[topicmapmail] topic maps ==> site maps

[Kal Ahmed]

In the TM4J project, we are actually in the process of constructing our new 
topic-map driven web-site. So, if you would like to "find out by doing" 
please feel free to volunteer ;-)

Seriously though, there are a number of projects which use topic map as an 
adjunct to or as the main organising principle of the website. Two 
interesting examples are Quid (www.quid.fr) which uses topic map principles 
for navigation between encyclopedia articles, and ITU (www.itu.no) in which 
almost every page in the site is represented as a topic and the page 
content and navigation is entirely generated from the occurrences and 
associations contained within the topic map.

For more information on these, you could read the paper I presented at XML 
2001 on the "business case" for topic maps (www.techquila.com/bcase.html)

Cheers,

Kal


At 23:09 21/02/2002 -0500, Brian Donovan wrote:
>[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
>
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