Steve Pepper

Biography

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 and chairs the annual Topic Maps Users Conference.

Presentations at Topic Maps 2008

Understanding Topic Maps

Creating Topic Maps

Everything is a Subject

Visions of Subject-Centric Computing

Other presentations

Understanding Topic Maps (Topic Maps 2009)

The Shape of Topic Maps to Come (Topic Maps 2006)