[topicmapmail] topic maps ==> site maps

Kal Ahmed kal@techquila.com
Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:15:14 +0000


At 09:49 22/02/2002 +0000, Kal Ahmed wrote:
>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)

Of course, this was just a little test to see how observant you all are ;-)

I'll repost the *complete* paper and notify the list later today.

Cheers,

Kal