Victoria University of Wellington Heimo Hänninen +358 456 703329 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. TM2007: Track 3 (cont) Track 3 2007-03-21 16:00:00 2007-03-21 13:30:00 Isen smelter – kan Topic Maps hjelpe? Isen smelter – kan Topic Maps hjelpe? 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 13:30:00 2007-03-21 2007-03-21 14:00:00 Under consideration Topic Maps Portals for Real Life Topic Maps Portals for Real Life: Student projects at the University of Leipzig 2007-03-21 16:00:00 2007-03-21 15:30:00 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 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). Marit Lofnes Mellingen 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). +47 47252209 TM2007: Conference Day Wednesday March 21 2007-03-21 3 Bajracharya Rajan Man BE/ Computer Science & Engineering, Karnataka, India, 1994-1999. Public sector Subject Short name Canada Wang Bjørn +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. Standard Norway City Government agency University of Minho Mæhle Åsmund +47 93248278 Biezunski Michel 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. Subject locator Bergen's Citizens Portal How can local government use Topic Maps to make life easier for its citizens 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. 2007-03-21 09:40:00 2007-03-21 Room 000000008 000000011 000000010 000000009 The Second International Topic Maps Users Conference Topic Maps 2008 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   !graphics/NO.png(Norwegian)!:http://www.topicmaps.com/tm2008/flyer-NO.pdf   !graphics/DE.png(German flyer)!:http://www.topicmaps.com/tm2008/flyer-DE.pdf 2008 2008-04-04 Towards the Vision of Subject-Centric Computing 2008-04-02 Everything is Miscellaneous Everything is Miscellaneous 2008-03-04 10:00:00 2008-03-04 09:00:00 2008-03-04 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. 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) Knowledge Management and Workforce Rehabilitation 2008-04-03 2008-04-03 17:00:00 2008-04-03 17:30:00 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. 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. Address 3 2008::03 Introduction to Ontology Design Introduction to Ontology Design Ontology Design 2 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. 2008-04-02 12:00:00 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. 27 2008-04-02 09:00:00 Telefax Session 000000216 000000234 000000235 000000225 A named part of a larger event, consisting of one or more presentations, etc. Oslo Ravn Private sector Has role regjeringen.no – where Topic Maps and Search govern the user experience Topic Maps and Search 2007-03-21 10:30:00 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. 2007-03-21 11:05:00 2007-03-21 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. Number University of Oslo Library Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo Postboks 1085 Blindern N-0317 Oslo Norway 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. Enterprise Knowledge Integration Using Topic Maps Enterprise Knowledge Integration 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. 2008-04-03 15:00:00 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 14:30:00 Heuer Lars Student of Computer Science in Oldenburg, Germany. Editor of the Compact Topic Maps syntax (CTM). Works with Robert Barta on the AsTMa= syntax. Verhoeff Jelte +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. Belgium Beginner DITA and Topic Maps: Bringing the Pieces Together 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. 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. 2008-04-03 2008-04-03 15:00:00 2008-04-03 15:30:00 Is read-only Visions of Subject-Centric Computing 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 2008-04-04 France 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 14:00:00 2006-03-29 Wednesday April 2 TM2008: Tutorial Day 6 2008-04-02 2008::05 Topic Map Design Patterns Topic Map Design Patterns 2008-04-02 09:00:00 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. 17 2008-04-02 12:00:00 3 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! Germany Superordinate Role Type 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. 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. 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. Stümpflen Volker +49-89-3187-3619 Group Manager Logica Strømsveien 102 Postboks 6432, Etterstad 0605 Oslo Snowflake Software Default Cardinality Awaiting proposal Logo Polyscopic Topic Maps in Flexible E-learning and Collaborative Knowledge Creation Polyscopic Topic Maps 2007-03-21 11:05:00 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. 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 10:30:00 Panel discussion Information Integration, Topic Maps and the Struggle for Peace 2008-04-03 2008-04-03 11:00:00 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 11:30:00 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. Portugal Austria Pidgin English for Topic Maps Pidgin English for Topic Maps Knowledge Engineering 2007-03-21 11:40:00 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 2007-03-21 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=. And What of Indexes? And What of Indexes? 2007-03-21 14:00:00 2007-03-21 14:30:00 2007-03-21 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. Fallet Birte +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. Leader TM2008: Day 1 Opening plenary Opening plenary 2008-04-03 10:30:00 2008-04-03 09:00:00 Navigating the Production Maze Navigating the Production Maze: The Topic Mapped Enterprise 2007-03-21 15:30:00 2007-03-21 2007-03-21 16:00:00 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. Is abstract Thursday April 3 TM2008: Conference Day 1 2008-04-03 2 Full text The full text of a document, such as a call, news item, etc. Scope note: The contents are interpreted as Textile markup. 78 10 Venue for Venue Takes place in TM2007: Track 3 Track 3 2007-03-21 10:30:00 2007-03-21 12:15:00 Comperio 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. Concordia University Ibsens skrifter på nett ved hjelp av emnekart Ibsens skrifter på nett 2006-03-29 11:00:00 2006-03-29 11:30:00 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. Ontology Version Coffee and exhibition TM2008: Day 1 Coffee break (AM) 2008-04-03 10:30:00 2008-04-03 11:00:00 Elise Østbø Jansen TM2008: Conference Day 2 Friday April 4 2008-04-04 2 Suellen Stringer-Hye CSW Group 2008::09 Application Development with Ruby Topic Maps Application Development with Ruby Topic Maps 2008-04-02 09:00:00 7 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. 5 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. 2008-04-02 12:00:00 Digital Insight Nedre Vollgt 8 NO-0158 Oslo Norway Aki Kivelä 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. The Shape of Topic Maps to Come 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... 2006-03-29 16:15:00 2006-03-29 17:00:00 2006-03-29 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. Organized by Organized by Organizer of University College Oslo Ordinal A property that captures the order of some event or other subject within a particular context. 4 Supertype/subtype Subtype of Supertype of Arbo Unie Daltonlaan 500 3584 BK Utrecht Netherlands Den Norske Veritas Norwegian Computer Society Møllergata 24 Oslo Norway Graham Moore 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. Eirik Befring 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. Creuna Tullins gate 4c 0166 Oslo Norway Automated Classification Topic Maps and Automated Classification 2007-03-21 11:40:00 2007-03-21 11:05:00 2007-03-21 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. Ann Wrightson Ahmed Kal 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. Location Haraldsen Arild +47 90199531 University of Leipzig Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! 2006-03-29 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 09:45:00 Questpoint Gjerdrums vei 12 N-0484 Oslo Norway Committee Leader