Tutorials

  • Understanding Topic Maps

    Presented by Steve Pepper

    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. (Skill level: Beginner)

  • Introduction to ZTM 3

    Presented by Arnar Lundesgaard

    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. (Skill level: Intermediate)

  • Wandora Workshop

    Presented by Olli Lyytinen

    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. (Skill level: Intermediate)