[topicmapmail] topicmaps for bibliographic databases?

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Guenther Neher
| 
| (1) Do you know of any running projects out there, working
|     on the question, IF and HOW semantic web technologies
|     could be used to improve access to bibliographic databases ?

There are quite a few projects out there working on making masses of
documents easier to navigate using topic maps. I am not sure if you
would consider all of them "bibliographic" in a strict sense, but
there certainly is a lot of similar activity.

The ones I know of are all our customers, and I'm not really free to
throw around their names, but there are quite a few such projects.
What was it you wanted to know about such projects?
 
| [...] As citation is an important relation within the scientific
| community assume we had defined an association 'cites' between Pub1
| and Pub2. Assume further that we were even able to detect the
| context, in which the citation is made (say by analyzing the
| sentence where the citation occurs, e.g.  "... As X has
| shown... [Pub2].".
|
| [...]
|
| HOW should a 'context'-topic be tied to the association 'cites' ?

That depends on what the 'context' is. You have to be much more
precise before it is possible to answer this question, actually.  What
would be most useful would probably be if you could post 3-5 examples
of actual citations that we could look at and consider how to
represent.
 
| My first idea was to use <scope> but the XTM-examples i found suggest,
| that the number of different scopes within a topicmap tend to be rather
| small (e.g. scoping by 2 or 3 different languages, or scoping by
| 2 or 3 learning-levels (beginner, professional).
| In our case 'context' could be 1 of over 1000 thesaurus-terms.
|
| Does that make sense - having 1000 scopes or more ?

Absolutely. But it's not clear that that's what you need for this.

| How would you do?

You just create topic characteristics in all these scopes. Creating 1
scope and 10'000 scopes is just a matter of doing the same thing many
times. 

Or did I misunderstand your question?

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