felleskatalogen”. 2007-03-21 15:00:00 2007-03-21 2007-03-21 15:30:00 Track 1 TM2010: Day 1 Track 1c 2010-04-15 11:20:00 2010-04-15 11:50:00 Anskaffelser.no Fem gevinster ved emnekart illustrert ved eksempler Gjennom eksempler fra et halvt dusin nettsteder basert på emnekart vil du få illustrert gevinstene: 1) Flere veier til informasjon, 2) forbedret søk og gjenfinning, 3) støtte til ulike konsepter, 4) innhold og presentasjon atskilt, 5) utveksling mellom nettsteder basert på delt semantikk. 2010-04-15 11:50:00 2010-04-15 2010-04-15 11:20:00 Gjennom eksempler fra et halvt dusin nettsteder basert på emnekart vil du få illustrert gevinstene: 1) Flere veier til informasjon, 2) forbedret søk og gjenfinning, 3) støtte til ulike konsepter, 4) innhold og presentasjon atskilt, 5) utveksling mellom nettsteder basert på delt semantikk. HTML Has cardinality Marta Prerovska Marta Prerovska is Head of web-section at Departementenes servicesenter (Government Administration Services in Norway) since 2004. She has been responsible for coordination of internal and external resourses used during planning and developing regjeringen.no – the new website for the Norwegian Government and the ministries. From 1999 to 2003 she worked on various web and communication projects as an advisor for Gazette, a communication agency in Oslo. Marta Prerovska also has 15 years’ experience from the public sector as advisor for use of ICT and web-technology for dissemination of information and communication. Pattern The Topic Maps Attitude 2006-03-29 Topic Maps is a step along the road to global knowledge interchange. Much of its success is due to the fact that it is resolutely responsive to current technological, economic, and anthropological conditions, and just as resolutely responsive to certain philosophical values and attitudes. In this presentation, the inventor of Topic Maps explains the values and attitudes that he finds most remarkable. 2006-03-29 09:45:00 2006-03-29 09:00:00 Topic Maps as Tourist Attraction? 2009-03-19 Can Topic Maps attract more visitors to Norway? VisitNorway.com is Norway's official tourism portal. It's mission is to inspire tourists to take repeated trips to Norway. This presentation will give a good insight into the use of Topic Maps for this web site. We discuss our experiences, the challenges we faced and the potential of using Topic Maps with content whose structure may be ambiguous and where conflicts of interest easily arise. 2009-03-19 11:10:00 2009-03-19 10:40:00 RZPD German Resource Center for Genome Research Organized by Organizer of Organized by Exactly one Ontology Topic type University of Minho Hitachi Systems & Services Stian Danenbarger Stian Danenbarger is an information architect and technical concept developer at the Norwegian IT consultancy Bouvet ASA. His formal background is a Cand.Scient. (~M.Sc.) degree in computer science from the University of Oslo, where he specialized in applied numerical science. Stian initiated the development of topic map driven web sites and content management systems in Norway in 2001, and is by some considered key to the high activity there since then. His focus has been on the application of semantic technology and web oriented architecture in the public sector, particularly in the educational area. Stian has presented in a long list of fora in Norway, including most of the major Topic Maps conferences held there, once at XMLUK in 2003, and once at TMRA07. He is an avid photographer, and enjoys outdoor activities, wine, beer, music, and social cookery whenever he can. <a href="http://www.topicmapslab.de/people/Stian_Danenbarger?locale=en">Bio at topicmapslab.de</a> +47 98238080 Superordinate Role Type IndiePix - Finding Films Through Topic Maps IndiePix - Finding Films 2007-03-21 12:15:00 2007-03-21 2007-03-21 11:40:00 IndiePix is a leading online retailer of independently produced movies. Selling in the independent film market presents some opportunities and some unique problems - films and film makers are generally not well known, but the best films have a much longer sales life-time than a Hollywood blockbuster. This presentation describes how topic maps have been used to help organise the IndiePix catalog and present customers with a unique browsing experience that automatically tailors itself to their interests. Institutional Knowledge Management is inadvertably overcoming the initial set backs and is now trying to standardize, consolidate and spread best practices. A whole new approach based on topic map has been emerging to use and share institutional knowledge widely. Standardized metadata describes context, characteristics, collection, and organization of data in standardized fashions by which the investment of valuable man hours is not lost in spite of human resource turnover in organizations. In this context, my presentation is devoted to the management of the Mountain Knowledge management focusing on the Mountain GeoPortal (http://menris.icimod.org) framework which was formally launched on the occasion of World Environment Day 2006 by the MENRIS Division of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD to share GIS/RS related environment and natural resources information. This is a major step towards fulfilling the long-term goal of establishing a regional and national Geographic Information Infrastructure (GII) in the region. In view of this, Spatial Metadata Management System (SMMS - ISO 19115) to handle spatial metadata has been linked with the GeoPortal system, but SMMS does not have the knowledge handling capabilities required to enhance knowledge management aspect of thematic areas of the region. In this presentation SMMS and the knowledge management system in the context of the GeoPortal will be discussed. The usefulness of adopting ISO Topic Maps and the linkages with the internal and external resources within and outside the portal framework will also be discussed in detail. The proposition underlying the presentation is mainly three areas: Harvesting metadata, choice of system architecture, catalogue services for handling and publishing of metadata entries. If tools, technologies and standards are brought together, are potentially corresponds and there can be common benefit to the HKH communities. Digital Insight Nedre Vollgt 8 NO-0158 Oslo Norway Part Subj3ct.com - Linked Data DNS Subj3ct.com Linked Data is a growing movement that is seeing organisations and government publish data online. The data published is about subjects, e.g. a person, or a place. Linked Data requires that all these subjects are identified with a URL and it encourages that the data published links to the data about other things using more URLs. What Linked Data doesn't define or provide for is the ability to go and find out about a given subject, and where on the web data about it can be found. Subj3ct.com is an online service that allows organisations that are publishing data to register and publish the identifiers they are using for different concepts. The information in subj3ct.com can be used to lookup identifiers for common things. This in turn aids interchange, helps to find links to data on the web about a given subject, and to find equivalent identifiers. With Topic Maps, Semantic Web and Linked Data now moving onto the web, it is URLs that are connecting it all together, and subj3ct.com is the place to find and manage URLs that matter. Subj3ct.com was first announced at Topic Maps 2009. Since then it has grown to contain over 16 million subject identifiers and related resources. Organisations are just beginning to see the value of using this repository of identifiers to share and aggregate semantic data. This talk presents the basic concepts of Subj3ct.com in a non technical way. It then discusses several different usage scenarios that are being adopted as a way to better share and find information on the web. 2010-04-15 11:15:00 2010-04-15 10:45:00 2010-04-15 Subj3ct.com was first announced at Topic Maps 2009. Since then it has grown to contain over 16 million subject identifiers and related resources. Organisations are just beginning to see the value of using this repository of identifiers to share and aggregate semantic data. This talk presents the basic concepts of Subj3ct.com in a non technical way. It then discusses several different usage scenarios that are being adopted as a way to better share and find information on the web. TM2010: Day 1 Track 1b Track 1 2010-04-15 10:45:00 2010-04-15 11:15:00 André Kongevold Interaction Designer Status 000000001 000000002 Cerpus 2010::03 How to do linked data with Topic Maps How to do linked data with Topic Maps 2010-04-14 12:00:00 Linked Data is gaining more popularity as a way to expose government and public information. While the main format for Linked Data is RDF it is possible to publish Linked Data from a Topic Map. This tutorial presents the concepts and techniques for publishing Topic Maps data as Linked Data. 3 2010-04-14 09:00:00 1 Linked Data is gaining more popularity as a way to expose government and public information. While the main format for Linked Data is RDF it is possible to publish Linked Data from a Topic Map. This tutorial presents the concepts and techniques for publishing Topic Maps data as Linked Data. Web page A web page containing information about the subject. Ibsens skrifter på nett Ibsens skrifter på nett ved hjelp av emnekart 2006-03-29 11:00:00 2006-03-29 Etter 8 års arbeid med bygging av et komplett elektronisk arkiv over alle Ibsens tekster, skal brev, dikt, dramaer og arbeidsmanuskript nå gjøres tilgjengelig på nett. Emnekartteknologi skal sikre gjenfinnbarhet der fritekstsøk kommer til kort. 2006-03-29 11:30:00 Is Topic Maps Really a Semantic Technology? (Description to follow) Lavik Stian Stian Lavik holds a MSc in Information Technology Management, and he is currently working as Development Manager for Cerpus AS. Isen smelter – kan Topic Maps hjelpe? Isen smelter – kan Topic Maps hjelpe? 2007-03-21 2007-03-21 13:30:00 Innholdsforvaltning kan være en utfordring for organisasjoner som benytter web som hovedkanal for kommunikasjon. Det Internasjonale Polaråret 2007-2008 er den største internasjonale forskningsinnsatsen innen polarforskningen på 50 år. Nettsidene til Polaråret skal ivareta all formidling ovenfor målgruppene i et prosjekt som skal reflektere en virkelighet som er i stadig endring. Nettstedets innhold setter krav til en levende struktur og derfor har prosjektet valgt en emnekartbasert løsning. Hvordan kan denne løsningen ivareta Polarårets ambisjoner? 2007-03-21 14:00:00 Culture for Sharing (Description to follow) Tying everything together at UiB The restructuring of the University of Bergen web site required good arguments for bringing everything together in a single content management system, with a uniform graphical profile and information architecture. The possibility offered by Topic Maps of building connections across all our activities in research, education and outreach, across organizational boundaries and between all the people involved in our the system became an important motivating factor in the process. But, as always, the art of self-limitation applies. UiB has started with a small number of relationship types that provide a foundation for an ever-improving presentation of UiBs multifarious activities. The new web site at the University of Bergen is based on Topic Maps and the Open Source content management tool ZTM. 2009-03-19 2009-03-19 14:15:00 2009-03-19 13:45:00 Track 1 TM2006: Track 1 (cont) 2006-03-29 15:00:00 2006-03-29 14:00:00 Semantic Interoperability: Norway Semantic Interoperability: The State of the Nation (Norway) Semantic interoperability is a hot topic in E-Government. This track reports on the current status of semantic interoperability initiatives in Norway and the role that Topic Maps is playing. A series of lightning talks presents a range of projects including Norge.no and Minside, which recently won an EU award of excellence. 2008-04-03 2008-04-03 14:00:00 2008-04-03 15:00:00 The term eGovernment refers to government’s use of information technology to exchange information and services with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government. This requires interoperability at the technical, semantic and organization level. This track reports on the current status of semantic interoperability initiatives in Norway and Europe, and the various ways in which Topic Maps is being used as an enabling technology in order to achieve the goal of connecting and exchanging information based on its meaning. The session on Norway includes lightning presentations on a number of projects, including * *Altinn*, a public reporting portal with the motto "Simplified Electronic Dialogue" whose goal is to simplify the reporting, exchange and publication of information between the Government and the citizenry. * *Norway.no* (norge.no), an online gateway to the public sector in Norway that aims to help members of the public find public information and access public services more easily. * *Los*, a common classification system for information about public services, whose goal is to enable data to be shared between public sector institutions such as local municipalities. * *Government.no* (regjeringen.no), the official web site for providing services and conveying information from the Government, Ministries and Prime Minister's Office, and for conducting dialogue with the citizenry. * *Stortinget.no*, the official web site of the Norwegian Parliament, which provides information about the Storting, its members, the administration and the Norwegian political system. * *Minside*, a user-friendly point of access to Norwegian officialdom which was awarded the European eGovernment Award in 2007. Country 000000007 000000006 000000009 000000008 Establishing Conclusive Proof in Forensic Data Analysis 2008-04-03 2008-04-03 16:30:00 2008-04-03 16:00:00 Fraud cases in the field of financial administration typically involve analysis of terabytes of data. This presentation describes how Topic Maps is being used to combine existing data sources with the knowledge and assertions of domain experts in order to uncover new facts and establish more conclusive proof. SBV Forensics is a specialist in fraud in cases similar to the famous Enron scandal. Its core business is investigating incidences, irregularities, illegalities and/or criminal conduct in the field of financial administration. Some of this work involves the analysis of huge amounts of data. In such cases, analysts, forensic accountants and related business users spend much of their time looking for evidence and uncovering incriminating relationships in information systems and environments. In many traditional forensic applications it is possible to visualize networks of relations and perform complex searches, but the real domain knowledge cannot be represented. To counter this, SBV Forensics uses Topic Maps to connect and leverage existing indexes and structured data sources in order to establish more conclusive proof, and to combine this pre-existing data with the knowledge of domain experts: lawyers, liquidators and (forensic) accountants. These people know a lot about relevant indicators of behavior and they make a lot of assertions and assertions about assertions, all of which can be captured in a topic map. In particular, the necessary contextualization (for example, who made which assertion) is easily represented in the topic map. In one particular case the main challenge was to find evidence of fraud in millions of e-mails. To handle this problem the core concepts mentioned in the formal injunction formed part of a topic map which was used by the fraud analyst in conjunction with a Topic Maps-based search tool to support his research. As a result, new facts were uncovered that could be used to strengthen the allegations of the plaintiff. This presentation discusses some of these cases using anonymized data and shows the benefits that Topic Maps has provided. Subtype Japan Pensive Halogen Kristian Augustsgate 15a, N-0130 Oslo, Norway Topic Maps Portals for Real Life Topic Maps Portals for Real Life: Student projects at the University of Leipzig 2007-03-21 15:30:00 In the context of a master module “Content and Knowledge Management” at University of Leipzig students had to participate in a practical course. The topic of this course was building Topic Maps portals. All students were completely new to the concept of Topic Maps. The course started with an introduction of Topic Maps and all relevant technologies (6 hours). The focus of the conceptual introduction was the emphasis of the linking and network effects which can be gained in topic maps. Inspired by the introduction all students had to develop a Topic Maps portal about a theme of their own choice within 10 weeks. All implementations base on the Ontopia OKS. These portals will be presented shortly. All students had to decide whether they want to implement the portals with a content management focus or with a knowledge management focus. From the first perspective, clearly defined editorial processes have to be defined and implemented. From the second perspective, the systems should look like Web 2.0 tool, where all users can modify and assess the linked knowledge base in a collaborative fashion. The implemented portals are: * Nightwish – a fan webpage for a finish heavy metal band * Uni4Students – showing the links at the university from the students’ perspective * .Net– disclosing the dependencies in the .NET framework * ASV – rebuilding the website of one university department as Topic Maps portal * Australia – documenting travels and adventures in Australia * Course Material – organising course material subject-centric Besides presenting the portals, a second, very interesting issue should be discussed in the talk. All master students were completely new to Topic Maps and learned the concept from scratch (very fast). From this situation we can learn, how to inspire people from the idea of Topic Maps (what does people fascinate on Topic Maps) and what common pitfalls are, newcomers usually tap in (what have to be introduced carefully and with lot of examples). 2007-03-21 Topic Maps Portals based on Ontopia’s OKS were implemented in seven student projects at University of Leipzig. The thematic focus of the portals was of free choice by the students. A wide range was implemented: from travelling in Australia and listening to Finnish Heavy Metal, via disclosing dependencies in .NET or Eclipse, to enhancing the student’s information access at university by different approaches. Besides presenting the portals, some lessons learned from teaching Topic Maps to newcomers will be presented. 2007-03-21 16:00:00 Oslo TM2006: Conference Day Wednesday March 29 3 2006-03-29 Track 2 TM2006: Track 2 2006-03-29 15:00:00 2006-03-29 11:00:00 Emnekart i Ansattportalen til Bærum kommune Emnekart i Ansattportalen til Bærum kommune 2010-04-15 En av utfordringene med intranett er å gjøre innholdet mer tilgjengelig på tvers av struktur og organisasjon. Bærum kommune tok med seg erfaringene fra emnekartet i internettportalen sin for å løse dette problemet. Fokus i deres emnekart er emneord som beskriver rutiner, regler og interne tjenester, samt personaltilbud som tilbys virksomhetene og ansatte i kommunen. Nå finner de ansatte det de trenger uten å ha kunnskap om hvordan kommunen er organisert og hvem som har ansvar for hva. 2010-04-15 13:45:00 2010-04-15 13:15:00 En av utfordringene med intranett er å gjøre innholdet mer tilgjengelig på tvers av struktur og organisasjon. Bærum kommune tok med seg erfaringene fra emnekartet i internettportalen sin for å løse dette problemet. Fokus i deres emnekart er emneord som beskriver rutiner, regler og interne tjenester, samt personaltilbud som tilbys virksomhetene og ansatte i kommunen. Nå finner de ansatte det de trenger uten å ha kunnskap om hvordan kommunen er organisert og hvem som har ansvar for hva. TM2010: Day 1 Track 2b Track 2 2010-04-15 10:45:00 2010-04-15 11:15:00 Theme Telefax Call for presentations (TM2007) Call for presentations 2007-01-01 N/A Adding Value to a QMS Adding Value to a Quality Management System for Securities 2008-04-03 17:00:00 2008-04-03 The Norwegian Central Securities Depository has recently implemented an ISO 9000-approved Quality Management System using Topic Maps. Peter Crook describes how the core of the system was built around a task-centric view of the organization’s processes and outlines the resulting gains in transparency, efficiency and quality. 2008-04-03 16:30:00 Verdipapirsentralen (VPS) was established by law as Norway’s sole Central Securities Depository. It is now a for-profit public company and was recently merged with the Oslo Stock Exchange. It offers registration of ownership, clearing and settlement services, and corporate actions services for domestic and foreign financial instruments. VPS has a task-based methodology for its internal work processes. This was recently re-implemented in an ISO 9000-approved Quality Management System based on Topic Maps, using the TMCore07 Sharepoint module in conjuction with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS2007). The system is built around the concept of "tasks". Tasks are related to "events", such as anomalies, system changes, and change requests, and all of these connections are represented in a topic map. Tasks are also related to customers and products, which are also topics in the topic map. Documents are classified according to the relevant tasks, products, customers, etc. Every customer and product has its own workspace where all relevant activity is collected via the topic map. The result is a complete knowledge base that provides office support across the organization. This presentation describes the system and the major benefits that it has delivered in terms of transparency, efficiency and improved quality. Ontopedia Maridalsveien 99b N-0461 Oslo Norway Vivek Venkatesh Vivek Venkatesh is a lecturer and Ph. D. Candidate in the Educational Technology program at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. His research, funded by the Government of Québec, focuses on integrating topic maps into the design of course management systems and studying the cognitive behaviors of adult learners as they navigate repositories indexed by topic maps. Edgar Valdmanis +47 95234608 Emnekartbasert metadataløsning for regjeringen.no? Emnekartbasert metadataløsning for regjeringen.no? 2006-03-29 14:30:00 Regjeringen.no skal erstatte nåværende ODIN, som er det felles nettstedet for regjeringen og departementene. Det stilles krav om utstrakt bruk av metadata for å kunne betjene brukerne med relevant informasjon og dermed blir emnekart aktuelt. Presentasjonen belyser noen av utfordringene og retningene som er valgt så langt i prosjektet. 2006-03-29 2006-03-29 14:00:00 Motomu Naito CEO Motomu Naito is a guest associate professor of Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University. He is also founder and CEO of Knowledge Synergy Inc. He has been working with SGML and XML document sharing/exchanging on the WEB for many years. Recently he is engaging in several Topic Maps projects. He calls himself Topic Maps enthusiast in Japan, and is one of the delegates to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 (Topic Maps WG) from Japan. Motomu Naito made JIS (Japanese Industrial Standards) standards of Topic Maps by translating the ISO standards. He and his friends published a Topic Maps book in Japan in Dec. 2006. <a href="http://www.topicmapslab.de/people/Motumo_Naito?locale=en">Bio at topicmapslab.de</a> TM2007: Track 1 (cont) Track 1 2007-03-21 16:00:00 2007-03-21 13:30:00 Friday April 4 TM2008: Conference Day 2 2008-04-04 2 Identity field Given name Thursday March 19 TM2009: Conference Day 1 2009-03-19 2 Ravn Mondeca University University of Leipzig Finance Schjønsby Agnete +47 90571503 Published Subjects: Small Pieces, Meaningfully Joined 2008-04-04 Modern web sites have demonstrated the utility of keyword based tags as very lightweight indicators of a particular subject to human viewers, e.g. to indicate what a video posted on youtube.com is about, seen from the perspecive of the poster. In addition, algoritms can use identical tags within the same address space as string based identifiers to manage sets of objects or data presumably about the same indicated subject, e.g. "person". Many sites have also made these sets globally adressable over HTTP, as in http://flickr.com/photos/tags/person/, which, combined with common formats like RSS and Atom, make it technically and syntactically straightforward to merrily aggregate sets of information items across multiple sites. ...Simply assume that the identifiers for the different data sets identify the same subject - and presto...! Similar set based operations, even updates, can be performed across other distributed information systems, given a shared address space, protocol, and format(s). The fact that interoperability at this level is technically feasible, however, doesn't guarantee that any given set operation is in any way meaningful. In some contexts, such operations can be illegal - even dangerous. E.g. the well-known FOAF information model says that ”Something is a foaf:Person if it is a person. We don’t nitpic about whether they’re alive, dead, real or imaginary”. It is obvious that imaginary persons could be risky to involve in e.g. medical or legal contexts. From the discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person, it should be similarly obvious that different definitions of "person" are needed in different contexts. While diversity is good, it becomes a challenge when e.g. a quick search for "localname:person" at the "semantic web search engine" Swoogle at the point of this writing returns 1873 different URI-based identifiers, and provides little or no information on how these identifiers are applied in various contexts, how to stay updated on changes, and how to understand various conceptual model related constraints and assumptions. How is a poor human to know which one to reuse for meaningful (semantic) interoperability? Based on the well-established "Levels of Conceptual Interoperability Model (LCIM)" from Virginia Modeling Analysis & Simulation Center, this presentation will go some way towards indicating why identifiers in distributed environments should not only resolve to provide natural language semantic disambiguation where necessary, but also provide services for further discovery of application context specific information to ease reuse. Finally, Enterprise Architects will be interested to know which business contexts appear to benefit most from the dynamic, model driven approach to interoperability suggested in this presentation. Recent findings from the European Commision/IST funded "Informal Study Group on Value Proposition for Enterprise Interoperability" will be presented briefly to give some indication on this. Combining subject-centric organization with the ability to merge arbitrary topic maps can help achieve the holy grail of semantic interoperability, but only if systems know when they are talking about the same thing. Learn how Published Subjects provides a solution to the challenge of global identity. 2008-04-04 12:00:00 2008-04-04 11:30:00 Marit Lofnes Mellingen +47 47252209 Marit Lofnes Mellingen has a background in knowledge organization, psychologi, management and IT. She has worked at Norway.no, "the gateway to the public sector in Norway", since its formation in 1999, first as a consultant with responsibility for usability and information structure, later as assistent director and provisional director. She is currently Communications Director at the recently formed Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI). Læreplanen på Emnekart: Nye muligheter for alle 2006-03-29 2006-03-29 14:30:00 2006-03-29 15:00:00 Utdanningsdirektoratet arbeider nå med en løsning der de nye læreplanene representeres ved hjelp av emnekart. I dette foredraget vil vi beskrive de mulighetene løsningen åpner for med hensyn til kobling, sammensetning og presentasjon av informasjon i skolesektoren. Non-profit sector The "business" sector containing unions and other not-for-profit member organizations, charities, NGOs, etc. Integrating Multiple Library Catalogues The Royal Library in Copenhagen has at least eight different systematic catalogues. With the digitization of older records, a need arises to be able to perform integrated searches across different catalogues. This presentation describes how Topic Maps has so far been employed to achieve this across three different systems. 2006-03-29 2006-03-29 15:00:00 2006-03-29 14:30:00 Lyytinen Olli Olli Lyytinen is one of the lead developers of Wandora information management system being developed in Grip Studios Interactive. His main field of study is semantic web technologies, especially topic map based information management and publishing and he has participated in several projects utilizing large-scale topic map based information management. Topic Maps in Library Science 2008::06 Topic Maps in Library Science This tutorial explains the relationship between Topic Maps and concepts that are of central importance to librarians and library scientists. It assumes familiarity with the basic concepts of Topic Maps equivalent to that gained by attending the tutorial Understanding Topic Maps. Among the topics explored are metadata (including MARC and Dublin Core), thesauri and subject classification systems (such as LCSH and SKOS), Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), and the role of Topic Maps in digital libraries. Someone once posed the rhetorical question whether librarians can save the world (from infoglut). The answer suggested by this tutorial is yes - provided they learn how to apply the power of Topic Maps! 13 2008-04-02 16:00:00 2008-04-02 13:00:00 3 Learn about the relationship between Topic Maps and concepts that are of central importance to librarians and library scientists. Someone once asked whether librarians can save the world (from infoglut). The answer suggested by this tutorial is: Yes, provided they learn how to apply the power of Topic Maps! Automated Classification Topic Maps and Automated Classification 2007-03-21 11:05:00 The main obstacle to the use of Topic Maps is the cost of the intellectual effort required to construct and maintain the topic map, and automation is the obvious solution to this. Applications of automated classification to Topic Maps and the natural language processing techniques that can be used are described and evaluated. Advice on comparison and selection of tools is given, together with some real-life examples of the use of automated classification to create topic maps. 2007-03-21 11:40:00 2007-03-21 Accepted Norges Rikskringkasting NRK Norway Evident 2010::05 Ontopia: Introduction 2 Ontopia: Introduction 2 2010-04-14 16:00:00 The Ontopia tutorial teaches how to use the Ontopia product to build Topic Maps-based applications of all kinds. It consists of two parts: a half-day introduction to Ontopia for non-developers, followed by a half-day introduction for developers. The last half-day builds on the first. The second half provides an overview of the Ontopia API, the tolog query language, and the Navigator Framework in sufficient to enable participants to build their own Topic Maps-based web applications. The Ontopia tutorial teaches how to use the Ontopia product to build Topic Maps-based applications of all kinds. It consists of two parts: a half-day introduction to Ontopia for non-developers, followed by a half-day introduction for developers. The last half-day builds on the first. The second half provides an overview of the Ontopia API, the tolog query language, and the Navigator Framework in sufficient to enable participants to build their own Topic Maps-based web applications. 1 2010-04-14 13:00:00 3 Sponsor 1 Subordinate Role Type Johannesen Alexander +47 94485294 Alexander Johannesen is a consultant who wrangles and deals with all things web-related, from large metadata collections, information modelling and Topic Maps, to information architecture, user-centred design and natural philosophy. Johannesen has more than 18 years experience in the IT industry, ranging from AI (yes, not everything is IA) in the security industry to user interface design big and small to development of enterprise management systems of various sizes, plus a good stint at the National Library of Australia trying to make knowledge potions work. He's an Topic Maps evangelist, a preacher of KISS and UCD, and a usurper of good mocha coffees everywhere. He blogs, writes articles, hold presentations and general waffle on about semantic modeling, philosophy, the human side of technology design, and design processes. He lives haphazardly in Oslo with three kids, a wife and a untuned piano, plays drums and percussion at the neighbors mercy, and loves Monteverdi and baroque music. 2007::02 Build a Topic Map Build a Topic Map 1 2007-03-20 16:00:00 Many potential Topic Maps enthusiasts give up before completing their first useful topic map. They are stopped by issues like confusion over advanced Topic Maps concepts, the lack of a defined process for constructing a topic map, and the tedium of authoring topic maps using XTM or LTM syntax. This tutorial will get you past all of these obstacles and more. Under the direction of the instructor, you will build a realistic topic map from scratch using a topic map editor. More importantly, you will leave this session with the skills and confidence that you need to build many more. 2007-03-20 13:00:00 Svein Ølnes Vanderbilt University Tveit Lars Director for Competition and Development Mr. Tveit currently holds the position as Director for Competition and development at the City of Bergen in Norway. Before joining City of Bergen, Mr. Tveit has 15 years experience from private sector. Leading positions in Xerox corporation, Frydenbø group, and Bravida ICT. Major areas of expertise is directed towards organisational development, Information Technology, business strategy. Has datatype Ordinal A property that captures the order of some event or other subject within a particular context. 4 Bethina Beilegaard +47 22 36 48 92 Research Center for Environmental Health Helmholtz Zentrum München, GmbH Ingolstädter Landstraße 1 D-85764 Neuherberg Germany Marketing sponsor 4 Wright Alex Alex Wright is an information architect at the New York Times and the author of _Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages_. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon.com, Harvard Magazine and the Christian Science Monitor, among others. Alex has led information architecture engagements for The Long Now Foundation, California Digital Library, Harvard University, IBM, Microsoft, Rollyo and Sun Microsystems, among others. He maintains a personal Web site at "http://www.alexwright.org/":http://www.alexwright.org/. +1-415-640-6585 Contains Domain Belongs to (domain) A binary relationship between some subject and the domain to which it belongs. Gold sponsor 2 Reidar Bratsberg +47 91136627 Partner Reidar Bratsberg installed his first web server in 1994, and has been working with web publishing since. He is co-founder of the Oslo baseddevelopment company Ravn Webveveriet. He is now working almost exclusively with consultancy and development of web publishing systems based on Topic Maps, with emphasis on interoperability of educational web sites and e-learning. Cappelen Damm Mariboes gate 13 0183 Oslo Norway Korea Korea Norge.no Ramalho José Carlos Mr. José Carlos Ramalho has been working with XML and related technologies since 1995. He is a regular speaker at XML conferences. He chairs the Portuguese XML conference every year. Currently he is leading 3 national projects for the Portuguese government regarding Digital Preservation, Digital Archives and E-Commerce. Y-12 National Security Complex TM2008: Tutorial Day Wednesday April 2 6 2008-04-02 Making Waves Christian Krohgs gt. 60 N-0186 Oslo Norway Requested 5 years of Topic Map implementation: Lessons learned 5 years of Topic Map implementation 2007-03-21 10:30:00 2007-03-21 Lessons learned from experience gained building a major topic for the US Internal Revenue Service, the government agency responsible for tax collection and tax law enforcement. Along the way, there have been some interesting surprises. 2007-03-21 11:05:00 This presentation will focus on lessons learned from almost six years of building and maintaining a major topic map as a contractor to a national governement agency. The topic map and the methodology used to produced it have evolved continuously. Along the way, there have been some interesting surprises. The most challenging part of this application is that we are not permitted to change any existing practices or procedures in the agency's information creation and management procedures. We have used a bottom-up approach that enables us to extract, integrate, and revise information emanating from source documents over which we have no control or influence. Topic mapping is used as a design principle to aggregate all information available about given subjects. It is not (yet) used to interchange information between applications. Some of the strict distinctions between topic names, occurrences, associations have been blurred. Some documents (for example, forms) are considered both sources for occurrences and topics. Another example is the distinction between associated topics and occurrences. For the sake of presentation, related topics are displayed as if they were occurrences. We started naturally to exploit index markers as input for the topic map. But we had to change our approach because of side effects due to integrating many indexes, namely that the use of indexes produced a topic map that the customer did not like, with too many topics, too many distinctions without differences, and suboptimal usability. We switched to using the section headers as sources for topic names, and we added a revision mechanism to transform them into strings suitable for direct use of topic names. The approach we are using is a constant monitoring of what we get by extracting information from documents that customer is constantly updating and then tweaking the results. We have implemented mechanisms to revise and edit the integrated information, and this mechanism feeds the automatic process of building the topic map. The tweaks are always evolving, and their effects must be monitored. The data that drive the tweaking mechanism are maintained independently of the documents. A new requirement has arisen: keeping track of the way the topic map is built, to be able to account for the existence of every individual topic and association between topic. The questions we have to account for include: where does this topic come from? Has this topic been deleted and what was the reason for it? In order to be able to answer this kind of questions, we have devised a new model and new tools that provide us with this information. Why not a Topic Map? 2007-03-21 09:00:00 Why not, indeed! For a technology that started out to be a way of merging indexes, Topic Maps have come a long way. Knowledge engineering, navigation of complex documentation, sharing of educational experiences, planning for government or for manufacturing, knowledge preservation, and security analysis are just a few of the directions TMs have moved. New tools to support TMs are under development, and the future looks bright! 2007-03-21 10:40:00 2007-03-21 Height Opening Keynote TM2008: Day 2 Opening plenary 2008-04-04 09:00:00 2008-04-04 10:30:00 Hotel 000000008 000000006 000000009 000000007 Musica migrans - Mapping the Movement of Migrant Musicians Musica migrans 2008-04-04 The goal of the historical research project _Musica migrans_ is to capture the migration and travel paths of 19th century German speaking musicians in the countries of Eastern Europe. The main focus is on gathering information about lesser known musicians of this epoch. The goal is to reveal all the hitherto uncharted relationships between people, places and institutions, collect them together in a topic map, present them in a timeline, and thereby gain new insights into the history of these communities and schools of practice. In the first stage, 25 researchers from Eastern Europe are collecting information on 1,250 musicians using a Topic Maps-based colloborative web application. For each musician information from the following categories is collected: names in different languages, dates and places of birth and death, nationality, places of study and work, and all (known) performances and references. Due to the subject-centricity of the knowledge model, all co-occurrences of two different persons (at the same point) will be gathered at one topic and hidden relationships between the musicians will come to the surface. The portal is implemented in PHP using the (extended) QuaaxTM engine and uses AJAX technologies to provide a rich user experience. The requirements of the portal required the extension of the engine with features such as a full-text index and and XTM parser/serialiser. A web service interface allows the integration of the portal information into other applications by requesting Topic Maps fragments. The portal was first released in January 2008 and a production version is planned for March 2008. This presentation describes the background to the project, the reasons why Topic Maps was chosen as the underlying technology, and the architecture of the portal itself, which can serve as a model for similar activities in the field of cultural heritage. This application captures the migration paths of 19th century German speaking musicians in Eastern Europe. Hitherto uncharted relationships between people, places and institutions are presented in a timeline revealing new insights. The use of Topic Maps and the portal architecture can serve as a model for similar cultural heritage projects. 2008-04-04 11:00:00 2008-04-04 11:30:00 Description 6 60 Date (to) Sponsor type 000000001 000000002 000000004 000000005 Pharo Nils +47 90515862 Tracks The (maximum) number of tracks on a particular conference day. 10 Redpill Linpro Vitaminveien 1A, Storo, Oslo Vestlandsforsking 6851 Sogndal Norway Randveig Skageng +47 93227802 Track 2 TM2007: Track 2 (cont) 2007-03-21 13:30:00 2007-03-21 16:00:00 Note 60 3 A note about some subject. Organization committee Organization committee (Topic Maps 2007) 0rganization committee (Topic Maps 2007) TM2009: Day 1 Closing plenary Closing plenary 2009-03-19 15:20:00 2009-03-19 16:00:00 Mailing list 000000005 000000006 Birte Fallet +47 90124649 Birte Fallet is a Master student in Library and Information Science at Oslo University College. Previously she has worked as both a gardener and a saleswomen. Morpheus Postbus 240 6200 AE Maastricht The Netherlands Conference centre 000000009 000000006 000000008 000000007 A building whose primary purpose is to host conferences, conventions, etc. Bente Skåret Webredaktør Pidgin English for Topic Maps Pidgin English for Topic Maps Knowledge Engineering 2007-03-21 11:40:00 2007-03-21 This paper introduces a new generation of the AsTMa= notation which has evolved from earlier versions based on usage patterns from novices and casual users alike. These experiences have shaped a low-barrier language which is optimized for human-centric encoding of semantically rich Topic Maps content. 1.1 Pidgin English One objective in the development of AsTMa= was to provide a textual language, which can mimick natural language to a certain extent and so enable non-technical users to express assertions about their knowledge domain. Accordingly, knowledge fragments can be organized in a themed, block-oriented way. That supports effective long-term management of highly irregular information as it encourages to move away from the necessity to manage a high number of microscopic statements. As the language builds on a cleaned-up variant of AsTMa 1.x, we present this first. At this level, the new language is quite comparable to the future ISO standard 13250-6 "Compact Topic Maps Syntax (CTM)" [1]. More innovative (at least in a Topic Maps context) is the use of "natural-language" features. The following block Paul-McCartney isa person and has born-date "18 June 1942". Paul-McCartney plays piano and is-member-of The-Beatles, which isa pop-group and which originated in liverpool. leads into a topic map with the topic "Paul-McCartney" being registered as an instance of "person" with an occurrence of type "born-date" which carries a date value. Also "piano", "The-Beatles", "pop-group" and "liverpool" with the appropriate associations are added.Further features are the detection of data values, a templating infrastructure to reduce syntactic noise, a telex style to keep AsTMa= code on a single line and a consistent subject identification syntax for topics. 1.2 AsTMa? In a further step the language is generalized by allowing variables as interrogative pronouns in certain places. This results in AsTMa?, a query language which assists non-technical users to retrieve information from topic maps.The query $who isa person is internally translated into the TMQL [2] expression select $who where $who isa person The AsTMa? processor answers such an query with a more verbose answer than a TMQL engine would. A result set consists of several topic map fragments encoded in AsTMa=. Example answer: Paul-McCartney isa person John-Lennon isa person [...] The query results can then be merged into the query statement the user provided. Such responses can then easily be used in a text-to-speech environment or as input for other topic maps. References 1. ISO/IEC 13250-6 Topic Maps - Compact Syntax (CTM), editors working draft 2006-07-28. International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland. 2. ISO/IEC 18048 Topic Maps - Query Language(TMQL), draft 2005-02-18. International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland. 2007-03-21 11:05:00 This presentation describes an alternative, human friendly syntax for authoring and querying topic maps. The assertional language, named AsTMa=, is designed to lower the entrance barrier for non-technical users to create and manage topic map content. While it follows the Topic Maps paradigm, it also adopts a style which mimicks natural language. To extract information from a Topic Maps repository, the simple query language AsTMa? is defined as a syntactic variant of AsTMa=. City Linked Data in theory and Practice Linked Data in theory and Practice 2010-04-15 14:15:00 Datadeling implementert på rekordtid mellom NRK Skole og Naturfag.no ved hjelp av GREP, emnekart og Subj3ct.com. 2010-04-15 Datadeling implementert på rekordtid mellom NRK Skole og Naturfag.no ved hjelp av GREP, emnekart og Subj3ct.com. 2010-04-15 13:45:00 Hannes Niederhausen Hannes Niederhausen studied computer science and linguistics at the University of Leipzig. His diploma thesis is about the development of a visual TMCL editor at the Topic Maps Lab. Since June 2009 he has been working at the Topic Maps Lab. <a href="http://www.topicmapslab.de/people/Hannes_Niederhausen?locale=en">Full bio at topicmapslab.de</a> Dipl. Inf. Bouvet Sandakerveien 24c (D11), Oslo Name Mosaker Boge Lidunn Acting Head of Communcation Acting Head of Communications and have responsibility for communication work and dissemination of research at Nofima Marin, Nofima Marked and Nofima Ingrediens. Also have responsibility for nofima.no. TM2008: Day 2 Track 1 Enterprise Architecture 2008-04-04 11:00:00 2008-04-04 12:30:00 Resource 000000002 000000001 000000013 000000003 000000004 An information resource. The common supertype of document, mailing list, etc. Questpoint Gjerdrums vei 12 N-0484 Oslo Norway Is hierarchical Lars Helgeland Tutorial 000000280 000000285 000000211 000000279 000000284 000000212 000000278 000000287 000000213 000000283 000000282 000000210 000000277 000000199 000000281 000000286 Pinchuk Rani Project Manager Rani Pinchuk is the team leader of the Space Applications Services knowledge management team. The team works on Question Answering system over Topic Maps, integration of Earth Observation data and domain knowledge, federation of data from space experiments and crisis management related projects. In all these projects, Topic Maps is used as an underlying technology. Rani Pinchuk is also active in the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3 and is currently a co-author of TMQL. With relation to Topic Maps, Rani has presented in the past in the following events: TMRA’06, Leipzig, 2006: TopiWriter - Integrating Topic Maps with Word Processor and Toma - TMQL, TMCL, TMML. TMRA’08, Leipzig, 2008: A case for XTM 3.0. TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT, Prague, 2009: Integration of Earth Observation Data and Domain Knowledge Using Topic Maps. TMRA’09: Automated Focus Extraction for Question Answering over Topic Maps andSemantic Integration of Relational Data Sources With Topic Maps. <a href="http://www.topicmapslab.de/people/Rani_Pinchuk?locale=en">Bio at topicmapslab.de</a> Advanced Archive The address of an archive, such as that of a mailing list. Oh Sam Gyun Sam Oh is a professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea. He is Chairman of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34, head of the Korean delegation to ISO TC46 and a DCMI board member. He teaches courses such as database design, web database design, designing XML and metadata schemas, ontology modeling, information architecture, and designing knowledge management systems. His main research interest is in the area of metadata and ontology modeling, particulary using Topic Maps. He has extensive experiences in consulting companies and government sectors regarding design of metadata and ontology. He received his Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from Syracuse University, NY USA in 1995 and worked for Information School of University of Washington for 4 years (1994-1998) prior to joining the current post. Vatant Bernard Kivelä Aki Aki Kivelä is a co-founder of Grip Studios Interactive Inc and has been working as a software and new media enterpreneuer for 10 years. Recently Kivelä has worked on large-scale internet publishing projects and WWW advertising. Full text The full text of a document, such as a call, news item, etc. Scope note: The contents are interpreted as Textile markup. 10 78 Topic Maps or Search? – Another Religious War? 2009-03-19 11:45:00 2009-03-19 2009-03-19 11:15:00 For most topics there is no lack of information, but rather a lack of precision. Useful knowledge all too easily drowns. Is it really the case that the degree of effort involved in structuring our knowledge universe is justified by the usefulness of the result - or is it rather the case that search technology is now so good that topics and relationships can be inferred directly? FAST was acquired by Microsoft one year ago. What are we working on now? How much have we achieved in terms of understanding semantics, and not least: what promise does the future hold? _Warning:_ This presentasjon can lead to itchy fingers, improved work moral and significantly reduced need to waste time. TM2007: Opening plenary Opening plenary 2007-03-21 10:15:00 2007-03-21 09:00:00 Opening plenary TM2008: Day 1 Opening plenary 2008-04-03 09:00:00 2008-04-03 10:30:00 Committee Leader Leader Leader of Finland TM2006: Closing plenary Closing plenary 2006-03-29 18:00:00 2006-03-29 15:30:00 Web site Company Rysstad Rune +47 93050694 Rune Rysstad is a System Developer working for Avenir (an EDB ASA subsidiary). He has worked in the consulting business since 1995, mostly web oriented and on different platforms. He has lately been working with Microsoft's .NET platform and related "server" applications like MOSS2007 and EPiServer. Most recently he has been been planning and implementing Topic Map projects in MOSS2007. Rune has a Master of Informatics Technology (Cand. Scient.) degree from the University of Oslo. Social event (Myrens kjøkken) TM2010: Social event 2009-03-18 23:00:00 2009-03-18 17:00:00 Topic Maps 2010 The Fourth International Topic Maps Conference 2010 2010-04-15 The complete program is now published. Please join us for two days of tutorials, case studies and technical discussions. Meet fellow users, and talk to some of the world’s leading experts. The technology is more mature, and we finally have some good examples of <b>Linked Topic Maps</b>, which is also the main conference theme this year. Several tutorials and presentations will show you how to do <b>Linked Data</b> with Topic Maps. What Linked Data doesn't define or provide for is the ability to explore a given subject and where data about it can be found. The conference will show you how to get to <b>The Subject Centric Web</b>. A transition from a web of linked documents to a web of subjects and data. The conference is hosted by <b>The Norwegian Computer Society</b>, who have published "information about the conference in norwegian":http://dataforeningen.no/topic-maps-2010 Linked Topic Maps 2010-04-14 Germany Field Type TM2010: Tutorial Day Wednesday April 14 2010-04-14 4 University College Oslo Group 000000004 000000010 000000008 000000001 000000009 000000003 Sponsor of Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsor(s) Ressursnettverk for eforvaltning Document 000000002 000000007 000000010 000000012 000000001 000000008 000000011 000000009 Marketing committee (Topic Maps 2008) Marketing committee Henri Melger +31 621224326 ATLAS Elektronik Sebaldsbruecker Heerstr. 235 D-28309 Bremen Germany Logo New York Times Wednesday March 21 TM2007: Conference Day 3 2007-03-21 Maud Salen 180 Hierarchies, Networks, and the Web that Wasn't 2008-03-03 10:00:00 2008-03-03 2008-03-03 09:10:00 For most of us who work on the Internet, the Web is all we have ever really known. It's almost impossible to imagine a world without browsers, URLs and HTTP. Today, however, developers are increasingly grappling with some of the Web's inherent limitations, especially the document-centric "page" metaphor that often forces information architects to organize content in terms of documents rather than in terms of underlying concepts. This is the precisely the problem that Topic Maps tries to solve; but in the years leading up to Tim Berners-Lee's world-changing invention, a few visionary information scientists were exploring remarkably similar ideas, developing prototype systems that often bore little resemblance to the Web as we know it today. By mining the history of these promising early experiments, we can find a largely forgotten heritage of thought that is surprisingly consilient with the philosophy of Topic Maps. The presentation will focus on the pioneering work of Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, and Doug Engelbart, forebears of the 1960s and 1970s like Ted Nelson, Andries van Dam, and the Xerox PARC team, and more recent forays like Brown's Intermedia system. We'll trace the heritage of these systems and the solutions they suggest to present day Web quandaries, in hopes of finding clues to the future of the Web - and Topic Maps - in the recent technological past. Acclaimed author Alex Wright traces the heritage that led up to Tim Berners-Lee’s invention of the World Wide Web, exploring the ideas of the people that inspired him and looking for clues to the future of the Web – and Topic Maps – in the recent technological past. Royal Danish Library Zero or more Unrequited Love and the Ontology of Duckburg Did you know that Donald Duck worked_as the museum guard’s fourth assistant in “Lost in the Andes”? Or that his friend Gyro Gearloose really ISA chicken? This presentation provides interesting insights into both the ontology of Duckburg and what is involved in creating your very own topic map. 2008-04-04 2008-04-04 11:30:00 Birte, Kjersti and Asbjørn are Masters students in the Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science at University College Oslo. Six months ago they hadn’t heard of Topic Maps. Since then they have created four topic maps between them, on subjects as diverse as Open Access to scientific and scholarly information, percussion instruments, and the world of Donald Duck and friends. In this presentation they recount some of what they learned, the tools they used, and the processes involved in creating an ontology. It is a story of the problems posed by unrequited love, the challenge of describing family relationships in a world where there are no parents, the difficulty of handling grown-ups who swap occupations from one day to the next, and why, whatever else he might be, Donald is not a species. But it is also about the satisfaction to be gained from mastering a new technology, the ease of actually creating a topic map, how there’s nothing like a bit of hands-on to help the concepts fall into place, and how the whole thing can become addictive once you understand what an actually ontology is and have a few basic guidelines to follow. The goal of the presentation is to convince you that topic mapping is not that hard, that it can be a lot of fun – and that everyone ought to go straight home and start creating their own topic map. 2008-04-04 12:00:00 Connecting Content and Business Concepts 2008-04-03 12:30:00 2008-04-03 12:00:00 2008-04-03 An emerging trend is to use Topic Maps to capture an organization’s business processes and to structure its information and knowledge around the business concepts thus defined. This approach is illustrated by three solutions deployed during 2007 for Wilh. Wilhelmsen, Norway Post, and the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training. Many organisations have begun to embrace Topic Maps as a way to organise content. The typical approach is to classify information assets in a topic map using a controlled vocabulary or taxonomy, which is then used to retrieve information. But it is possible to go further than this. An emerging trend is to focus on using the topic map to capture the actual business processes of the organization and use the related business concepts as the organising principle of information. This new approach is described in the context of three solutions that were deployed during 2007: the combined intra- and internet solution at Wilh. Wilhelmsen, a leading global provider of maritime services; the intranet solution PIA at Norway Post, one of Norway’s largest employers; and the business intelligence solution Skoleporten at the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training (UDIR). The presentation shows how a focus on business concepts and processes enables historical auditing, preservation of corporate memory, and contextualisation of information delivery. It also shows how using Topic Maps for capturing business process information can feed back into the processes themselves, acting a kind of real-time corporate information glue, as well as a paradigm for information access. Lene Gulbrandsen Bakgrunn som grafisk formgiver og erfaring som internett-konsulent fra 1996. Ansatt i Bouvet siden 1997. Har vært innom illustrasjon, grafisk design, webdesign, videre til interaksjonsdesign, konseptutvikling og prosessledelse. Studerer sosiologi ved siden av konsulenttilværelsen. 2008::11 Querying Topic Maps with TMQL Querying Topic Maps with TMQL 2008-04-02 09:00:00 2008-04-02 12:00:00 The Topic Maps Query Language (the “SQL” of Topic Maps) is designed to enable efficient access to semantic content inside a Topic Maps-based store. This tutorial, by one of the editors, starts by introducing the more conventional language features and then demonstrates how applications can benefit from TMQL in general. The Topic Maps Query Language ("SQL" of Topic Maps) is designed to enable efficient access to semantic content inside a Topic Maps based store. This tutorial, by the editor of the TMQL standard, starts by introducing the more conventional language features and then demonstrates how applications can benefit from TMQL in general. It goes on to cover more advanced topics such as atomification, topic addressing, variables and bindings, and association predicates, before turning to content generation via tables, XML and maps. The last part will show how TMQL fits into the TM standards landscape and how the semantics is defined. Potential implementors also can get an opportunity to be walked through existing code of a prototype implementation. The main emphasis will be on the language features themselves, so the tutorial is mainly addressed towards application and infrastructure developers who have a sound familiarity with the Topic Maps Data Model. 6 6 Supporter of Supported by Supported by Naturfag.no Naturfagsenteret Postboks 1099 Blindern 0317 Oslo Norway Øystein Sørborg +47 22854409 Øystein Sørborg has worked with web-based learning in natural science education since 1999. He joined the Norwegian Centre for Science Education in 2004 and has been involved in the development of "www.naturfag.no":http://www.naturfag.no - a web site for natural science teachers in the compulsory school and in upper secondary education and training. An important role of this website is to connect learning resources to the competence aims ín Grep, the Topic Maps-based National Curriculum database. Nepal Supertype/subtype Supertype of Subtype of Gasparini Andrea +47 90846905 Awaiting proposal Michihiko Setogawa Michihiko Setogawa is Senior Engineer at Hitachi Systems, a software integration company. He has been engaged in the research and development of the knowledge processing technology. Roger Dols +31 6 41188086 Roger Dols is an independent ICT-consultant and researcher in the field of ICT-strategy and knowledge management. He also gives guest lectures at Zuyd University and presentations about Topic Maps at events such as XML Holland. His research activities focus on ICT-strategy in knowledge intensive and innovative environments. As an independent consultant Roger cooperates closely with Morpheus software. Together with Morpheus he works on the FP7-funded research project idSpace which focuses capturing creativity and knowledge in collaborative and distributed product innovation processes. Topic Maps play an important role in this project. Other projects he did are mainly about knowledge management, eLearning and document management. Other activities include membership of the city council of Heerlen in the Netherlands and writing articles for the Dutch web magazine _De Afgrond_. Moore Graham Graham Moore is the founder of NetworkedPlanet. He is co-editor of the XTM 1.0 XML Topic Maps standard and IS013250-1 and IS013250-2 (Topic Map Data Model and Syntax), he is also co-editor of TMCL (Topic Map Constraint Language). Graham has worked for 8 years in the areas of information, content and knowledge management as a developer, researcher and consultant. He has held leading roles as CTO of STEP, Vice President Research & Development empolis GmbH and Chief Scientist Ontopia AS. He has been responsible for the development of knowledge management products including K42 Topic Map Engine, X2X Link Management Engine and e:kms knowledge suite. <a href="http://www.topicmapslab.de/people/Graham_Moore?locale=en">Bio at topicmapslab.de</a> Track 2 TM2009: Day 1 Track 2b 2009-03-19 10:40:00 2009-03-19 11:45:00 Search dialog Language 000000001 000000003 000000004 Den sømløse kommune Den sømløse kommune - fra visjon til virkelighet 2006-03-29 12:00:00 Flere tjenester og mer informasjon fra det offentlige til publikum skaper nye behov for standardisering og samhandling. Emnekart er i ferd med å få "fotfeste" i offentlig forvaltning og er en god kandidat for å skape en sømløs offentlig forvaltning på publikums premisser. 2006-03-29 11:30:00 2006-03-29 TM2008: Day 1 Track 1a Information Integration 2008-04-03 12:30:00 2008-04-03 11:00:00 Room 000000009 000000011 000000010 000000008 Berg Truls +47 90026806 Hänninen Heimo Heimo Hänninen has over 15 years' experience in the IT and information processing area. He has principally worked in the field of information systems and knowledge technologies for telecom, aerospace and other industries, and for governmental organizations. Currently he works for Nokia Siemens Networks on their Topic Maps-driven portal project. He became an ontoholic several years ago and fears the condition is incurable. He represents Finland on the ISO Topic Maps standardization working group (JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3). His particular interest is the application of knowledge integration services within enterprise architectures in order to make business processes more adaptive and capable of reusing knowledge assets. +358 456 703329 The Shape of Topic Maps to Come 2006-03-29 2006-03-29 17:00:00 2006-03-29 16:15:00 In which "Mr. Topic Maps" sums up the conference, thanks the speakers, informs about the current state of the standardization process, waxes poetic about the future, plugs his forthcoming book, drops indelicate hints about the Norwegian National Knowledge Base, and otherwise does what pleases him, until it is time for the bit everyone has been waiting for... Ragnar Bøe Rådgiver Logica Strømsveien 102 Postboks 6432, Etterstad 0605 Oslo One or more Zero or one Understanding Topic Maps 2008::01 Understanding Topic Maps 42 1 2008-04-02 12:00:00 A comprehensive introduction that explains what topic maps are and what kinds of problems they address. The tutorial covers both basic constructs (topics, associations and occurrences) and more advanced topics, such as scope and identity. It concludes with an extensive review of real world Topic Maps applications. 2008-04-02 09:00:00 This tutorial provides a solid introduction to Topic Maps for anyone who is a newcomer to the subject. It covers what topic maps are and what kinds of problems they can solve. The basic Topic Maps constructs (topics, associations and occurrences) are explained using the simple yet powerful TAO Model. More advanced topics, such as scope and identity, are also covered. The tutorial concludes with an extensive review of real world Topic Maps applications. Enterprise Search, Faceted Navigation and Subject-Centric Portals Enterprise Search and Subject-Centric Portals 2008-04-04 12:00:00 2008-04-04 This presentation, based on a real-world deployed application, demonstrates how to build large-scale enterprise solutions using the concept of Enterprise Knowledge Maps. It explores how to expose preexisting data sources as topic maps, integration with a commercial faceted search engine, and the creation subject-centric portlets and portal pages. This presentation demonstrates how to build enterprise solutions based on the integration of a portal infrastructure, a faceted search engine and topic maps. Specifically we explore how to: (1) expose various data sources as topic maps and integrate them into the "enterprise knowledge map"; (2) derive facets and "records" from the knowledge map; (3) use a commercial faceted search engine; (4) create subject-centric portlets and portal pages; (5) integrate the search and portal infrastructure. The presentation is based on real life projects and the results of many architectural and implementation experiments. 2008-04-04 12:30:00 Enterprise Knowledge Maps Enterprise Knowledge Maps: Towards subject-centric computing This presentation explores the idea of “knowledge middleware” which “maps” enterprise information. This mapping supports a new kind of user experience: the ability to quickly find required information. The enterprise knowledge map provides semantic mediation and a technical infrastructure for unifying information from various sources. It drastically simplifies implementing the user interaction layer, including subject centric resources, faceted navigation, search and RSS. 2007-03-21 12:15:00 The ability to find the "right" information is crucial for making good decisions. To achieve this, a unified view on all enterprise information assets is required. Unification should be achieved in respect to several dimensions: * Structured vs. unstructured information * Static vs. dynamically generated documents * Subject vs. document centric resources In this presentation we explore the idea of adding "knowledge middleware" in the form of a topic map which "maps" enterprise information. This mapping provides a new user experience: the ability to quickly find required information. We investigate the integration between the enterprise knowledge map and the user interaction layer and we explore how the knowledge map can be integrated with Enterprise RSS, the portal infrastructure, faceted navigation and full text search. In traditional implementations each component of the user interaction layer (RSS, portal, faceted navigation/search) can directly communicate with data sources. We try to prove that the introduction of "knowledge middleware" helps to build a much more coherent and robust knowledge management infrastructure. In the case of RSS, for example, the enterprise knowledge map enables us to generate subject specific RSS feeds. The user chooses which topics are important to him or so, and RSS feeds are then automatically generated based on the user's preferences. This approach makes it possible to leverage existing RSS software and at the same time enjoy the important benefits of subject-centric computing. An enterprise knowledge map drastically simplifies implementing faceted navigation and search. The existence of a knowledge map helps to solve the findability problem, thus supporting a rich user experience. We demonstrate how existing faceted navigation and full text search solutions can be integrated with such a knowledge map and the benefits of doing so. In this presentation we also compare traditional portal infrastructures with an infrastructure based on an enterprise knowledge map. The concepts of dashboards and 360° view are discussed from the perspective of subject-centric computing. We also explore the role of the enterprise knowledge map in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and discuss how a knowledge map can improve "traditional" SOA and how SOA can be used to create and evolve enterprise knowledge maps. Finally we touch on the importance of knowledge management business process and knowledge management teams for successful implementation of enterprise knowledge maps. 2007-03-21 2007-03-21 11:40:00 Topic Maps Lab, University of Leipzig Topic Maps Lab, University of Leipzig Short name Association role type Asbjørn Risan Asbjørn Risan is a Master student in Library and Information Science at Oslo University College. Arnar Lundesgaard Weinberger David The Wall Street Journal called him a "marketing guru." He's the co-author of the _The Cluetrain Manifesto_, the bestseller that cut through the hype and told business what the Web was really about. His latest book, _Small Pieces Loosely Joined_ has been published to rave reviews hailing it as the first book to put the Internet in its deepest context. He's been a frequent commentator on National Public Radio's _All Things Considered_. He's written for the "Fortune 500" of business and tech journals, including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Miami Herald, The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Guardian, and Wired. Journalists from The New York Times, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, InformationWeek, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and many more turn to him for insight. He is a columnist for Knowledge Management World and il sole 24 ore, and writes an influential business technology newsletter and a well-known daily weblog, Joho the Blog. He was a philosophy professor for six years, a comedy writer for Woody Allen for seven years, a humor columnist for Oregon's major daily newspaper, a dot-com entrepreneur before most people knew what a home page was, and a strategic marketing consultant to household-name multinationals and the most innovative startups. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and is currently a Fellow at the prestigious Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His book _Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder_ is being published by Times Books in May 2007. He is also one of the most entertaining and acclaimed presenters around. Dr. David Weinberger turns this remarkable range of experience and knowledge to the most important question facing every business today: How is technology changing the way my employees, partners and customers are putting themselves together, and how is that changing the basics of my business? +1 617 738 8323 Creating Topic Maps 2008::02 Creating Topic Maps 2008-04-02 16:00:00 Many potential Topic Maps enthusiasts give up before completing their first useful topic map. They are stopped by issues like confusion over concepts, the lack of a defined process for constructing a topic map, and the tedium of authoring topic maps using XTM. This tutorial will get you past all of these obstacles and inspire you to go home and create your own first topic map. In a highly interactive session, you will discover how to use LTM, the Linear Topic Maps notation, a simple text-based syntax that is guaranteed chemically free of angle brackets! You will also learn the principles of ontology-driven editing and how to use the free tool Ontopoly. And you will gain insight into how topic maps can be created automatically. 2008-04-02 13:00:00 Never written your own topic map? Thwarted by conceptual muddle, the lack of a defined process for constructing a topic map, and the tedium of authoring topic maps using XTM? This tutorial will get you past all of these obstacles and inspire you to go home and create your own first topic map. 25 1 Visions for a Topic Mapped Library Our challenge to Alex was this: If you were given the power and the resources to shape and run a national library today, what would you do differently with Topic Maps? In this thought-provoking response he gives his imagination free reign and asks whether librarians are ready for such a paradigm shift. 2008-04-03 2008-04-03 17:30:00 I was issued a challenge the other day: If you were given the power and the resources to shape and run a national library today, what would you do differently with Topic Maps? First, in order to understand Topic Maps and why I'm so keen on it, you need to understand how Topic Maps and its data model is closer to human cognition and epistemological ideals than what we're normally used to: relational databases, the notion of an atomic metadata record, the thinking that overlapping collections are hard, the construct of a book as an atomic object, the thought of marshaled information viewpoints (guides vs. the reference librarian), the thinking that taxomatic classification schemes work in a rigid process, etc. etc. How do we know that what we're doing ensures that our goals are met? Is our thinking working for us, alongside us, behind us, against us? Our task as librarians always has been, and probably always will be, to both to preserve knowledge and encourage its use. This apparent dichotomy lies on the border between the "collection mentality" and the "education mentality"; some librarians have only one of these, some both (and in a few rare exceptions, neither!), and then there are various mixes of the two. In my view, there is no dichotomy: they are two sides of the very same coin, and I suspect that the artificial divide comes from technological barriers that I believe Topic Maps can shatter. The challenge of Topic Maps in libraries is very dear to me, because one of the primary reasons I started in the library sector in the first place was to pursue my passion for knowledge management, identity control, relationship management and - perhaps most importantly! - to help protect human cultural heritage from the ignorant and unengaged. I wanted to introduce Topic Maps and serious identity control, semantic data modeling, and perhaps convert library domains into Topic Maps and merge them across today's silo mentality and limitations. Here's what Topic Maps could offer the library world: * a generic, subject-centric, associative data model; * a technology with pluggable ontology work (FRBR in a breeze); * a means and a technology to deal with serious identity control (sharing persistent identities solved); * tools for semantic mapping of collections (focusing on relationships rather than untyped values); * built-in merging and sharing of rich metadata (bringing our collection metadata out of black boxes for more diverse systems); * context-dependent scoping of said metadata (viewpoints, source control, authorizing, security); * shared global authority control (finally a model for this!); * integrated thesaurus and other classification schemes (including automatic mapping between LCSH and Dewey, for example); * communities and people (including academic circles and the open-source movement) to help with adaption and implementation; * and last but not least, systems based on open international standards that preserve for future generations the knowledge we ourselves put into our work. Here's what libraries could offer the world with Topic Maps: a proper global identity control that could establish knowledge management as a serious endeavour, authority and organizational maps that the world couldn't live without, authorized historical information and relationships we all could trust and use, standardizing ontology work across many global fields, and neutral mapping of human knowledge. No less. I know a lot of librarians agree with me, but are we ready for it? Can we handle a paradigm shift like this? 2008-04-03 17:00:00 Occurrences Occurrences Nearly ten years have passed since the first Topic Map driven web site was developed in Norway. A string of high profile public sector followed suit, and Norway is now largely perceived as the poster child of Topic Maps usage internationally. Is this notion deserved? Stian recounts how it all started, reminds us of the original vision and intent and the inherent properties of the model, and asks whether Norway has been side tracked for too long by the common misperception of Topic Maps as more or less an extensive menu for "associative" web site navigation. Nearly ten years have passed since the first Topic Map driven web site was developed in Norway. A string of high profile public sector followed suit, and Norway is now largely perceived as the poster child of Topic Maps usage internationally. Is this notion deserved? Stian recounts how it all started, reminds us of the original vision and intent and the inherent properties of the model, and asks whether Norway has been side tracked for too long by the common misperception of Topic Maps as more or less an extensive menu for "associative" web site navigation. 2010-04-15 2010-04-15 09:00:00 2010-04-15 09:40:00 Sort name Dalen Jørgen +47 41207236 Information Architect Thursday April 15 TM2010: Conference Day 1 2 2010-04-15 Committee(s) Belongs to Belongs to A relationship between som subject and another subject to which it belongs. Fixme: Change role types to owner and owned. Jon Bing Professor dr. juris Jon Bing (born 30 April 1944 in Tønsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian writer and law professor at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL), and The Juridical faculty at the University of Oslo. Bing is considered to be a pioneer in international legal information. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Stockholm and the University of Copenhagen, and is Visiting Professor at Kings College, University of London. Bing is leader of The Protection of Privacy Committee. He has been head of Norsk Filmråd 1979–81, head of Europarådet's Committee on Legal Data Processing 1981–82, head of Norsk kassettavgiftsfond 1983–85 and leader of Norsk kulturråd 1993–2000. Together with Tor Åge Bringsværd and some other students at the University in Oslo, Jon Bing started the society Aniara, a club for those interested in science fiction, and was often profiled in the media with statements about science fiction. He has brought out several books, both fiction and specialist literature. He debuted with Bringsværd in 1967 the short story collection Around the sun in a circle. Bing has written much fiction, often with good help from his friend Bringsværd. In recent years Bing has been engaged with many subjects. You can see him on TV when it's the anniversary for the first personal computer in Norway, read his answers on questions on copyright regarding digital media, and you can also meet him at the annual science fiction festival ShadowCon in Oslo. He is very outspoken in media about cases concerning ethics in technology, copyright, and the future in general. Bing is considered to be one of the nerds in the older generation. Hopmans Gabriel Gabriel is a Knowledge Engineer, and founded Morpheus Software in 1999. At the moment he is the CEO of Morpheus. Gabriel received his Master of Science degree in Kennistechnologie at University Maastricht. His masters' work focused on how (artificial) software agents can find an agreement in a voting dialogue structure. In 2005 Morpheus became Value Added Reseller of Ontopia to start projects mainly for Governmental organizations. Gabriel participates in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 WG3 as editor of CTM. In Morpheus he is now active in Topic Maps related projects for Enterprise Intelligence projects such as for Dutch Police and Tax Office. +31 (652) 091795 Microsoft Lilleakerveien 6 N-0283 Oslo Norway Infoloom, Inc. Topic Maps based application for the intellectual labyrinth The Intellectual Labyrinth 2007-03-21 14:30:00 Nowadays, people are facing a difficulty that they may get too much search results, can’t hit upon the idea of appropriate keywords and can’t fetch up what they want to know in consequence. In order to solve those problems, we developed the “Knowledge Concierge” system. It contains “systemized knowledge” which is compiled from Encyclopedia content itself with Topic Maps technology. It reflects person’s knowledge and some viewpoints in that system. 2007-03-21 14:00:00 2007-03-21 2010::04 Ontopia: Introduction 1 Ontopia: Introduction 1 The Ontopia tutorial teaches how to use the Ontopia product to build Topic Maps-based applications of all kinds. It consists of two parts: a half-day introduction to Ontopia for non-developers, followed by a half-day introduction for developers. The last half-day builds on the first. It is possible to attend only the first half. The first half provides an overview of the Ontopia product suite, showing what functionality can be found there, its architecture, and covers approaches for building applications with the suite. There is also a tutorial on how to use Ontopoly to create ontologies and maintain instance data. Prerequisites first half: - An understanding of Topic Maps 2010-04-14 12:00:00 2010-04-14 09:00:00 4 1 The Ontopia tutorial teaches how to use the Ontopia product to build Topic Maps-based applications of all kinds. It consists of two parts: a half-day introduction to Ontopia for non-developers, followed by a half-day introduction for developers. The last half-day builds on the first. It is possible to attend only the first half. The first half provides an overview of the Ontopia product suite, showing what functionality can be found there, its architecture, and covers approaches for building applications with the suite. There is also a tutorial on how to use Ontopoly to create ontologies and maintain instance data. Prerequisites first half: - An understanding of Topic Maps Victoria University of Wellington Joachim Carlsen Joachim Carlsen is an information architect and works as a consultant with Networked Planet. Until recently he has worked as a researcher and adviser for PRIO - International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. Here he gained experience with how topic maps make information architectures both socially meaningful and technically sound. In his M.Sc thesis he researched the limits of narratives, tagging and website navigation. In the 90s he worked as a TV-producer and editor. Skill level 000000003 000000001 000000002 The degree of skill necessary to perform some task or take part successfully in some course, such as a tutorial. Software Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research Ministry of Education and Research Akersgata 44, 0032 Oslo, Norway Thursday April 3 TM2008: Conference Day 1 2008-04-03 2 Session 000000234 000000235 A named part of a larger event, consisting of one or more presentations, etc. 000000216 000000225 Display name A name intended to be displayed to end-users. Used when some other name needs to be the default, e.g. because of the requirements of editing. Break 000000208 Any kind of break in an event for refreshments, networking, etc. 000000213 000000001 000000210 000000212 000000207 Silver sponsor 3 Picture Karl Johan Sæth Karl Johan Sæth is a senior Information Architect with Logica´s UX unit in Oslo, Norway. Even though he loves fishing, Karl Johan has spent most of the last 12 years developing IA and interactive concepts. he has had a love/hate relationship with Topic Maps ever since discovering their existence back in 2000. SeSam4 - Semantics for the People 2009-03-19 11:10:00 2009-03-19 In a world of many cultures and religions it's not surprising that "semantics" also takes a variety of forms. This presentation is about the Norwegian-based SESAM4 project, the goal of which is to implement, apply, evaluate and make available "semantic" solutions based on W3C specifications (RDF and OWL) and ISO standards (Topic Maps). An important part of the project is to bring together two paradigms that have up until now led independent lives, and evaluate the potential for "semantic interoperability" between the two worlds. 2009-03-19 10:40:00 Knowledge management Rolf Guescini Rolf Guescini has a background in humanistic computer science at the University of Oslo, where he worked with hypertext, markup language standards and Topic Maps. He sees the proper use of standardized semantic markup and Topic Maps as important tools for both educational purposes as well as for information structuring in general. Maicher Lutz Lutz Maicher is a researcher and teacher at the University of Leipzig, Germany. In 2001 he started working on Topic Maps, and in 2007 he finished his doctoral thesis about Autonomous Topic Maps. In 2005 Lutz established the TMRA conference series. The annual conferences take place in Leipzig, with a main focus on research in Topic Maps technologies. In 2008 he founded the Topic Maps Lab which he chairs since that. Today, the Lab is a team of around 15 researchers who continuously work on the advancement of Topic Maps technologies. The lab’s most visible flagship product is Maiana. <a href="http://www.topicmapslab.de/people/Lutz_Maicher?locale=en">Full bio at topicmapslab.de</a> Dr. regjeringen.no – where Topic Maps and Search govern the user experience Topic Maps and Search The new website for the Norwegian Government and the Ministries combines commercially available components – Web CMS, Search engine and Topic Maps engine – to create an enhanced user experience for both editors and end users. The presentation describes how the technologies mutually enhance each other’s capabilities when creating and presenting new content and 280.000 web pages of legacy content. odin.dep.no was the website of the Norwegian Government and the Ministries, containing 30.000 documents and 130.000 web pages. What the Odin team wanted initially was to upgrade our six years old content management system with a web based authoring client to get an improved editor’s user interface and extended metadata capabilities. What we got 1 ½ years later is regjeringen.no, a complete redesign of visual appearance, navigation and functionality. The technical solution combines commercially available components – Web CMS, search engine and topic maps engine – to create a new user experience for both editors and end users, and to facilitate conversion of legacy content. A special feature is the option to add Topic classification automatically during import of legacy information data, and classification support for Editors publishing new content. The presentation shows (using examples seen from the editors’ and users’ views) how a strong focus on a redefined end user target group – and on web editors’ tasks and needs – resulted in a unique platform that efficiently combines the capabilities of Topic Maps and Search technology, and encourages further development. 2007-03-21 10:30:00 2007-03-21 2007-03-21 11:05:00 Track 2 TM2009: Day 1 Track 2d 2009-03-19 14:40:00 2009-03-19 15:10:00 Belgium Rejected Members Member of Member of Epinova Youngstorget 4, 0181 Oslo, Norway Hierarchy Forms hierarchy for Forms hierarchy for Publishing Large Collection of Artworks Using Topic Maps Publishing Large Collection of Artworks 2007-03-21 13:30:00 2007-03-21 14:00:00 Our presentation introduces a real-life project where large collection of artworks and relevant knowledge were published in internet using topic maps. Project employed topic map based knowledge aggregation, editing and publishing application Wandora developed in Grip Studios Interactive, Inc. Project’s goal was to realize attractive and well-designed WWW service promoting art collections of Finnish National Gallery. Finnish National Gallery is the largest art museum institution in Finland. Art collections of Finnish National Gallery contains over 30 000 artworks. Presentation describes the path to topic map based WWW service and reviews experiences, including problems and success factors faced during the project. We also explain motivation behind some Wandora features such as layered topic maps. 2007-03-21 Our presentation introduces a real-life project where the Finnish National Gallery’s artwork collections were published on the Internet using topic maps. The project employed topicmap- based knowledge aggregation, editing and the publishing application Wandora developed in Grip Studios Interactive, Inc. The presentation describes the path to topic -map -based WWW service and reviews experiences, including problems and success factors faced during the project. Semantic Interoperability: Europe Semantic Interoperability: The State of the Union (Europe) This session forms part of the track on Semantic Interoperability in eGovernment. Peter Brown, from Pensive.eu, will provide a general overview of relevant initiatives and research into semantic interoperability in the European Union. The focus of the presentation will be on the eGovernment Resources Network, which uses Topic Maps to provide a solution for public officials wanting to share information or resources about a particular project (whether it be a requirements study, a piece of code or a fully deployed eService). Marco Aarts from the Dutch ICTU-foundation will present the "Overheid heeft Antwoord" programme which has defined XML and Dublin Core-based standards for government metadata. These controlled vocabularies consist of terms that represent entities and often have relations of their own. To manage these entities and relations ICTU is investigating the applicability of semantic technologies to represent this information as a "Government Knowledge Map". The presentation will focus on how a knowledge model based on open standards can add value to metadata. This track takes the form of a workshop and will be followed by an extended discussion session. Proposals for 5-10 minute lightning talks are still being accepted. Please contact "tm2008@topicmaps.com":mailto:tm2008@topicmaps.com with your proposal. 2008-04-03 Semantic interoperability initiatives are also afoot in the EU, and many of them are either considering or already using Topic Maps. We hear from Peter Brown, who has been closely involved with several of these initiatives, and Marco Aarts of the Dutch ICTU Foundation, which is working on standards for government metadata. There will also be time for discussion. 2008-04-04 15:30:00 2008-04-04 15:00:00 Is read-only Ligent Denmark Schwarze Jochen +49 160 90523622 TM2010: Day 1 Track 1d Track 1 2010-04-15 13:45:00 2010-04-15 13:15:00 Is hidden Clearing the skies: From tag clouds to topic maps From tag clouds to topic maps 2007-03-21 11:05:00 In the Web 2.0 paradigm, users are using tags to build online interest-based communities. By connecting tags together, we can achieve more powerful meta tagging and strengthen learning. Connecting tags together will also extend meaningfulness, and enable tag-based integration of different systems/communities. In this presentation we discuss the pedagogical rationale and the architecture for a Topic- Mapsbased web service application that promotes aggregation of tags through semantic associations. The Web 2.0 paradigm is upon us. The users are gradually become the center for activities, resources and processes. It is more about sharing and communities and less about systems. People participate in communitybased portals, such as flickr, del.icio.us and youtube, and they decide for themselves what communities they want to take part in. The use of tags to markup content is one of the fundamental concepts in the Web 2.0 paradigm. Even if meta tagging has been used to describe and classify content for many years, only recently have users all over the web been using shared tags to build online interest based communities and to share content. The next natural step will be to connect the tags together by semantic propositions. Moreover, we argue that by connecting tags together, we will not only achieve more powerful, contextualized and dynamic indexing of content and resources, but it is possible also facilitate learning on another level. By focusing on the subjects and the relation between subjects while working with learning resources, the learner will be able to tie the content to pre-acquired knowledge and hence build strong knowledge structures. Within the domain of learning, the shifting from a strong emphasis on the so called Virtual Learning Environments towards Personal Learning Environments, the focus changes from administrative, top-down perspective to the user’s individual organization of learning and knowledge building. It is the learner herself that configures her virtual learning environment, controls access levels, etc. One will typically find services the learner subscribes to (learning activity tools, RSS feeds, etc.), links to other important resources, etc.. This drives the digital learning environments towards a more service oriented architecture. TopicMaps is becoming a recognized way of structuring and navigating knowledge, based on the idea of subjects and the relation between them. We are developing a web application that facilitates using topicmaps to build and share maps of meta tags. This is primarily on two levels; there is a need to be able to connect various tags together to express extended meaning, and there is a need to connect tags from one system to tags in other systems, to technically show the sameness of the subjects the tags are representing. In this paper we discuss the pedagogical rationale and the technical architecture for a web service application that promotes aggregation of tags through semantic associations. 2007-03-21 11:40:00 2007-03-21 Welcome to Topic Maps 2009 Welcome to Topic Maps 2009 2009-03-19 09:10:00 2009-03-19 09:00:00 The conference will be opened by Øystein Johannessen from the Norwegian Ministry of Education. 2009-03-19 Introduction to Topic Maps 2007::01 Introduction to Topic Maps 2007-03-20 09:00:00 1 This tutorial provides a solid Introduction to Topic Maps for anyone who is a newcomer to Topic Maps. It covers what topic maps are and what kinds of problems they can solve. The basic Topic Maps constructs (topics, associations and occurrences) are explained using the simple yet powerful TAO Model. Also included is a discussion of the unique suitability of Topic Maps for creating information finding aids based upon metadata and classification schemes (like taxonomies and thesauri). The tutorial concludes with an extensive review of real world Topic Maps applications. 2007-03-20 12:00:00 Address 3 TM2008: Day 2 Track 2 Cultural Heritage 2008-04-04 11:00:00 2008-04-04 12:30:00 TM2008: Day 2 Lunch Lunch and exhibition 2008-04-03 14:00:00 2008-04-03 12:30:00 Michel Biezunski Michel Biezunski is the co-inventor of the Topic Maps model, as well as the initiator of the standard. He started the XTM initiative and has been the co-editor of XTM in 2000. Michel is working on information modeling and implementation, including topic maps applications, and is based in New York City. Jacob Landsvik Rådgiver Topic type 000000001 Opening plenary TM2009: Day 1 Opening plenary 2009-03-19 09:40:00 2009-03-19 09:00:00 Call for presentations Call for presentations (TM2008) Topic Maps 2008 is targeted towards users and potential users of Topic Maps, in particular: * Information architects, software engineers and project managers working with portals and web sites; * Knowledge officers responsible for intranet-based knowledge management; * Corporate and commercial publishers; * Public sector providers of information; * Students and teachers of computer science and library and information science. h4.Presentations We are particularly interested in proposals for presentations based on real-life case studies, but other presentations aimed at practitioners of Topic Maps will be considered (e.g. tools overviews, generalized project experiences, etc.). Presentations will be 20-45 minutes long and will include time for questions. Attendance will range from 50-250 people in each track. Presentations are more likely to be accepted if they highlight a particularly unusual, interesting or important aspect of Topic Maps, such as: * Applications that demonstrate quantifiable business benefits and ROI * Applications in industry and/or the private sector * Applications in fields other than pure web publishing, e.g. knowledge management * Applications that make innovative use of Topic Maps features like merging and scope * Applications worthy of promotion as showcases in their own country and/or language Every application is noteworthy in its own way; make sure your proposal highlights the noteworthy aspects of your application! h4.Tutorials There will be a whole day of tutorials on Wednesday 2 April. Proposals are sought on any Topic Maps-related subject that is suitable for a full-day or half-day tutorial. Appropriate topics include the following: * Introduction to Topic Maps * Introduction to Ontology Design * Advanced Ontology Design Workshop * Knowledge Organization with Topic Maps * How to Build a Portal using Topic Maps * Topic Maps and Interaction Design * The Role of Topic Maps in a Digital Library * Topic Maps and the Semantic Web * How to Create a Topic Map * The Formal Semantics of Topic Maps * Introductions to CTM, TMQL and TMCL h4.Submissions Initial submissions may be sent to the program committee at any time – the sooner, the better. Proposals should be approximately 500 words. Case study proposals should contain a detailed description of the project, its goals and status, and highlight which aspects are viewed as being of particular interest. Proposals should include details of the presenter's past speaking experience. Please note that the conference will be held in English and that no simultaneous translation will be provided. It is therefore important that presenters are fluent in English and capable of speaking clearly and confidently. 2008-01-04 Hans Christian Holte Hans Christian Holte is the director of the newly created Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI). +47 90790721 Director Knowledge Synergy Inc. IBM Rosenholmvn. 25 1411 Kolbotn Norway Robert Barta Robert Barta currently implements semantic technologies for large-scale GIS monitoring systems at the Austrian Research Centers. Before that he was edutainer at an Australian academic institution, and has also been involved in content syndicator infrastructure work, internet service providing, web hosting and software development. With his open-source hat on, he is a Topic Maps infrastructure developer; with his academic hat on, a university lecturer at the Technical University Vienna. He is also co-editor of the Topic Maps Query Language (TMQL) and the Topic Maps Reference Model (TMRM). CSW Group Mason Dr. James D. James D. Mason, originally trained as a mediaevalist and linguist, has been a writer, systems developer, and manufacturing engineer at U.S. Department of Energy facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, since the late 1970s. In 1981, he joined the ISO’s work on standards for document management and interchange and has chaired ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 since 1985. For his work on SGML, Dr. Mason has received the Gutenberg Award from Printing Industries of America and the Tekkie Award from GCA. Dr. Mason has been a co-chair of Extreme Markup Languages since 2003. He is currently working on information systems to support manufacturing and the classification community at DOE's Y-12 National Security Complex. TM2008: Day 1 Exhibition Exhibition continues 2008-04-03 17:30:00 2008-04-03 19:30:00 Lunch and exhibition TM2008: Day 1 Lunch 2008-04-03 14:00:00 2008-04-03 12:30:00 Explaining the Complexity of Life with Topic Maps 2008-03-04 Over the last few years it has become clear that the organisation of life is even more complex than previously imagined. For example, if we only count the number of genes in different organisms, we can scarcely explain the differences between a human being and a fruit fly. In order to understand the complexity of life, biologists can no longer constrain themselves to single DNA sequences, proteins and metabolites. These must instead be seen as building blocks for high-level biological networks that have an almost infinite number of putative interactions. Finding the correct relationships in such networks is one of the keys to understanding, for example, complex diseases caused by a multitude of environmental and genetic factors. This requires analysing staggering amounts of data. Data sources in the emerging research field of Systems Biology are estimated to have grown to around five petabytes (five quadrillion bytes, or 5,000 terabytes). But apart from the scale, the challenges faced by systems biologists are the same as those faced in other fields of information and knowledge management: * How to retrieve knowledge that spans multiple resources? * How to merge knowledge from different domains and ontologies? * How to harvest semantic structures from unstructured text? This presentation looks at how a Topic Maps-based approach has been applied to build an semantic information portal that provides seamless, real-time integration of 500 genome databases and 16 million abstracts. The information comes from the biomedical domain, but the underlying concepts and technical implementation are applicable to Enterprise Information Systems in general, and the research group plans to open source the implementation. 2008-03-04 14:30:00 2008-03-04 14:00:00 Explaining the complexity of life on earth requires the ability to analyze vast quantities of data. Stümpflen describes the semantic integration of some 500 genome databases and 16 million abstracts and how the use of Topic Maps as a tool to retrieve complex and otherwise overlooked relationships is generally applicable to Enterprise Information Systems. Organization 000000039 000000035 000000038 000000001 000000036 000000029 000000032 000000034 000000041 000000030 000000033 000000040 000000031 String Topic Maps as a Tool for Optimizing Reporting 2009-03-19 11:25:00 2009-03-19 2009-03-19 11:35:00 The reporting and documentation of financial results is extremely important for almost every organization, irrespective of whether it is a large, publicly traded corporation, a voluntary organization, or a public institution. Traditional reporting in the form of e.g. annual reports is often extremely voluminous and hierarchical in its organization, and this makes it difficult for users to find what they are looking for – for example, how the current status develops over time for some particular topic. A topic map can be immensely useful in this kind of situation Everything is Miscellaneous Everything is Miscellaneous 2008-03-04 Just when I thought I understood the world, David Weinberger turns it upside down – and rightside up – again. Everything Is Miscellaneous explains the radical changes happening in digital information – and therefore in society as a whole. (Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia) 2008-03-04 10:00:00 2008-03-04 09:00:00 Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But today, the shift from the physical to the digital is ripping, burning, and mixing our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place - the physical world demanded it - but now everything has its places: multiple categories, multiple shelves. Suddenly, everything is miscellaneous. In this presentation, David Weinberger takes us on a rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous. He examines why the Dewey Decimal system is stretched to the breaking point, how Rand McNally decides what information _not_ to include in a physical map (and why Google Earth is beating them out), how Staples stores emulate online shopping in order to increase sales, why your children's teachers will stop having them memorize facts, and how the shifts to digital music and playlists are not just transforming the music business but stand as models for the future in virtually every industry. Weinberger charts the new principles of digital disorder that are remaking business, media, education, politics, science, and culture, with profound consequences for how we work and how we live. Year Korean Folk Music (Pansori) Evaluating an Innovative Korean Folk Music (Pansori) Retrieval System Using Topic Maps The main purpose of the study is to design an innovative Pansori Retrieval System using Topic Maps, and evaluate its utility against a competing current system in meeting the needs of users. Experiment participants were asked to carry out representative tasks and their own queries. The study measured objective and subjective performance of the two systems such as search steps taken, time spent for given tasks, search completeness, ease of use, efficiency of systems, and users’ satisfaction with the systems. 2007-03-21 2007-03-21 15:30:00 2007-03-21 15:00:00 Den Norske Veritas A Vision for a Topic Maps World 2009-03-19 2009-03-19 10:20:00 Topic Maps has been successful in delivering value in the context of content management, intranets and web publishing. In these contexts it has provided value in terms of improved navigation and findability of content. However, the scope of these projects has been limited, and it could be argued that Topic Maps has simply created better managed, and more useful silos of content. This talk presents a vision and concept for enabling Topic Maps in a global context. We describe how the fundamental concept of Topic Maps, the separation of identity from addressing, can be taken and utilised in a global scale. This vision includes how people, who have invested in Topic Maps in the small, can contribute and benefit from this step change in the scope of Topic Maps usage. 2009-03-19 09:50:00 2009::01 Understanding Topic Maps Understanding Topic Maps 1 This tutorial provides a solid introduction to Topic Maps for anyone who is a newcomer to the subject. It covers what topic maps are and what kinds of problems they can solve. The basic Topic Maps constructs (topics, associations and occurrences) are explained using the simple yet powerful TAO Model. More advanced topics, such as scope and identity, are also covered. The tutorial concludes with a review of real world Topic Maps applications. A comprehensive introduction that explains what topic maps are and what kinds of problems they address. The tutorial covers both basic constructs (topics, associations and occurrences) and more advanced topics, such as scope and identity. It concludes with an extensive review of real world Topic Maps applications. 2009-03-18 13:00:00 2009-03-18 17:00:00 Portugal Bekk Consulting Skur 39 Vippetangen N-0150 Oslo Norway Organization committee (Topic Maps 2010) 0rganization committee (Topic Maps 2007) Organization committee Norwegian Government Administration Services P.O. Box 8129 Dep. N-0032 Oslo Norway TOPICMAPS.COM This topic map was created to drive topicmaps.com, a web site run by and for the Topic Maps community. At the moment it consists mainly of information about conferences, but there are plans to include resources, tools and more besides. Steve Pepper 1.4 0.9 Austrian Research Centers TM2007: Track 3 (cont) Track 3 2007-03-21 16:00:00 2007-03-21 13:30:00 Haukaas Kjersti Kjersti Haukaas is a Masters student in Library and Information Science at Oslo University College. She has worked with IT-systems for 20 years, as project manager, IT architect, developer and data administrator. Keil Robert Robert Keil holds an M.Sc. in Information Technology and Industrial Economics and has been working as a consultant for more than 15 years. He held a number of leading roles, including Department Manager and Sales Manager in Avenir and Managing Director / Country Manager in Razorfish, before he started working with Creuna in 2002. For the last 6 years Robert has been responsible for implementing full-scale Topic Maps portals for the government. His client list includes among others the Norwegian Parliament, The Brønnøysund Register Centre / Altinn, The Norwegian Tax Administration, The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, the Directorate of Integration and Diversity, Statistics Norway and the Norwegian Food Safety Authority. Technical documentation Bergen kommune Marita Otilie Østby +47 92023381 Christer Gundersen Bristol Hall 500 Siv Holen Strategic Advisor Thon Hotel Bristol Thon Hotel Bristol Kristian IV's gate 7 0164 Oslo +47 22826000 +47 22826001 ISO Working Group Mailing List Maintained by Steve Newcomb, Jim Mason and Michel Biezunski. Its purpose is to facilitate technical work on the ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps International Standard. Anyone can subscribe to this list, and its archives are open to the public. Anyone can submit contributions to the list; these are subject to review before they are posted. Those who are directly involved in the ISO process have posting privileges that allow them to post their contributions immediately, without review. Ida Heggedal Prosjektleder Sal 1 Topic Map Mail Maintained by Michel Biezunski at Infoloom. This is a discussion list on general issues related to Topic Maps, including what topic maps are and how they can be applied. This list covers both technical and non-technical issues and is open to anyone (including newcomers) interested in Topic Maps in general. TM2008: Day 1 Social event Social event (Månefisken) 2008-04-03 19:30:00 2008-04-03 23:00:00 Ontology Version Information Integration, Topic Maps and the Struggle for Peace The International Peace Research Institute needed a new user-friendly information management platform that would reflect and enhance the diversity, depth and quality of its work. It chose to use Topic Maps as the glue to integrate SharePoint, EPiServer and Maconomy, and this presentation describes the result. 2008-04-03 11:30:00 The International Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO) employs many world class researchers whose task is to finding the driving forces behind violent conflict and investigating ways in which peace can be achieved and maintained. These researchers produce a lot of high quality information output in the form of research articles, books, reports, debates, seminars and teaching. Information about this information (metadata), and often the information itself, needs to be made available in many different ways, both internally and externally, in order to accommodate complicated management and reporting needs, as well as dissemination of research output within the research community and to the general public. PRIO recently replaced its information management systems and is today using SharePoint, EPiServer and Maconomy. The challenge facing the organization was to integrate these different information sources. The goal was to provide a sophisticated and user-friendly information management and publishing platform that would reflect and enhance the diversity, depth and quality of the organization’s work. This presentation outlines the key management objectives, shows how Topic Maps was able to deliver the solution, and discusses what this entailed for the organization itself. 2008-04-03 2008-04-03 11:00:00 TM2008: Day 1 Track 2c Digital Libraries 2008-04-03 17:30:00 2008-04-03 16:00:00 Mauriske Salong 30 Organization committee (Topic Maps 2008) 0rganization committee (Topic Maps 2008) Organization committee 2010::06 ZTM: Ny generasjon for verdens første publiseringsverktøy med emnekart ZTM: Ny generasjon for verdens første publiseringsverktøy med emnekart Introduksjon til publiseringsverktøyet ZTM med praktiske eksempler på hvordan emnekart kan brukes til å løse små og store utfordringer i organisering og formidling av informasjon. ZTM er verdens første publiseringsverktøy med emnekart og eksemplene i denne introduksjonen er hentet fra noen av de nyeste prosjektene. Arbeider du med informasjonsformidling eller webpublisering, er nysgjerrig på hva emnekart er eller hvordan det kan løse dine formidlingsproblemer, så er denne gjennomgangen riktig for deg. Introduksjon til publiseringsverktøyet ZTM med praktiske eksempler på hvordan emnekart kan brukes til å løse små og store utfordringer i organisering og formidling av informasjon. ZTM er verdens første publiseringsverktøy med emnekart og eksemplene i denne introduksjonen er hentet fra noen av de nyeste prosjektene. Arbeider du med informasjonsformidling eller webpublisering, er nysgjerrig på hva emnekart er eller hvordan det kan løse dine formidlingsproblemer, så er denne gjennomgangen riktig for deg. 2010-04-14 13:00:00 2 2010-04-14 16:00:00 1 Call for presentations A call for presentations in connection with a conference. 000000012 Education and e-Learning TM2008: Day 1 Track 2a 2008-04-03 11:00:00 2008-04-03 12:30:00 Ingo Schönfeld Whole Field Width Track 2 TM2010: Day 1 Track 2d 2010-04-15 13:15:00 2010-04-15 13:45:00 TM2007: Track 3 Track 3 2007-03-21 10:30:00 2007-03-21 12:15:00 TM2009: Day 1 Track 2c Track 2 2009-03-19 13:00:00 2009-03-19 14:15:00 TM2007: Track 1 Track 1 2007-03-21 10:30:00 2007-03-21 12:15:00 Conference Co-chair Conference Chair Chair Chair of Creuna Tullins gate 4c 0166 Oslo Norway Uta Schulze Uta Schulze studied computer science (i.e. bioinformatics) at the University of Leipzig, graduated with a diploma in 2009 and is working at the Topic Maps Lab since. She supervises the development of the Maiana portal, works as an Ruby Topic Maps (RTM) developer and implements the Lab’s virtual TMAPI merging engine "Hatana". <a href="http://www.topicmapslab.de/people/Uta_Schulze?locale=en">Full bio at topicmapslab.de</a> TM2010: Day 1 Closing plenary Closing plenary 2010-04-15 16:00:00 2010-04-15 15:25:00 Deadline 10 The deadline for some event, such as registration, responding to a call for papers, etc. Semagia Markt 1 D-27777 Ganderkesee Germany Navigating the Production Maze: The Topic Mapped Enterprise Navigating the Production Maze A manufacturing enterprise is an intricate web of links among products, their components, their materials, and the facilities needed to turn materials into components and completed products. Faced with the need to maintain products that may have been built decades ago, a Department of Energy manufacturing facility has built a topic map that treats our products in detail, the component flows, and the facilities and tools and is using it in planning process modernization. 2007-03-21 15:30:00 2007-03-21 2007-03-21 16:00:00 Has field Language of Language Language The binary relationship between resource (such as an article, book or presentation) and its primary language. Version Schjødt-Osmo Kristin Kristin Schjødt-Osmo works as a Production and Development Manager in the Digital Media Department at Cappelen Damm Education. She is responsible for the Publication Management System used by authors, editors and consultants to publish digital content for primary, lower secondary and upper secondary schools. Earlier she was in charge of the CRM-system at J.W. Cappelen Forlag AS. +47 92282925 Engum Janniche TMQL Mailing List The purpose of tmql-wg@isotopicmaps.org is to facilitate technical work on the ISO/IEC 19756 "Topic Maps Query Language" International Standard. Anyone can subscribe to this list, and its archives are open to the public. Anyone can submit contributions to the list; these are subject to review before they are posted. Contributions should be limited to substantive discussions of technical questions and issues regarding TMQL. Program committee Program committee (Topic Maps 2008) ESIS Norge Nedre Vollgate 8, Oslo, Norway Cfengine on Topical Islands - Unifying Configuration Management and Knowledge Management Cfengine on Topical Islands 2009-03-19 There is a simple approach to integrating knowledge with configuration management. The key springs from two compatible models: Promise Theory and Topic Maps. Promise Theory is a model of policy originated by Burgess as a way of modelling the autonomous operation of configuration management in "cfengine":http://www.cfengine.org/. What makes Topic Maps attractive compared to other more complex logic systems for ontology is that they are intended for human reasoning (something humans are very good at), not for machine inference (which is something machines have rarely been very good at). Although they sound like very different animals, Topic Maps and promises are closely related and form a neatly symbiotic relationship. 2009-03-19 15:10:00 2009-03-19 14:40:00 Maiana - Share, mix and explore your data interlinked Maiana 2010-04-15 13:50:00 Maiana is the first social Topic Maps browser provided by the Topic Maps Lab. In Maiana you can create, browse, download, query and validate maps, follow users and watch other maps. For each topic each information about its PSIs is both retrieved from and published to subj3ct.com. Maiana is different through its social and merging facilities. In Maiana each map exists only once. You can put it into different containers for virtual merging with other maps. Maiana is the first social Topic Maps browser provided by the Topic Maps Lab. In Maiana you can create, browse, download, query and validate maps, follow users and watch other maps. For each topic each information about its PSIs is both retrieved from and published to subj3ct.com. Maiana is different through its social and merging facilities. In Maiana each map exists only once. You can put it into different containers for virtual merging with other maps. 2010-04-15 2010-04-15 14:20:00 Ole-Jørgen Tallaksrud +47 91361889 Uses interface control Aranuka Aranuka - A POJO to Topic Maps mapping library 2010-04-15 Anskaffelser.no – prosessbasert veileder til offentlige anskaffelser Anskaffelser.no – prosessbasert veileder til offentlige anskaffelser 2010-04-15 13:50:00 2010-04-15 14:20:00 Event 000000275 000000143 Description of an event. 000000206 000000001 This is a scope note about the use of the topic type Event. 000000205 Trainor Kevin Kevin Trainor is the founder and President of Ligent, a consulting and training firm specializing in Topic Maps. He has more than 30 years of experience in training, consulting and publishing. He is actively involved in the design and implementation of content delivery systems based upon Topic Maps. Kevin teaches the Ontopia Topic Maps curriculum in North America and he has presented Topic Maps tutorials at XML 2005, Extreme Markup Languages 2006, TMRA 2006, TMRA 2007, and Topicmaps 2007. He holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a BA from Rutgers University. Platinum sponsor 1 Øystein Johannessen +47 48053342 Jelte Verhoeff +31 652501502 Jelte Verhoeff is currently working as a senior project manager for Dutch Arbo Unie, market leader for Health and Safety Support, servicing the 25,000 largest companies and public organizations in the Netherlands. Jelte is responsible for the development of Information Architecture and Planning and the introduction of Knowledge Management practices. Jelte started as a system analyst and has been working in IT for over 25 years, mainly with large public and private organizations. The core of KM, now being introduced within Arbo Unie, is an integrated Topic Maps solution, catering for work processes and the new unified intranet/extranet/internet. Topic Maps are combined with a semantic language analysis system in order to derive metadata from text corpora in a largely automated process and have “top down” topic maps interact with “bottom up” discovery of relevant new phenomena. Coffee and exhibition TM2010: Day 1 Coffee break (AM2) 2010-04-15 10:15:00 2010-04-15 10:45:00 Tommy Nordeng Tommy Nordeng is CEO of Cerpus A/S. He has a doctoral degree in molecular biology from the University of Oslo, Norway, with post-doctoral experience from, amongst others, Harvard Medical School, and a pedagogical education as well. Cerpus A/S has developed the Topic Maps-based pedagogical tool Brain Bank Learning and the cultural history web site Kuling.net. For the last few years Tommy has been engaged as an advisor to the National Digital Arena for Learning (NDLA) and is currently in charge of the solution and the technical development. +47 97975785 University of Oslo Ontopedia PO Box 36 Milton, ON L9T-2Y3 Canada Everything is a Subject 2008-03-04 15:20:00 2008-03-04 14:30:00 This closing keynote weaves together the many threads of Topic Maps 2008. It will show how Topic Maps achieves the dream of Vannevar Bush in ways that today’s Web does not, how it not only supports but actually thrives on the miscellaneous, and how the vision of subject-centric computing promises to turn information and knowledge management inside out – and leave it like that. This closing keynote weaves together the many threads of Topic Maps 2008. It will show how Topic Maps achieves the dream of Vannevar Bush in ways that today’s Web does not, how it not only supports but actually thrives on the miscellaneous, and how the vision of subject-centric computing promises to turn information and knowledge management inside out – and leave it like that. 2008-03-04 United Kingdom UK Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Topic Maps But Were Afraid to Ask! Everything You Ever Wanted to Know... 2006-03-29 2006-03-29 14:00:00 2006-03-29 15:00:00 Two of the Editors of the revised and soon-to-be-published Topic Maps standard will hold court for a 90-minute interactive session devoted to any and every aspect of Topic Maps, from the most down-to-earth and practical to the most esoteric and technical. Lars Marius and Graham are happy to field questions in real-time, but attendees are encouraged to submit their questions in advance to help planning. Send your questions (in Norwegian or English) to expert@emnekart.no! And remember: there is no such thing as a stupid question! TM2009: Day 1 Track 1c Track 1 2009-03-19 14:15:00 2009-03-19 13:00:00 Track 2 TM2010: Day 1 Track 2a 2010-04-15 09:45:00 2010-04-15 10:15:00 Andreas Johnsen +47 98238107 Knowledge Sharing and Integration using Topic Maps 2009-03-19 2009-03-19 13:30:00 2009-03-19 13:00:00 "Naturfag.no":http://www.naturfag.no and "Viten.no":http://viten.no are two electronic resources for science education aimed at teachers and students respectively. On a yearly basis Viten.no is used by over half of all students in the first year of secondary level education. This presentation will show how the two web sites are integrated in a single Topic Map with the official teaching curricula from GREP, and how the learning resources are shared with the rest of the world using derived metadata in NORLOM (the Norwegian version of the Learning Object Metadata standard) and the protocol OAI-PMH. We will also discuss some of the challenges involved in integratring with external sources, such as GREP, and handling large quantities of data in a topic map. Mjølsnes Are +47 97717933 Are Mjølsnes was educated as a teacher and has worked with web-based solutions for education since 1998. In 2001 he was project leader for what is widely regarded as the world's first full-scale Topic Maps-driven web site, www.itu.no. Since then his work has concentrated on applying Topic Maps technology in education. Are joined the newly formed Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training in 2003 and has been responsible for a number of Topic Maps-related projects, including www.skolenettet.no and www.udir.no. Are is currently an advisor to a major government project, Grep ("Grip") in which Topic Maps is used to structure and publish the complete National Curriculum for all school education in Norway for children aged from 6 to 19 years. Fast Wrightson Ann Located NRCCL Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law St. Olavs plass 5 (Domus Nova), Oslo, Norway Is abstract Number Networked Planet Committee 000000016 000000011 000000013 000000014 000000015 000000012 Question Answering over Topic Maps in Video Surveillance Application Question Answering over Topic Maps in Video Surveillance Application Two applications – video surveillance application, and a more generic Topic Maps based application – are examined with a novel natural language question answering system over Topic Maps. It turns out that the developed question answering over Topic Maps, and a related graphical visualization technique, provide a great advantage for users trying to access the knowledge available in the topic maps. The video surveillance application is explained in details, and both the question answering system and the graph visualization are demonstrated. 2010-04-15 09:45:00 2010-04-15 2010-04-15 10:15:00 Two applications – video surveillance application, and a more generic Topic Maps based application – are examined with a novel natural language question answering system over Topic Maps. It turns out that the developed question answering over Topic Maps, and a related graphical visualization technique, provide a great advantage for users trying to access the knowledge available in the topic maps. The video surveillance application is explained in details, and both the question answering system and the graph visualization are demonstrated. Bajracharya Rajan Man BE/ Computer Science & Engineering, Karnataka, India, 1994-1999. Topic Maps 2007 The First International Topic Maps Users Conference 2007-03-20 2007-03-21 2007 The First International Topic Maps Users Conference took place at the Oslo Conference Centre in Norway on March 20-21 2007. Attendees experienced two days of tutorials, case studies, technical discussions, and exhibitions. They learned about how the ISO Topic Maps standard is being applied around the world to solve problems of information and knowledge management and had the opportunity to meet fellow users and talk to some of the world's leading experts. The conference was targeted towards users and potential users of Topic Maps. In particular: * Information architects, software engineers, and project managers working with portals and web sites; * Knowledge officers responsible for intranet-based knowledge management; * Corporate and commercial publishers; * Public sector providers of information; * Students and teachers of computer science and library and information science. Royal Academy of Music Sungkyunkwan University Arbo Unie Daltonlaan 500 3584 BK Utrecht Netherlands Winston-Salem State University 3206 E.J. Jones Computer Science Bldg Winston Salem, NC 27110 USA Date YYYY-MM-DD Volker Stümpflen +49-89-3187-3619 Group Manager Has role Welcome to Topic Maps 2008 Welcome to Topic Maps 2008 2008-04-03 09:10:00 2008-04-03 The conference will be opened by the director of the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI). DIFI aims to strengthen the government’s work in renewing the Norwegian public sector and improve the organisation and efficiency of government administration. DIFI works to ensure that government administration in Norway is characterised by values of excellence, efficiency, user-orientation, transparency and democracy. We aim to develop the organisation and leadership of the public sector, with coordination among public authorities and services. Its tasks include: * Providing assistance with reorganisation processes in the public sector * Developing a good national information policy * Supporting the development of leaders, employees and management of human resources within the public sector * Setting up solid public procurement procedures * Encouraging coordinated and cost-efficient use of ICT within the public sector * Making public information and services more accessible for citizens and public agencies On request, we provide public sector managers with advice and assist with official reports and evaluations. We also suggest and carry out assignments ourselves. The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI) was established 1 January 2008, following a merger of the previous public agencies Statskonsult, Norway.no and the Norwegian eProcurement Secretariat. The agency is overseen by the Ministry of Government Administration and Reform (FAD). 2008-04-03 09:00:00 Subject locator TM2008: Day 1 Coffee break (AM) Coffee and exhibition 2008-04-03 11:00:00 2008-04-03 10:30:00 Wednesday March 18 TM2009: Tutorial Day 2 2009-03-18 Ovitas Norway Biskop Gunnerus gt. 2 N-0155 Oslo Norway Bjørn Wang +47 92010578 Bjørn Wang is a senior consultant with Creuna. He is a Content Management specialist with a particular focus on developing user-friendly solutions. He has had technical responsibility for a number of large, content-driven solutions, including ODIN (the Norwegian government web site) and government web publishing platforms. Number 5 A generic property whose value is a number. SBV Forensics Singel 211 3311 KR Dordrecht Netherlands Track 1 TM2010: Day 1 Track 1a 2010-04-15 10:15:00 2010-04-15 09:45:00 TM2007: Closing plenary Closing plenary 2007-03-21 16:45:00 2007-03-21 16:10:00 Creator Topic Maps and the "big story" Topic Maps and the "big story" This talk begins by considering where we are in the story of civilization (the "big story"), and charts a possible future in which the technology of memory sharing enables a profusion of collective human intelligences. It uses the Information Economy Metalanguage (IEML) as an example of such an enabling technology. It proposes that a revolutionary aspect of topic maps is that they enable shared intuitions by allowing information emanating from different cultural perspectives to be co-located, even while such co-locations remain addressable in terms of their original cultures. 2007-03-21 2007-03-21 16:45:00 2007-03-21 16:10:00 Conference track 000000225 000000228 000000227 000000226 000000229 000000216 A track within a conference. In the case of a multiday conference, part of a conference day. TM2010: Day 1 Coffee break (PM3) 2010-04-15 15:30:00 2010-04-15 15:20:00 Track 2 TM2009: Day 1 Track 2a 2009-03-19 10:20:00 2009-03-19 09:50:00 Kyoto University Kyoto University Lars Heuer Student of Computer Science in Oldenburg, Germany. Editor of the Compact Topic Maps syntax (CTM). Works with Robert Barta on the AsTMa= syntax. Comparing AsTMa!, OSL, and Xtche: the Topic Maps Constraint Languages Comparing Constraint Languages 2007-03-21 15:30:00 Topic maps are an ISO standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information. A topic map can represent information using topics (representing any concept), associations (which represent the relationships between them), and occurrences (which represent relationships between topics and information resources relevant to them). They are thus similar to semantic networks and both concept and mind maps in many respects. According to Topic Map Data Model (TMDM), Topic Maps are abstract structures that can encode knowledge and connect this encoded knowledge to relevant information resources. In order to cope with a broad range of scenarios, a topic is a very wide concept. On one hand, this makes Topic Maps a convenient model for knowledge representation; but on the other hand, this can also put in risk the topic map consistency. A set of semantic constraints must be imposed to the topic map in order to grant its consistency. Currently, we can find three approaches to constrain Topic Maps - AsTMa!, OSL, and XTche - that allow us to specify constraints and to validate the instances of a family of topic maps against that set of rules. With these resemblances it is easy to conclude that they are quite similar. However they differ in some fundamental concepts. These three Topic Maps constraint specification languages were hardly tested and benchmarked with a huge test suite. The most significant results will be discussed in this paper. In this article, we will use that test suite and show, step-by-step, the way we handled several kinds of Topic Maps constraints in many different instances in order to answer questions like: Do they do the same job? Are there some kind of Topic Maps constraints that are easier to specify with one of them? Do you need different background to use the languages? Is it possible to use them in similar situations (the same topic maps instances)? May we use them to produce an equal result? How do AsTMa!, OSL, and XTche relate to Topic Maps Constraint Language (TMCL)? What is the intersection area of these three? What kind of constraints each one of these three is able to specify? What kind of constraints each one of these three can not specify? We will conclude this paper with a summary of the comparisons accomplished between those Topic Maps constraint languages over some use cases proposed. 2007-03-21 16:00:00 In this presentation we will use a test suite and show the way we handled several kinds of Topic Maps constraints in many different instances in order to answer questions like: Do they do the same job? Do you need different background to use the languages? How do they relate to TMCL? We will conclude the presentation with a summary of the comparisons accomplished between those Topic Maps constraint languages over some cases of proposed use. 2007-03-21 Canada Location Article 000000004 000000007 000000008 000000002 000000005 000000001 000000003 000000006 Has large instance set IntelliSearch Strandveien 15 N-1326 Lysaker Norway Member Anskaffelser.no Anskaffelser.no – prosessbasert veileder til offentlige anskaffelser 2010-04-15 11:50:00 2010-04-15 11:20:00 Anskaffelser.no – prosessbasert veileder til offentlige anskaffelser 2010-04-15 Anskaffelser.no – prosessbasert veileder til offentlige anskaffelser Opening plenary TM2010: Day 1 Opening plenary 2010-04-15 09:00:00 2010-04-15 09:40:00 Haakon Salen 200 Topic Mapping the National Curriculum Topic Mapping the National Curriculum 2008-04-03 11:00:00 The Directorate of Education and Training made history by choosing to structure the new National Curriculum for Norwegian primary and secondary schools using Topic Maps. The decision is opening up many new possibilities for everyone involved in education. This session presents a kaleidoscopic view of the Grep vision and the different ways in which it is being used. It brings together the architects and the initial users, including producers of learning materials, vendors of Learning Management Systems, representatives of local cultural initiatives and learning innovators. When the Norwegian Ministry of Education introduced a new National Curriculum for all primary and secondary education, it was decided that all curricula should follow the same consistent structure. The Directorate for Education and Training (UDIR) could have decided to specify that structure in a set of informal rules, and implement it using typographic effects in a text document. Instead it decide to go for a formal semantic structure and chose Topic Maps as the most appropriate knowledge representation formalism. Although that decision did not make the news headlines, it was truly revolutionary. This is the first time that Topic Maps has been used to represent the definitive version of an official Government Regulation. Even more important, the decision is opening up hitherto undreamt of possibilities for everyone involved in producing, managing and consuming learning resources. The new curricula are stored in the Grep database which can be navigated via a web interface at www.udir.no/grep. In addition they are freely available as a topic map in XTM format from bak.udir.no. This session provides a kaleidoscopic view of the Grep vision and the different ways in which it is being used. It brings together the architects of the system some of the initial users of Grep, including producers of learning materials, vendors of Learning Management Systems, and representatives of local cultural initiatives. Invited speakers include the publisher Cappelen-Damm, LMS vendor It's learning, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), and Cerpus, an innovative company from the north of Norway responsible for BrainBank Learning and Kuling. 2008-04-03 12:30:00 2008-04-03 Modelling with Topic Maps (1) 2007::03 Modelling with Topic Maps (1) A full-day tutorial on how to do ontology modelling with Topic Maps, which teaches proper use of the constructs in Topic Maps for modelling, such as topic types, association types, occurrence types, and role types. Rules of thumb and guidelines are given to help attendees use these constructs correctly. Together with the instructor, the attendees will create an ontology for a real-world use case in the tutorial. The tutorial also teaches a procedure for creating Topic Maps ontologies which can be applied to any ontology creation project. It also covers the role of ontology design in a larger Topic Maps application project, and how to make sure that the ontology matches requirements, data sources, and that it is generally agreed on. 2007-03-20 12:00:00 2 2007-03-20 09:00:00 Closing plenary TM2008: Day 2 Closing plenary 2008-04-04 16:30:00 2008-04-04 14:00:00 Dutch Tax Office Kloosterweg 22 PO Box 2865 NL-6401 DJ Heerlen Netherlands Modelling with Topic Maps (2) 2007::04 Modelling with Topic Maps (2) 2007-03-20 13:00:00 2 2007-03-20 16:00:00 A full-day tutorial on how to do ontology modelling with Topic Maps, which teaches proper use of the constructs in Topic Maps for modelling, such as topic types, association types, occurrence types, and role types. Rules of thumb and guidelines are given to help attendees use these constructs correctly. Together with the instructor, the attendees will create an ontology for a real-world use case in the tutorial. The tutorial also teaches a procedure for creating Topic Maps ontologies which can be applied to any ontology creation project. It also covers the role of ontology design in a larger Topic Maps application project, and how to make sure that the ontology matches requirements, data sources, and that it is generally agreed on. Date Government agency Topic Maps 2009 The Third International Topic Maps Conference The theme of this year's conference is *Culture for Sharing*. Topic Maps is a technology for knowledge sharing, as will be demonstrated by a number of exciting presentations this year, including some that cover free - collaborative - software for Topic Maps. The Topic Maps Users' Conference is also an ideal arena for sharing experiences and "best practices". As usual, there will be something for everyone, with the emphasis on good examples of Topic Maps in practice. Among the case studies featured this year are the new Topic Maps-driven web sites at the Rikshospitalet University Hospital in Oslo and the University of Bergen. *Stian Danenbarger* will talk about model-driven searching. *Robert Engels* will talk about semantic interoperability in the SeSam4 project which is applying RDF/OWL and Topic Maps technologies in tandem to the domain of tourism. *Jørgen Dalen* will present Knowledge Management solutions in which Topic Maps is used as a strategic tool for improving the findability of both people and knowledge in global organizations. Internationally renowned writer and law professor *"Jon Bing":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bing* will also be there - will you? p(note).*Some users of Topic Maps:* Regjeringen.no • Universitetet i Bergen: uib.no • VisitNorway.com • Stortinget.no • Netcom One ProductGuide • Royal Academy of Music • Den Norske Legeforening • U.S. Internal Revenue Service • Rikshospitalet • Bergen kommune • Forbrukerportalen • LO • Postens intranett • Vestvågøy kommune • Hadsel kommune • Brønnøysundregistrene: altinn.no • Verdipapirsentralen • Høyre • KS • Korean National Library • Naturfag.no • Viten.no • Kulturnett • Utdanningsdirektoratets læreplaner • Matematikk.org • nrk.no/skole • Nysgjerrigper.no • Cappelen Damm Undervisning • Norges Forskningsråd: Polararet.no • Skolenettet • Matportalen.no • Apollon.uio.no • Wilh. Wilhelmsen • Direktoratet for samfunnssikkerhet og beredskap • Det Finske Nasjonalgalleriet • Norsk Institutt for Fredsforskning (PRIO) • Utdanningsdirektoratet.no • University of Leipzig: topicmapslab.de • Y-12 National Security Complex, USA • Skogoglandskap.no • New Zealand Electronic Text Centre • Private Barnehagers Landsforbund • BrainBank • Fuzzzy.com • German Research Center for Environmental Health 2009-03-18 CULTURE FOR SHARING 2009-03-19 2009 Applying Topic Maps to Genome Research Applying Topic Maps to Genome Research 2006-03-29 14:00:00 2006-03-29 14:30:00 2006-03-29 In the field of genome research, scientists have to deal with huge amounts of interconnected data in a vast knowledge network: enzymes, proteins, genes, reactions, and biological pathways are all interrelated. Using Topic Maps it is possible to make sense of all this data, visualize it, and present it to the user in a form that is easy to navigate. Mauriske Sal 100 Kal Ahmed Kal Ahmed is the founder of NetworkedPlanet. He has worked in SGML and XML information management for 10 years working in both software development and consultancy. He is well-known in the topic map community for his work on the open-source Java topic map toolkit, TM4J and for his contributions to development of the ISO standard. Kal has published many articles on topic maps and topic map-related themes and is a frequent conference speaker. Gelb Joe +972-2-993-8054 Joe Gelb is the founder and president of Suite Solutions. Joe has overseen the successful implementation of documentation conversion, single-source publishing and content management integration projects. He has designed and built numerous utilities and applications to aid in the development, management, localization and multi-purpose publishing of technical documentation. He has broad experience in topic-oriented content development, information architecture, and application of tools for successfully optimizing creation, management, localization and delivery of technical information. Joe has developed innovative strategies for information modeling designed specifically for technical documentation and training. After serving as CTO of Live Linx, overseeing technology design, development and content management implementation for over 10 years, Joe established Suite Solutions. The firm is based on Joe’s belief that every organization deserves responsive and professional service, independent of software vendors. His customer-oriented approach results in pragmatic process and technology solutions that meet requirements, are based on accepted standards and best practices, and make good business sense. Applies to Has status Status The relationship between some subject, such as a document (e.g. a proposal), and its status. Using Topic Maps and SharePoint for Enterprise Information Integration Topic Maps, SharePoint and EII 2007-03-21 13:30:00 Enterprise information integration (EII) is about the integration of multiple information systems to present a unified seamless and contextualized view of the information. The new Intranet and EII solution for the Norwegian postal service is created by combining Topic Maps and SharePoint to provides a powerful platform for collaborative information creation, content classification, integration and information delivery. We present the concepts, the challenges, and the way in which we overcame them. Enterprise information integration is a powerful concept that promises to deliver key information to all decision makers at all levels of an organization in order to support their day to day activities. It is about the integration of multiple information systems to present a unified seamless view of the information. Further, it is about contextualizing the information available for different user roles within the organization. Topic Maps and SharePoint provides a powerful and flexible platform for collaborative information creation, and content classification, integration and information delivery. SharePoint provides a platform that allows users to collaborate on the creation and storage of content. However, SharePoint is still a fairly isolated and static technology in terms of the types of information it can manage, the way it integrates with other systems and the expressiveness of relationships between information items. Topic Maps provides a semantic information management server that supports a more flexible data model for expressing relationships between information items, powerful ability to integrate existing and new information systems and a powerful facility for searching and delivering contextual based views on corporate information. In this presentation we present how these two technologies came together to provide an EII solution for Posten. We present the concepts, the challenges, and the way in which we overcame them. 2007-03-21 14:10:00 2007-03-21 Integrating Publication Silos 2006-03-29 12:30:00 The Dutch tax office, with one of the largest intranets in the Netherlands, faces a not uncommon set of problems: decreasing information quality, redundancy, link maintenance nightmares, buyer's lock-in, and poor information retrieval. Topic Maps provides a solution to most of them. 2006-03-29 12:00:00 2006-03-29 Biography 6 2009::02 Introduction to ZTM 3 Introduction to ZTM 3 2009-03-18 16:00:00 Zope Topic Maps - or ZTM - is an Open Source project to build a user-friendly Topic Maps driven content management system. It is written in Python on top of the Zope application server. First developed in 2001 and now at version 3.0, ZTM has been used as the foundation for several high-profile Norwegian web portals and is probably the world's most widely used tool for building Topic Maps-based portals. ZTM aims to make Topic Maps publishing accessible to the average user without requiring an understanding of the finer points of the Topic Maps paradigm. This tutorial by ZTM's lead developer will teach you how to install a server and build an ontology for your own publishing needs. Participants are expected to have some familiarity core Topic Maps concepts. Bring a computer and start building your own topic maps-website using ZTM, the leading open source Topic Maps-driven Content Management System. You will learn how to get up and running, create your ontology, start filling the knowledge base, customize apperance and start the conference with your own topic map. Bring a computer and start building your own topic maps-website using ZTM, the leading open source Topic Maps-driven Content Management System. You will learn how to get up and running, create your ontology, start filling the knowledge base, customize apperance and start the conference with your own topic map. Zope Topic Maps (ZTM) is an open source project to build a user-friendly Topic Maps-driven content management system. The system is widely used for web sites in Norway. This tutorial will teach you how to install a server and build an ontology for your own publishing needs. 2 2009-03-18 09:00:00 Contains Located in Located in Information architecture Slides Slides that accompany a presentation. Burgess Mark Professor of Network and System Administration +47 93002472 Suite Solutions 328A Quinton Drive Monroe NJ 08831 USA TM2007: Track 2 Track 2 2007-03-21 10:30:00 2007-03-21 12:15:00 Hafslund ASA Place 000000005 000000001 000000003 000000004 000000002 Altheim Murray Constraining Topic Maps with TMCL 2008::12 Constraining Topic Maps with TMCL 2008-04-02 13:00:00 6 2008-04-02 16:00:00 TMCL is the constraint and schema language for Topic Maps. This tutorial, by one of the editors, teaches the language model and syntax and provides an introduction to the basic constraint constructs before going on to demonstrate their use in a number of worked examples. 12 TMCL is the constraint and schema language for Topic Maps. This tutorial teaches the language model and syntax. It introduces the basic constraint constructs and then goes on to demonstrate their use in a number of worked examples. Attendees are expected to have a good understanding of the Topic Maps Data Model (TMDM) and by the end of the tutorial will be able to create TMCL schemas. TM2009: Day 1 Track 1b Track 1 2009-03-19 10:40:00 2009-03-19 11:45:00 Topic Maps as key enabler for common archive functionality across a range of IT-systems Occurrences The private energy company Hafslund has conducted a Proof Of Concept to ensure business-critical information across the enterprise. Support for business processes are well developed in Hafslund trough a large number of specialized systems. The challenge is to harvest all relevant records, and re-expose them.Norwegian archive standard (NOARK) is used to structure the archive, but how can the individual system complete all the required metadata? Master Data management in a Topic Map is a key enabler for this functionality. Learn how Topic Maps can be exploited both to automatically complement lack of metadata, and as common hooks to expose the information back to the other systems. The technology used is Microsoft SharePoint 2010, FAST search engine and NetworkedPlanet’s TMCore Topic Maps engine. 2010-04-15 15:30:00 2010-04-15 2010-04-15 16:00:00 The private energy company Hafslund has conducted a Proof Of Concept to ensure business-critical information across the enterprise. Support for business processes are well developed in Hafslund trough a large number of specialized systems. The challenge is to harvest all relevant records, and re-expose them.Norwegian archive standard (NOARK) is used to structure the archive, but how can the individual system complete all the required metadata? Master Data management in a Topic Map is a key enabler for this functionality. Learn how Topic Maps can be exploited both to automatically complement lack of metadata, and as common hooks to expose the information back to the other systems. The technology used is Microsoft SharePoint 2010, FAST search engine and NetworkedPlanet’s TMCore Topic Maps engine. TM2006: Track 2 (cont) Track 2 2006-03-29 15:00:00 2006-03-29 14:00:00 Short description 60 4 A short description of a subject. Registration page 80 The URL of a registration page for a conference, seminar, etc. Coffee and exhibition TM2008: Day 2 Coffee break (AM) 2008-04-03 11:00:00 2008-04-03 10:30:00 Fluid ICT Strategies Enabled with Topic Maps Fluid ICT Strategies 2008-04-04 2008-04-04 11:30:00 Today’s economy requires organizations to be innovative and agile. This presentation discusses how subject-centric computing and semantics (through Topic Maps) can enable large-sized organizations to develop agile ICT strategies, which will save them money, shorten time-to-market, and improve innovative processes. 2008-04-04 11:00:00 This presentation discusses how subject-centric computing and semantics (through Topic Maps) can enable large-sized organizations to develop agile ICT strategies, which will save them money, shorten time-to-market, and improve innovative processes. Most large organizations (profit and non-profit) still use static ICT strategies to shape their processes. As a consequence, they are slow to respond to changing economic, technological and social developments both within and outside the organization. This compromises competitiveness and innovation. The cause can be traced to the following aspects: * Existing systems are structurally inert because of the relational model on which they are built; * Suppliers charge high prices to change their systems from one static state to another; * Changes to systems and processes have a long time-to-market; * Knowledge-based problems are being solved using information-based principles and systems [data &#x2192; information &#x2192; knowledge] Today's economy requires organizations to be innovative and agile. Faced with new developments, an organization should be able to change its strategic direction quickly AND pursue this new direction with all its strength. This will only be possible if an organization has the ability to use more dynamic and agile strategies. Topic Maps offers the means to accomplish this. This presentation outlines the advantages that Topic Maps offers for agile strategies, including subject-centric computing, flexible system integration, and the scalability and flexibility of knowledge hubs. After discussing each of these in turn, the presentation will bind them together and show how the resulting combination enables the creation of agile ICT strategies. Ruokangas Sirpa Topic Maps 2008 The Second International Topic Maps Users Conference p(note).Slides of most presentations are now available. From the "program page":http://localhost:8080/tmc/program.jsp?conf=TM2008 click on the title of the presentation that interests you. Links to slides are shown at the bottom of the page. "Subject-centric computing" is a new way of thinking about how we organize information. Building on traditions and insights accumulated over the centuries, it represents a *paradigm shift* in how we use computers to manage information and knowledge. The basic idea is simple: the organizing principle of information should not be where it lives or how it was created, but _what it is about_. Organize information _by subject_ and it will be easier to integrate, reuse and share - and (not least) easier for users to find. The increased awareness of the importance of *metadata* and *ontologies*, the popularity of *tagging*, and a growing interest in *semantic interoperability* are part and parcel of the new trend towards subject-centric computing. This conference brings together these disparate threads by focusing on an open international standard that is subject-centric to its very core: "ISO 13250 Topic Maps":http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.html. Join us in Oslo for "three days of tutorials, case studies, technical discussions and exhibitions":program.jsp?conf=TM2008 to learn how Topic Maps and the vision of subject-centric computing is being applied around the world to solve problems of information and knowledge management. Download flyer: !graphics/EN.png(English)!:http://www.topicmaps.com/tm2008/flyer-EN.pdf &#xa0; !graphics/NO.png(Norwegian)!:http://www.topicmaps.com/tm2008/flyer-NO.pdf &#xa0; !graphics/DE.png(German flyer)!:http://www.topicmaps.com/tm2008/flyer-DE.pdf 2008-04-02 2008-04-04 2008 Towards the Vision of Subject-Centric Computing Time (to) Topic Maps 2006 bq.Minoriteten har altid ret... den minoritet, som går foran der, hvor flertallet endnu ikke er nået hen. Jeg mener, retten har den, som er nærmest i pakt med fremtiden. _(Henrik Ibsen, Brev til Georg Brandes)_ Henrik Ibsens spissformulering om at minoriteten alltid har rett gjelder like mye innen IT som i samfunnet forøvrig. For verden står ikke stille: nye teknologier spirer frem; de beste fanges opp av en minoritet som går foran (der, hvor flertallet ennå ikke er nådd hen); og de blir til slutt adoptert av flertallet. Emnekart - Topic Maps - er nettopp en slik ny teknologi som nå er i ferd med å få solid fotfeste i Norge: en internasjonal standard for sammenkopling av informasjon og kunnskap. Men det er mange som ennå lurer på hva emnekart går ut på, hvilke problemer det løser, hvordan man går frem, og, ikke minst, hvilke utfordringer man kan regne med å støte på underveis. Emnekart 2006 er beregnet for dem som vurderer å ta i bruk emnekartteknologi og som ønsker å lære av erfaringene til folk som allerede har gjort det. Her kan du høre anvendere og eksperter fra inn- og utland fortelle hvordan emnekart blir brukt til å løse ulike problemer innen informasjons- og kunnskapsforvaltning. Årets Keynote-presentasjon holdes av oppfinneren av Topic Maps - Dr. Steven R. Newcomb. Bli med på Emnekart 2006 - konferansen som er nærmest i pakt med fremtiden! 2006-03-29 2006 2006-03-29 Kleive Synnøve Konsulent Datatype Austria Making topic maps from Subject Headings for linking and organizing information Making topic maps from Subject Headings for linking and organizing information 2010-04-15 2010-04-15 13:15:00 Topic maps can be transformed from Subject Headings (SH) easily. This effort aims to make topic maps and Published Subject Identifiers (PSIs) from SH. By keeping the relationships included in SH such as Broader-Narrower, Related, USE-UF etc., information and knowledge can be linked and organized according to the subjects and the relationships in the topic maps. By providing SH as topic maps and PSI in the context of Linked Topic Maps, they will become powerful elements for it. Topic maps can be transformed from Subject Headings (SH) easily. This effort aims to make topic maps and Published Subject Identifiers (PSIs) from SH. By keeping the relationships included in SH such as Broader-Narrower, Related, USE-UF etc., information and knowledge can be linked and organized according to the subjects and the relationships in the topic maps. By providing SH as topic maps and PSI in the context of Linked Topic Maps, they will become powerful elements for it. 2010-04-15 13:45:00 Haß Christian +49 (341) 97-32297 M.Sc Christian Haß studied computer science at the University of applied science Stralsund where he graduated with an master degree in 2007. Afterwards he was working two years for a remote sensing company in Brandenburg before he joined the Topic Maps Lab in 2009. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development Datetime YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS Public sector Paper 000000005 000000001 000000008 000000002 000000006 000000004 000000007 000000003 Is symmetric Default Cardinality Nofima Nofima Symbolic name Mæhle Åsmund +47 93248278 Avdelingsleder 2009::03 Wandora Workshop Wandora Workshop 16 2009-03-18 13:00:00 Wandora is an Open Source Java application for building and managing topic maps. Wandora has a graphical user interface, several data storage options, and rich data extraction, import and export capabilities. Wandora is well suited for rapid ontology construction and knowledge mashups. We would like to focus on how to use Wandora as a semantic extraction tool, and demonstrate how to use Wandora to do semantic mashups. This is a hands-on workshop which is targeted towards developers interested in Topic Maps, Semantic Web technologies or web mash-ups. We will use a few of the many interesting Wandora extractors to generate topic maps. Possible extractors include MP3, FreeDB (music CD metadata), Internet Movie Database, generic SQL database, BibTeX, Flickr, YouTube, Digg, Del.icio.us, some microformats (geo, adr, hcalendar, hcard), OpenCalais, OpenCyc, Wikipedia, Geonames and Wordnet. More info about Wandora: "http://www.wandora.org/":http://www.wandora.org/) 3 2009-03-18 17:00:00 Wandora is an Open Source Java application for building and managing topic maps. Wandora has a graphical user interface, several data storage options, and rich data extraction, import and export capabilities. Wandora is well suited for rapid ontology construction and knowledge mashups. We would like to focus on how to use Wandora as a semantic extraction tool, and demonstrate how to use Wandora to do semantic mashups. This is a hands-on workshop which is targeted towards developers interested in Topic Maps, Semantic Web technologies or web mash-ups. Syndication of Semantic Descriptions in eGovernment Topic Maps for syndication of semantic descriptions in eGovernment 2009-03-19 14:15:00 There is activity to define a generic protocol/service for using Topic Maps, ATOM, and topic map fragments to syndicate ontologies, controlled vocabularies and semantic descriptions in the area of eGovernment. The eGov-Share standard / protocol is being considered for use by many govts departments in Europe. The main protocol is using ATOM to syndicate topic map fragments. The protocol describes how fragments are generated and how a client updates its local map with the contents of the fragment. 2009-03-19 2009-03-19 13:45:00 Practical Ontology Design 2008::04 Practical Ontology Design 2008-04-02 13:00:00 20 Starting from the theoretical understanding of ontology design gained from the Introduction to Ontology Design, this tutorial shows how to turn theory into practice. Together with the instructor, the attendees will create an ontology for a real-world use case and in so doing have the opportunity to encounter, discuss - and solve - some of the most basic design issues that arise in any Topic Maps project. 2008-04-02 16:00:00 Starting from the theoretical understanding gained from the Introduction to Ontology Design, learn how to turn theory into practice by interactively creating an ontology for a real-world use case, and in so doing encounter, discuss and solve some of the most basic design issues that tend to arise. 2 Consists of Part of Part of A relationship between an entity and a larger entity of which it is part, e.g. a presentation and a conference. Scope note: Allowed role players in this topic map are events. Field order Time (from) NorStella C. J. Hambros plass 2C N-0164 Oslo Norway TM2008: Day 1 Track 2b E-Government 2008-04-03 14:00:00 2008-04-03 15:30:00 Improving NetCom’s Customer Service Improving NetCom’s Customer Service with Topic Maps NetCom, Norway's second largest mobile operator, is owned by TeliaSonera, the leading telecommunications company in the Nordic and Baltic region. Until recently, Customer Service Representatives at NetCom had to consult a number of different and not very user-friendly systems in order to find the information they needed when assisting a customer. The primary goal of FASIT ("answer, solution, key") was to enable these reps to provide a better service. A customer service rep typically needs information about obsolete, current or forthcoming mobile phone subscription types. She wants to know what kind of services the subscription can or cannot include. In addition, she needs easy access to relevant routines - for example, how to proceed when the customer wishes to upgrade his subscription type. Related FAQ's, sale conditions, sales and marketing material, current marketing campaigns and current operative information are also highly frequently required. The new NetCom Product Guide uses Topic Maps to tie together all this disparate but highly interrelated information, providing the user with multiple navigation paths to access information and collecting closely related information in a single page view. The main user group for this application, built using the TM Core Sharepoint Module and the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, is the Customer Service department. However, the information is relevant for everyone in NetCom (and TeliaSonera in general) who needs to get an overview of what NetCom is offering. The solution is thus evolving into a generalized knowledge management tool for the whole organization. This presentation discusses the experience of using Topic Maps to power this system and the benefits that have accrued. 2008-04-03 14:00:00 2008-04-03 NetCom needed to improve its service to customers by providing customer service reps with faster access to relevant information. This presentation explains how they achieved their goal by using Topic Maps to tie together a welter of disparate information into the new, user-friendly and highly navigable NetCom Product Guide. 2008-04-03 14:30:00 EPiServer Drammensveien 123 1326 Lysaker Norway Browse dialog Conference day 000000225 000000216 000000228 A single day of a conference. 000000226 000000229 000000227 TM2008: Day 1 Track 1c Knowledge Management 2008-04-03 16:00:00 2008-04-03 17:30:00 Open Source Topic Map Portals 2008::07 Open Source Topic Map Portals Zope Topic Maps - or ZTM - is an open source project to build a user-friendly Topic Maps driven content management system. It is written in Python on top of the Zope application server. First developed in 2001 and now at version 3.0, ZTM has been used as the foundation for several high-profile Norwegian web portals. ZTM aims to make Topic Maps publishing accessible to the average user without requiring an understanding of the finer points of the Topic Maps paradigm. This tutorial by ZTM's lead developer will teach you how to install a server and build an ontology for your own publishing needs. Participants are expected to have some familiarity core Topic Maps concepts. 4 2008-04-02 12:00:00 Zope Topic Maps (ZTM) is an open source project to build a user-friendly Topic Maps-driven content management system. The system is widely used for web sites in Norway. This tutorial will teach you how to install a server and build an ontology for your own publishing needs. 2008-04-02 09:00:00 11 TM2009: Day 1 Lunch Lunch and exhibition 2009-03-19 13:00:00 2009-03-19 11:45:00 Dicheva Darina Professor of Computer Science +1 336-750-2484 http://myweb.wssu.edu/dichevad/ Stringer-Hye Suellen Workshop TM2006: Workshop 2006-03-29 14:00:00 2006-03-29 15:00:00 Steve Pepper Steve Pepper is an independent researcher, writer and lecturer who has worked with open standards for structured information for over two decades. He has represented Norway on ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, the ISO subcommittee for document description languages, since 1995, and convened the Topic Maps Working Group since it was founded. He was the editor of the XML Topic Maps specification (XTM) in 2001 and has published numerous papers and presentations on Topic Maps-related subjects, including the well-known _TAO of Topic Maps_. A frequent speaker at XML, Topic Maps and knowledge management events around the world, Steve was for many years the author and maintainer of the _Whirlwind Guide to SGML and XML tools_. He also co-authored (with Charles Goldfarb, the inventor of SGML, and Chet Ensign) the _SGML Buyer's Guide_ (Prentice-Hall, 1998). In 2000 Steve founded Ontopia, which became the world's premier provider of Topic Maps technology. His current research focus with Ontopedia is on subject-centric computing applications based on the Topic Maps standard. He also lectures at the University College of Oslo, writes for various publications, including the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, maintains the community website "TOPICMAPS.COM":http://www.topicmaps.com and chairs the annual Topic Maps Users Conference. +47 90827246 Topic Map Design Patterns 2008::05 Topic Map Design Patterns Topic Maps provide a uniquely powerful structure to represent all kinds of information structures, but how do we capture best practice and ensure that useful features of one project can be successfully carried over into a new one? Topic Map Patterns are one attempt to answer that question. This tutorial focuses on how the software engineering idea of Design Patterns can be applied to Topic Maps. It is repeated from last year's conference by popular request! 2008-04-02 12:00:00 17 2008-04-02 09:00:00 3 The ideas from Software Design Patterns can enable pattern-based reuse and better communication in Topic Maps projects. Many systems encounter the same problems, and patterns let us capture and share important knowledge. The relationship between patterns, best practices and reusable components is also discussed. Interface control Bridging the gap between Information Science and Learning Theory using Topic Maps Topic Maps and Learning Theory Current eLearning practices rely, rather narrowly, on theories of learning and educational psychology to build platforms for creating sound online instruction. However, with the integration of indexing technologies, most notably, Topic Maps (ISO 13250) into eLearning applications (see Venkatesh et al., 2007, in press), it has become necessary for online instructional designers to take into account theories of cognitive information retrieval to better support the organization of and search for relevant information in a corpus containing learning resources. In this presentation, I provide a description of a case study on the design, development and longitudinal evaluation of a topic map used by 28 graduate learners who took an eLearning course with me between February 2006 and November 2006. The topic map was built to serve as an index and navigational guide to a repository of 132 graded and annotated essays; these essays were written by 33 students who had already completed my eLearning course between 2002 and 2004. Learners in the course are required to complete six to seven academically-grounded essays over the course of thirteen weeks of instruction. The repository of essays, along with its topic map, provided learners with an opportunity to consult, at their convenience, essays that had already been graded by the instructor, thereby providing them with insight into the assessment criteria as well as inspiration for their own essays. The topic map indexed the essays in the repository by author, grade received (i.e., A+ to C) and subjects covered by the author in the essay (e.g., learning theory, motivation, knowledge management, etc.). Learners' use of the topic map was tracked electronically, and performance data were collected over the course of the instruction. Preliminary analysis of the data reveals that learners used the grade index more often at the beginning of the course, and tended to rely on the subjects index as the course wore on. Overall, with the use of the repository, learner performance on the essays steadily improved from one week to the next; there was, in fact, a significant amelioration in the performances of learners who used the repository as compared to those who did not. The learners who benefited the most from the use of the topic map were those who had neither a comprehensive understanding of the writing assignment nor of its’ assessment criteria. I will demonstrate, during the presentation, some typical use cases of the repository, as well as speculate on how topic map technology can influence the design of future course management systems and learning content management systems. 2007-03-21 The integration of indexing technologies like Topic Maps into eLearning applications better supports the organization of and search for relevant information in a corpus containing learning resources. This case study describes the longitudinal evaluation of a topic map which indexed a corpus of 132 studentgenerated graduate-level essays. The topic map was used by 28 graduate learners over the course of three semesters to access essays within the corpus in preparation for their own writing assignments. 2007-03-21 11:40:00 2007-03-21 12:15:00 Concordia University Tuesday March 20 (Tutorials) TM2007: Tutorial Day 2007-03-20 3 Keynote presentation 000000283 000000276 000000279 000000280 000000250 000000285 000000251 000000252 000000282 000000281 000000277 000000286 000000284 000000278 Haraldsen Arild +47 90199531 TM2010: Day 1 Coffee break (AM1) 2010-04-15 09:45:00 2010-04-15 09:40:00 Lunch and exhibition TM2010: Day 1 Lunch 2010-04-15 13:15:00 2010-04-15 11:50:00 Managing Knowledge in the Development Process Knowledge is the core asset at ATLAS Elektronik and the company's KM concept was awarded the title "Knowledge Manager of the Year" in 2003. Now the knowledge management solution is being extended, using topic maps to capture the organization's corporate memory. 2006-03-29 2006-03-29 12:00:00 2006-03-29 11:30:00 Borge Axel Axel Borge has been working as CTO and solution architect at the Microsoft department in Bouvet since 2003, and is involved in most of the Microsoft-related Topic Maps projects developed by Bouvet. He is a leading resource in utilizing Topic Maps technology on the Microsoft platform. Axel has worked for 19 years on the Microsoft platform as a developer, software architect and consultant. He has been working with Web technologies since 1994 when he started as a consultant for Oslonett, one of the first Internet companies in Norway. Software Architect TM2009: Social event Social event (Myrens kjøkken) 2009-03-18 18:00:00 2009-03-18 23:00:00 Norwegian Adrian Pedersen +47 93040987 OnlyWright An Information Architecture for Frank Lloyd Wright 2008-04-04 12:00:00 Topic Maps technology is powerful tool for organizing information resources using a tailor-made subject-centric conceptual model. Consequently, Topic Maps-based portals are a highly effective vehicle for delivering content over the Web. A successful Topic Maps portal project involves assessing user requirements, analyzing information resources, creating a useful conceptual model, finding reliable data sources and populating the topic map. Yet, all of these efforts are wasted unless the portal delivers content to the user in an effective and engaging way. How do we design a user interaction that takes best advantage of the power of Topic Maps? How do we provide superior navigation? How do we provide superior finding? How do we keep users engaged at our site longer? How do we entice users to visit the portal more often? These are the practical questions that stand between a good topic map and a brilliant Topic Maps portal. In this session, I will address these questions by discussing the choices that were made in the design of OnlyWright.com, my subject-centric portal about the life and work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Since OnlyWright.com is a demonstration project, the design of the portal evolves with each new release. I will be unveiling the next release at this conference. So, you can expect me to arrive with plenty of ideas and anecdotes about what works and what doesn’t. Please join me for this lively and practical discussion of Topic Maps portal design. OnlyWright.com is Ligent’s subject-centric portal demonstration project based around the work of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. This presentation describes the background to the project, some of the issues involved in creating the ontology, and how you can go about creating a topic map for your own pet project. 2008-04-04 2008-04-04 12:30:00 Eiliv Mæhle +47 98256056 Track 1 TM2009: Day 1 Track 1a 2009-03-19 09:50:00 2009-03-19 10:20:00 Durusau Patrick Patrick Durusau is the standards lead for Snowfall Software, a software company offering topic maps consulting services and software. He is co-editor of ISO 13250-5, the Topic Maps Reference Model, acting convener of JTC 1 SC 34 WG 3, co-editor of ISO 26300, OpenDocument Format, and is Chair of V1, the US Technical Advisory Group to SC 34. His research interests include theoretical issues of topic maps as well as the application of topic maps to complex humanities textual traditions, eGovernment and scientific domains. Emnet i fokus eller fokus på emnet? Emnet i fokus eller fokus på emnet? 2010-04-15 09:45:00 2010-04-15 Bergen kommunes nettsted relanseres i 2010 med en interaksjonsdesign og brukerfokus som bedre gjenspeiler emnekartet som ligger i bunn – eller var det omvendt? 2010-04-15 10:15:00 Bergen kommunes nettsted relanseres i 2010 med en interaksjonsdesign og brukerfokus som bedre gjenspeiler emnekartet som ligger i bunn – eller var det omvendt? TM2006: Opening plenary Opening plenary 2006-03-29 09:00:00 2006-03-29 10:30:00 Petter Thorsrud +47 97159527 Petter Thorsrud is a senior advisor at Departementenes servicesenter (Government Administration Services in Norway) since 2005. He has been responsible for developing the concept behind regjeringen.no – the new website for the Norwegian Government and the ministries, and is also involved in other web projects for the Ministries. From 1998 to 2005 he worked on various web projects as a consultant/advisor for Gazette, a communication agency in Oslo. Petter Thorsrud also has 15 years’ experience from the book publishing industry, and from photography, electronics engineering and the music recording business. Subject-Centric Content Syndication with Topic Maps Subject-Centric Content Syndication 2008-04-03 11:30:00 This presentation illustrates the benefits of applying a subject-centric approach to content syndication by presenting two different cases studies. The Norwegian Doctors Association uses Topic Maps to structure and syndicate content from as many as 89 unstructured content providers/sources. This case study focuses on the use of modern web technologies to get from unstructured content to structured content, and how Topic Maps in combination with common web technologies can build a simple and flexible framework for content syndication and presentation. The National Association of Private Nurseries (Private Barnehagers Landsforbund) uses Topic Maps to enable a user-centric design, translate across different taxonomies, and syndicate structured data between multiple sites. This case study focuses on how to create user-centric taxonomies for both the general public and professionals within the organisation and discusses how to build dynamic translations between sites that are based on different taxonomies. Both solutions use a common framework of modern web technologies and RSS to create a semantic web for the end users. This presentation illustrates the benefits of applying a subject-centric approach to content syndication by examining two cases studies with contrasting requirements: on the one hand, syndicating unstructured content; on the other, serving the interests of different sets of users at one and the same time. 2008-04-03 12:00:00 2008-04-03 Knowledge Management and Workforce Rehabilitation 2008-04-03 17:00:00 2008-04-03 Arbo Unie is the main supplier of employee health and safety support in the Netherlands with a 25% market share. The company employs 2,500 people, including over 600 medical doctors and 600 other academic professionals. Its client base of over 25,000 consists mainly of large and medium-size companies. The traditional focus of Arbo Unie and its competitors is reintegrating employees with health related problems into the workforce and its IT-system is tuned to support the accompanying administrative processes. Knowledge functions, while becoming more and more important, are not supported. To rectify this, Arbo Unie is currently running proofs of concept, using Topic Maps to improve processes and quality. This presentation discusses the results so far achieved and our plans for the future. In terms of the business of knowledge production and consumption, the goal is to develop a human-centric solution with a low usage threshold that builds social networks among professionals within Arbo Unie and between Arbo Unie and its clients and partners. On the financial side, the aim is to cut the cost per unit produced while improving the quality and contextual relevance of the knowledge, to lower search and production times, and shorten new products' time to market. Implementing this Topic Maps infrastructure during 2008, Arbo Unie envisages an overall 10% business productivity increase, combined with a 10% reduction of IT software maintenance costs for each of the next four years. The core of the architecture should hold for the next 4-5 years, providing for lasting flexibility and adaptibility to new needs, while the use of an open international standard will ensure even greater longevity. Arbo Unie’s task is to reintegrate employees with health-related problems into the workforce. Its current IT-system is tuned to support the accompanying administrative processes but not the all-important knowledge functions. Verhoeff describes a Topic Maps-based PoC whose goal is to rectify this problem and improve the quality of services offered. 2008-04-03 17:30:00 Topic Maps-driven Websites are Different 2008-04-03 2008-04-03 10:30:00 Today's World Wide Web is the massively successful culmination of a long series of experiments with hypertext stretching back over many decades. Its prehistory is mapped out by Alex Wright in his recent book, _Glut - Mastering Information Through the Ages_. Under the heading _The Web That Wasn't_ Wright explores earlier, alternative approaches to what we now know as the Web and shows what a different experience users might have had if one of these had succeeded. Minor changes in the backend infrastructure or different functionality in browsers might have resulted in a radically different Web experience. This presentation explores the same subject from the Topic Maps perspectives and looks at the idioms and patterns that Topic Maps encourages within the constraints of the current document-centric Web. It shows how certain usability patterns occur more naturally, or become easier to leverage, once content metadata is available in a topic map - and how this leads to a different way of thinking about information that in turn affects the design of web sites. The focus will be on usability and the discussion will demonstrate visually a number of patterns for how rich content from a topic map can improve portal design, including * Multiple paths to content to improve findability * Improved fulltext search * Faceted navigation and search * Rich context availability * Inline associations None of these features require Topic Maps in and of themselves. However, the claim of this presentation is that they are easier to achieve when a Topic Maps-based information architecture is employed - and that such an architecture in no way hinders the use of other existing well known patterns. 2008-04-03 10:00:00 Topic Maps was not designed as a technology for building web sites, but it has turned out to be ideal for that purpose and in Norway topic map-driven web sites have really caught on. Helgeland discusses the idioms and patterns that Topic Maps encourages in order to explain why. Oslo Kongressenter +47 23061009 +47 90709999 Youngs gate 11, N-0181 Oslo Norway Exhibitor at Exhibitor at Exhibitors A binary relationship between an organization and an event at which it exhibits. Capacity 6 The capacity of a room or some other kind of meeting venue. PRIO International Peace Research Institute Hausmanns gate 7 N-0186 Oslo Norway Færevaag Petter +47 98215500 Conference Chair Lars Kolsaker Resource The role of (information) resource in metadata relationships such as Dublin Core properties. Occurrence type University of Oslo Library Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo Postboks 1085 Blindern N-0317 Oslo Norway Norwegian Computer Society Møllergata 24 Oslo Norway Presentation 000000294 000000288 000000295 000000290 000000297 000000296 000000293 000000276 000000250 000000292 000000291 000000078 000000263 000000264 000000287 000000289 Job title Corena Norge USIT/University of Oslo Aarts Marco + 31 1254 3497 Marco Aarts has been active in the field of web and knowledge technologies for 10 years, mostly for government organisations such as defence and justice. In 2006 he joined the ICTU team as a technical consultant. Find documents? No, find people! 80% of the knowledge in organizations is undocumented, and can only be found in the heads of the employees. If you want to solve a problem, you must often contact a colleague rather than reading a document. This implies that effective people findability can be more important than a document search, especially in large organizations where you don’t necessarily know what person has the skills you need. The presentation shows how a global telecom company has used Topic Maps as a strategic tool to improve people findability and knowledge sharing. 2009-03-19 13:00:00 2009-03-19 13:30:00 2009-03-19 TopicView and Terrorist Ontologies in OWL and Topic Maps TopicView and Terrorist Ontologies Morpheus developed several enterprise intelligence tools in a project for the Dutch Police to support analysts in their processes. The first goal was mainly to get one overview of multiple systems with a Topic Maps approach and to improve the search functionalities. In this presentation we will show the quick wins and discuss terrorist ontologies in Topic Maps and OWL. Morpheus developed several enterprise intelligence tools in a first project for the Dutch Police to support analysts in their processes. In the first phase of the project the goal was mainly to get one overview on multiple systems with a Topic Maps approach and to improve the search functionalities of the system BlueView that is used nationwide. Although BlueView, a system that queries multiple systems for 25 regions, is a success one can’t search semantically and this is also why this pilot project is named TopicView. In the project, legacy data from five different information systems have been converted to topic maps and merged with the core ontology. The main advantage is the integration of information that can be found in a lot of applications, all of them developed for a particular goal or domain. The web-applications have been developed with help of the Ontopia Knowledge Suite, first a general application has been developed to give the analyst one overview on multiple systems and later other applications amongst others one in which analysts could make statements about other statements. After finalizing the first phase we needed to show the advantage of the application and this new approach in intelligence analysis. But the problem was that often it could not be demonstrated with the real live data. Therefore we started to work with the basis core ontology of TopicView in combination with open content and data that can be found on Wikipedia and in the Terrorist Ontology of the Mindswap project. This way we could demonstrate the usefulness of Topic Maps but now on data that everyone knows. For example we mixed information around Al-Quada and the famous Dutch “Hofstadgroep” with the core ontology. In both the two projects of Wikipedia and in Mindswap we find information about Al-Quada. There is overlap between them but also complementary information and therefore also a typical example of the different systems at the Dutch Police. In the presentation we will show the quick wins that we made in the first very short time span of TopicView and tell something about the ontology. Secondly we will compare this ontology in the TopicView topic map with the OWL terrorist Mindswap ontology. 2007-03-21 14:00:00 2007-03-21 2007-03-21 14:30:00 Hjørnestuen 40 Enterprise architecture Under consideration Full name Knowledge-based Systems for Representing Legal Norms Knowledge-based systems in jurisprudence is a research field of its own, in which the main discussion centres around how legal norms can be represented within a computer system. Those norms are usually represented using natural language (claims that legal parlance is not natural notwithstanding). There are exciting challenges involved in making these representations more formal – and this is a requirement for executive work in today's mass administration where most individual administrative decisions are based on systems that have been wholly or partially automated. 2009-03-19 15:20:00 2009-03-19 2009-03-19 16:00:00 Association type 000000001 System topic Date (from) 2007::05 An Introduction to Topic Map Patterns An Introduction to Topic Map Patterns 2007-03-20 13:00:00 Topic Maps provide a uniquely powerful structure to represent all kinds of information structures, but how do we capture best practice and ensure that useful features of one project can be successfully carried over into a new one? Topic Map Patterns are one attempt to answer that question. This tutorial focuses on how the software engineering idea of Design Patterns can be applied to Topic Maps. 2007-03-20 16:00:00 3 USA United States Lightning Talk A short presentation of 10 minutes or less that is part of a series of such talks at a conference or similar event. Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! The task of Information Architects is to create web sites where information can be found, quickly and easily. Most of the knowledge organization tools they use are based on traditional library science techniques, but Topic Maps are now attracting more and more attention. This presentation explains what topic maps are and how they relate to traditional tools like controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and thesauri. 2006-03-29 10:15:00 2006-03-29 2006-03-29 09:45:00 DIFI Agency for Public Management and eGovernment Stensberggt. 25 0170 Oslo Norway Coffee and exhibition TM2010: Day 1 Coffee break (PM2) 2010-04-15 14:50:00 2010-04-15 14:20:00 URI Gazette Youngstorget 3, 0028 Oslo, Norway Jansen Elise Østbø France Scope note A note that helps to clarify the meaning of a concept. 4 Pitts Antony Antony Pitts sang as a boy in the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, and later in a rock group called Room 33. Since gaining First-Class Honours in Music at New College, Oxford in 1990 he has worked in the UK and abroad as composer, director, teacher, and producer. His music has been premiered in London's Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, and the Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal in Berlin, and recorded for Hyperion, Naxos, and Harmonia Mundi; his 40-part motet _XL_ and _The Naxos Book of Carols_ are published by Faber Music. He founded and directs the ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS whose debut Naxos CD hit the top of the classical charts in 2003 and won a Cannes Classical Award; the ensemble recently sang at a private memorial for Alexander Litvinenko. Since 1999 he has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he is Senior Lecturer in Creative Technology; his long-standing research interest in the nature of musical, historical, and aesthetic time forms the basis for the RAMline project. He was a BBC member of staff from 1992 to 2005, becoming a Senior Producer for BBC Radio 3. In 1995 he was awarded the Radio Academy BT Award for an early live interactive experiment on the internet, for the turn of the Millennium he devised _The Unfinished Symphony_ – an 18-hour history of Western music, in 2003 he guest-presented BBC Radio 4's _Something Understood_, and in 2004 he was awarded the Prix Italia. Ontopia Steve Newcomb * Co-Editor of the Topic Maps Reference Model (ISO 13250-5). * Co-Editor of the Topic Maps International Standard (ISO/IEC 13250:2000) * Works as a consultant at Coolheads Consulting, USA. * Co-chairs the Extreme Markup Languages annual conference series in Montreal every August. +1 (214) 763 1057 ICTU TM2010: Day 1 Track 1f Track 1 and 2 2010-04-15 14:50:00 2010-04-15 15:20:00 Education Avenir Value The role of (property) value in metadata relationships such as Dublin Core properties. Laursen Henrik +45 33474453 Track 2 TM2010: Day 1 Track 2c 2010-04-15 11:20:00 2010-04-15 11:50:00 Thorsen Torstein VP Tech Lead TM2010: Day 1 Coffee break (PM1) Coffee and exhibition 2010-04-15 13:45:00 2010-04-15 13:50:00 Person 000000032 000000001 000000054 000000055 000000060 000000006 000000029 000000033 000000056 000000057 000000007 000000034 000000059 000000058 Randen Tine Bakgrunn i kommunikasjon og new media fra Norges Markedshøyskole, Oslo og University of Westminster, London. Jobbet tidligere som informasjonsrådgiver FarmasiForbundet, Kystdirektoratet, og siste året Meteorologisk institutt. Skal nå fungere som kommunikasjonsansvarlig for to spennende prosjekt under det internasjonale Polarået. Beginner Co-chair of Co-chair Conference Co-chair URL A locator for a network retrievable resource such as a document. Supertype Polyscopic Topic Maps in Flexible E-learning and Collaborative Knowledge Creation Polyscopic Topic Maps 2007-03-21 In a recent assessment, Tim Berners-Lee predicted that “The most exciting discoveries will come from the serendipitous combination and integration of data drawn from diverse sources.” [1]. It is now of central and I would say global importance to develop both the technical tools and the ways of using them which will allow insights and expertise from distinct and now fragmented fields of knowledge to be integrated and clearly understood. In this lecture I will show how this challenge may be met by combining polyscopy (a system of methodological ideas developed at the University of Oslo [2], [3]) with Topic Maps and Wikis. I will also offer a strategic point, namely that the presented approach allows us to apply the expertise in Topic Maps where Norway has competitive edge, to a key cultural and market need. Three applications of the proposed approach are already under development. The first is Flexplearn, a course model and infrastructure for flexible, exploratory learning, which is currently being used and tested in University of Oslo Information Design Course [4]. With small adaptation, Flexplearn can be adapted to meet collaborative knowledge creation needs in any field, for example in social sciences [5]. The third application is a technique for knowledge integration across distinct fields and professional groups called ‘key point dialog’. This technique is now being developed as an online community knowledge creation project called WiKeyPoDia [6], and also adapted and proposed to European Movement International and to Norwegian municipalities. References [1] Tim Berners-Lee: Welcome to the Semantic Web. The World in 2007, The Economist, special issue, Fall 2006, p. 146. [2] Dino Karabeg: Designing Information Design. Information Design Journal, vol. 11(1), Fall 2003. [3] Rolf Guescini, Dino Karabeg and Tommy Nordeng: A Case for Polyscopic Structuring of information. In J. Park and L. Maicher: Charting the Topic Map Research and Application Landscape. Springer Verlag, 2006. [4] Dino Karabeg, Rolf Guescini and Tommy Nordeng: Flexible, Exploratory Learning by Polyscopic Topic Maps. Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 2005. [5] Dino Karabeg: Following After Bourdieu. Project idea, 2006. http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~dino/ID/Misc/AfterBourdieu.pdf [6] http://WiKeyPoDia.org. In preparation. 2007-03-21 11:05:00 2007-03-21 10:30:00 The presented work extends our results from TMRA05 where we argued that in order to be effective in remedying the information overload, Topic Maps need to be structured in a specific, ‘polyscopic’ way. In this article we discuss applications of polyscopically structured topic maps in flexible e-learning and collaborative knowledge creation. We outline a software tool under construction which combines polyscopy, topic maps and wikis. JRuby Topic Maps: Using Ontopia in a Ruby on Rails application 2010::02 JRuby Topic Maps: Using Ontopia in a Ruby on Rails application 1 2010-04-14 13:00:00 2010-04-14 16:00:00 1 Have you ever created a Topic Maps application and it took just too much time? Have you ever created a Rails web portal and wondered, if you could enrich it with Topic Maps? If you answer at least one of these questions with YES, this workshop is the right one for you. Ruby Topic Maps was extended to use Ontopia internally. To achieve this it uses JRuby - a complete Ruby which runs inside a Java Virtual Machine. It benefits from the wealth of Java libraries and adds the agility of Ruby. We'll start with a new Rails application, add some forms, enter some data (feel free to bring your topic maps with you!) and run TMQL queries on it within minutes. Prior TMQL knowledge is not required, it will all be covered with examples and an example map. Some programming experience and basic knowledge of Topic Maps concepts are recommended. At the end of the workshop every attendee will have a small web portal based on Topic Maps running on his/her personal laptop which could then be deployed to an application server. Have you ever created a Topic Maps application and it took just too much time? Have you ever created a Rails web portal and wondered, if you could enrich it with Topic Maps? If you answer at least one of these questions with YES, this workshop is the right one for you. Ruby Topic Maps was extended to use Ontopia internally. To achieve this it uses JRuby - a complete Ruby which runs inside a Java Virtual Machine. It benefits from the wealth of Java libraries and adds the agility of Ruby. We'll start with a new Rails application, add some forms, enter some data (feel free to bring your topic maps with you!) and run TMQL queries on it within minutes. Prior TMQL knowledge is not required, it will all be covered with examples and an example map. Some programming experience and basic knowledge of Topic Maps concepts are recommended. At the end of the workshop every attendee will have a small web portal based on Topic Maps running on his/her personal laptop which could then be deployed to an application server. Belongs to (sector) Contains Sector A binary relationship between a case study, presentation or proposal and the business sector to which it belongs. Garshol Lars Marius Consultant +47 98215550 Lars Marius has worked with Topic Maps since 1999. He is CTO of Ontopia, and editor of several of the Topic Maps ISO standards (TMDM, TMQL and XTM 2.0). He has also been active as an XML open source developer, wrote the book Definitive XML Application Development, and is responsible for the Unicode support in the Opera web browser. <a href="http://www.topicmapslab.de/people/Lars_Marius_Garshol?locale=en">Full bio at topicmapslab.de</a> DITA and Topic Maps: Bringing the Pieces Together 2008-04-03 15:30:00 2008-04-03 The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. Named for the naturalist Charles Darwin, DITA uses the principles of specialization and inheritance in order to build content reuse into the authoring process. DITA divides content into small, self-contained topics that can be reused in different deliverables. The extensibility of DITA permits organizations to define specific information structures and still use standard tools to work with them. The ability to define company-specific and even group-specific information architectures enables DITA to support content reuse and reduce information redundancy. This presentation describes how combining DITA with Topic Maps provides significant advantages and helps capitalize on the investment of implementing a topic-oriented approach to content development and management. Traditionally, content development has been dictated by documentation deliverables. This presentation introduces a methodology for combining DITA with Topic Maps. The methodology extends the topic-oriented approach to content development and optimizes the process of deciding what content needs to be created. Such an approach is crucial for truly reaping the benefits of moving to DITA or any other topic-oriented architecture and generating return on investment, especially for large documentation sets. 2008-04-03 15:00:00 DITA is an XML-based architecture for technical documentation in which content is divided into small, self-contained “topics” that can be reused in different deliverables. Gelb describes how Topic Maps can be used in tandem with DITA in order to capitalize even more on the topic-oriented approach to content management. University of Bergen Drop-down list Are Gulbrandsen +47 97122198 Tuohy Conal Conal Tuohy is a software developer from New Zealand. He has worked in IT, mostly as a programmer, for the last 20 years, often in connection with the publishing industry. For the last 6 years he has been the lead developer at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, a digital library unit within the Library of Victoria University of Wellington. Since 2005 his work at the NZETC has relied on Topic Maps as a platform for online publishing of the Centre's collection of digitised New Zealand and Pacific books. His interests include the digitisation of cultural heritage, text encoding and Topic Maps. Leader Business sector 000000001 000000004 000000005 000000002 A business sector such as industry, public sector, scientific research, non-profit, etc. TM2010: Day 1 Track 2f Track 2 2010-04-15 14:40:00 2010-04-15 15:20:00 Evaluating Open Source Software 2009-03-19 Topic Maps and other semantic technologies are now available in a range of software packages and services, but how are we to choose the most suitable solution? Through its participation in the European development project COSI, Redpill Linpro has developed a framework for evaluating open source software components. The framework is freely available from Redpill Linpro's web site and can be used by anyone to make qualified and documented choices of open source software. 2009-03-19 11:35:00 2009-03-19 11:45:00 Bogachev Dmitry Dmitry Bogachev has been working as a researcher, programmer analyst, consultant, system and enterprise architect for various companies. He is an editor of TMCL, The Topic Maps Constraint Language. He has a special interest in introduction of knowledge based technologies into enterprise environment with the main goal of improving business processes and implementing agile business architecture. Robert Engels +47 99544481 Robert is a project and peer reviewer/referent in a variety of EU projects, several international conferences on AI, Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition, Data Mining & Business Intelligence as well as conferences and workshops on Knowledge Management. Besides being a member of the board in several companies, he owns ESIS Norge AS, a consultancy company specialised on product conceptualisation and implementation for Semantic (Web) Technology. Acting as an international expert, he is reviewer on European IST research projects. He is consultant for several R&D institutions, f.ex. Trondheim Polytechnic (NTNU), Norway and the Western Norwegian Research Institute. He has been a guest lecturer at the BI in Oslo (Norwegian School of Management), Høgskolen i Narvik and the Norwegian Polytechnic for Information Technology (NITH) and coordinates international student exchange (cooperating with the Universities of Amsterdam, Netherlands and Karlsruhe, Germany). He also teached primary school level at the Dutch School in Oslo (NTC). Before starting ESIS Norge, Robert Engels was employed at CognIT a.s (Norway). Presenter at various national- and international conferences and events, ranging from academic (Int. Semantic Web Conference, ICML, ECML, AAAI, etc.) to commercial initiatives (Semantic Days in Oil&Gas, Dutch Microsoft Office Days, etc.). TM2010: Day 1 Track 1e Track 1 2010-04-15 14:20:00 2010-04-15 13:50:00 Bærum Municipality Bærum Municipality TM2010: Day 1 Coffee break (AM3) 2010-04-15 11:15:00 2010-04-15 11:20:00 Panel discussion Lille Festsal 50 UDIR Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training Kolstadgata 1 N-0607 Oslo Norway Karabeg Dino Dino Karabeg is an Associate Professor in the Informatics Department, University of Oslo, where he is developing a new approach to information structuring and use called Polyscopy. Dino was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia. He has a doctorate in altorithm theory from University of California at San Diego. The RAMline – Rewriting Musical History 2008-04-03 The RAMline is a unique multi-dimensional index of music and musicians linked to local digitized archives and other online resources, such as manuscript sources and published editions, live performances and recordings, musical criticism and comment. This index can be used to display a timeline of musical history and the life-cycle of any piece of music, from antiquity to the present, as well as to chart musical profiles of individuals and organizations. It is multi-dimensional in that the index can be explored from the perspectives of people, works, places, events, and dates; it is unique in that the connections between musicians and musical works are categorized in a rigorous yet flexible ontology which makes sense of the processes and products involved. “The scale and nature of this project are ideal to demonstrate fully the benefits of topic maps” (Kal Ahmed, NetworkedPlanet) A unique multi-dimensional index of music and musicians that can be explored from the perspectives of people, works, places, events, and dates; an index linked to local digitized archives and online resources, including manuscript sources, published editions, live performances, recordings, musical criticism and comment. What better match for Topic Maps? 2008-04-04 10:00:00 2008-04-04 10:30:00