[topicmapmail] FW: XML SIG 15 Oct: Sam Hunting on "Topic maps: Delivering finding aids that really find using RESTful web services"

[Robert McKinnon]

For those of you in New York this month:

-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Perry [mailto:wperry@xml-sig.org] 
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 2:39 PM
Subject: XML SIG 15 Oct: Sam Hunting on "Topic maps: Delivering finding
aids that really find using RESTful web services"


The next meeting of the XML Special Interest Group will be Tuesday, 15
October, 7-9 p.m., at Goldman Sachs Training Center, 125 Broad Street.
The speaker will be Sam Hunting on "Topic maps: Delivering finding aids
that really find using RESTful web services."

The presentation has two parts. Part I demonstrates how topic maps can
meet the requirement for creating finding aids that really find. It
gives an overview of the process of designing and building topic maps,
considers alternatives to topic maps, and gives guidelines for when not
to use topic maps. A federated classification system is demonstrated
that combines two business-oriented taxonomies -- the SIC (Standard
Industrial codes) and NAICS (North American Industrial Codes) -- so that
users can move seamlessly from one taxonomy to the other.

Part II shows how to deliver topic maps as web services using the REST
architecture and the retooled Goose topic map server
(http://www.gooseworks.org; note new hyphen-less URL). Goose is an open
source topic map server designed to be RESTful. Therefore, it has HTTP
built in, and provides direct access to topic map information through
URIs using an ordinary browser. The result is an extremely efficient
RESTful implementation.

This is Sam Hunting's second presentation to the XML SIG. Sam is the
president of eTopicality, Inc., a consultancy whose service offerings
include topic maps, content analysis, and taxonomy and DTD development.
He was a founding member of TopicMaps.Org, which developed the XML Topic
Maps (XTM) specification. He is a co-author of the XTM 1.0 DTD. He is
the technical editor of XML Topic Maps: Creating and Maintaining Topic
Maps for the Web, from Addison-Wesley. He is a co-founder of the
GooseWorks project for creating open source topic map tools
(http:/www.gooseworks.org) and has been working with markup technology
for over 10 years. (http://www.etopicality.com)

To reserve a place at this meeting, or to subscribe to our email list
for announcement of future meetings, please send a request by email
direct to me mailto:wperry@xml-sig.org. (Please note new XML SIG
address.) You will receive a confirmation by return email. Security
requires that those attending this meeting be registered at least a day
in advance so that their names are available to check against attendance
at the door. Please register before Monday, 14 October, to insure that
you will be admitted.

Walter Perry
XML SIG Leader


 Save these dates--Upcoming Sessions

12 November:  John Cowan--Topic to be Announced
17 December:  Gavin Thomas Nicol presents LMNL (http://lmnl.org/)
January 2003:  Patrick Durusau presents JITTs (http://jitts.org/)