[topicmapmail] ANNOUNCEMENT: empolis published "The Topic Maps Handbook"

[Rath, Holger (empolis KL)]

ANNOUNCEMENT
empolis published "The Topic Maps Handbook"

empolis proudly announces the publication of 
"The Topic Maps Handbook" written by H. Holger 
Rath (= me). 

You will discover first hand which role topic 
maps play in the field of knowledge management, 
what a typical application could look like, how 
topic maps can be generated and of course, find 
a detailed introduction into this fascinating 
technology with numerous examples. The quality 
of the publication even convinced Standards 
Australia. The Australian publisher is going to 
publish it as part of its knowledge management 
initiative as a Standards Australia Handbook - 
enriched with additional cross-references to its 
Knowledge Management Framework.

The empolis white paper "The Topic Maps Handbook" 
is available free of charge in the download center 
of the empolis web site under the category 
"Publications & Presentations"
(http://www.empolis.com/download/down_ove.asp). 

Enjoy reading!

This handbook builds on the experience the author, 
H. Holger Rath (= I) has gathered conducting many 
topic map tutorials and workshops over the last 
few years. Holger is head of the German delegation 
for the ISO committee responsible for the topic 
map standard. He is co-editor of ISO's Topic Map 
Query Language standard and chair of the OASIS 
Technical Committee 'Vocabulary for XML Standards 
and Technologies'. As Head of Consulting at empolis, 
a content management and knowledge management 
solutions provider owned by Bertelsmann, he knows 
both the market requirements as well as the technical 
possibilities.