[topicmapmail] topic maps ==> site maps

[Brian Donovan]

[Obligatory apology in advance for what might be a less than clueful 
inquiry (I'm a longtime lurker and first-time poster to this list).]

I'm building a site-management tool (primarily for my own use) and have 
been working my way through some topic maps reading ("The TAO of Topic 
Maps" at http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2000/papers/s11-01.html, the 
Bond University tm tutorial at http://topicmaps.bond.edu.au/tutorial1/, 
etc.) this evening.  

I'm curious whether any list members know of a site where topic maps 
have been or are being generated alongside or as an intermediate step in 
the production of a site map / site-map-like thing.  I'm thinking 
especially of something like what one finds at the bottom of the CNN.com 
front page (under the "MORE FROM CNN.com" header). It seems to me that 
TM'ing a weblog-type site, a wiki, or some other frequently-updated site 
could facilitate the creation of a more useful and/or informative type 
of sitemap.

Alternatively, have any of the tm ninjas here considered turning out a 
tutorial on the subject?  I found a few paragraphs on generating a topic 
map from an RSS 1.0 channel in a 2001 XML.com article ("Building a 
Semantic Web Site" at 
http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2001/05/02/semanticwebsite.html), but that 
wasn't quite what I had in mind.  

Thanks,

- Brian Donovan