[topicmapmail] Topic Map Seminar in Alexandria VA July 16 2002

[Michel Biezunski]

Topic Map Seminar: Content Aggregation Using Topic Maps 
hosted by Idealliance

July 16, 2002 

IDEAlliance Headquarters
100 Daingerfield Road
Alexandria, VA  

Registration, cost: see
http://www.idealliance.org/resources_tmseminar.asp

CONTENT AGGREGATION USING TOPIC MAPS

A one-day seminar presented by Michel Biezunski and
Steven R. Newcomb (Coolheads Consulting).

This seminar is for decision makers who are interested
in learning how to manage and exploit increasingly
massive and diverse information source in terms of the
meanings and relevancies of their contents. If the
volume and/or diversity of your information resources
are preventing you from fully exploiting them, you will
find this seminar eye-opening and valuable.

We will focus on how the Topic Maps standard (ISO
13250) suggests and implies solutions. With this
paradigm, ontologies become interchangeable on a global
scale, but more significantly, the contents of
different knowledge bases can be usefully merged on an
ongoing basis, even if they are designed and maintained
independently of one another.

We will describe existing Topic Map projects,
highlighting their semantic integration aspects. We
will discuss how information management policies can
preserve the independence and value of heterogeneous,
multi-lingual, multi-perspective approaches, even while
fulfilling requirements for usefulness in new markets
and for enterprise integration and transparency.

Syllabus:

- The problem of information interchange. The issues:
  where we are in respect to the ability to transmit
  meaning.

- What XML can do, and what it can't. 
- Scaling issues. 
       . Central repositories and user community
         boundaries.
       . Diversity: e.g. multilingual aspects of
         information. 
- The Topic Map Paradigm as a Solution to
  transmit meaning. 
       . High level, neutral constructs: The
         topic-based high-level model. 
       . The underlying machinery: assertion-based 
         model. 
- Case studies.

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Michel Biezunski
Coolheads Consulting
1527 Northaven Drive
Allen, TX 75002-1648
Email:mb@coolheads.com
Web  :http://www.coolheads.com
Voice: (469) 675-1000
Fax  : (972) 359-0270
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