XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web
English | 2002-07-26 | ISBN: 0201749602 | 640 pages | PDF | 6 mb
XML Topic Maps (XTM) represent a powerful new tool for transforming the
Web from a vast, chaotic sea of data into a highly usable information
resource. XML Topic Maps is the first comprehensive, authoritative guide
to this new technology. Edited by Jack Park, a leader of the XTM
community, with contributions from leading members of the community, it
covers every aspect of XML Topic Map creation and usage. Drawing on the
XTM 1.0 standard, a complete XML grammar for interchanging Web-based
Topic Maps, this book shows how XML Topic Maps can be utilized as an
enabling technology for the new "Semantic Web," in which information is
given well-defined meaning, making it possible for computers and people
to cooperate more effectively than ever before. Coverage includes:
creating, using, and extending XML Topic Maps; ontological engineering;
and the use of XML Topic Maps to create next-generation knowledge
representation systems and search tools. Park shows how to use Topic
Maps to visualize data; how Topic Maps relate to RDF and semantic
networks; and finally, how Topic Maps presage a profound paradigm shift
in the way information is represented, shared, and learned on the
Internet and everywhere else. For every Web designer, developer, and
content specialist concerned with delivering and sharing information in
more useful and meaningful forms.
