[topicmapmail] software

[Steve Pepper]

At 09:10 30/01/02 -0600, Dan Wu wrote:
>I just began to study topicmap.
>I have visited a few websites mentioned in this mailing list.
>I want to try some software implementation of topicmaps.
>Could you give me some recommendations on which software
>i should try as a beginner?

In my reply to another question I pointed you towards the Omnigator, 
Ontopia's free topic map browser. This is essentially a teaching aid to 
help people understand topic map concepts and test their own topic maps. 
You can download it for free from

    http://www.ontopia.net/download/freedownload.html

It installs quite easily on any platform, provided you have already 
installed the Java SDK v1.3 or higher.

With it you get an bunch of example topic maps, a user manual, and a short 
tutorial on how to create your own topic maps. Once you have created your 
own topic map (in XTM, HyTM or LTM syntax), you can browse it using the 
Omnigator. It has quite extensive functionality, including the ability to 
merge multiple topic maps, perform scope-based filtering, provide a report 
of your topic map's statistics, full-text index your topic maps (including 
occurrences), etc.

(For those who haven't tried the Omnigator recently, we are now at version 
1.2.5 and getting better all the time :-)

Best regards,

Steve

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Steve Pepper, Chief Executive Officer <pepper@ontopia.net>
Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3  Editor, XTM (XML Topic Maps)
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