[topicmapmail] A somewhat new topic maps format

[Jason Cupp]

Actually, there's a coffee shop near me called the "White Rabbit" and I
mentioned to the proprietor that I had just found a website with an
authority list of rabbit names... they didn't seem to understand the utility
of such a thing.

<rdfs:Class rdf:about="http://www.altheim.com/bunny/">
  <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person"/>
</rdfs:Class>

oh, the possibilities...

I'm actually trying to work in some form of topicmaps into our next software
release to support user-defined controlled vocabulary lists for geospatial
metadata, ISO 19115. May not be XTM, but once it's a part of the sofware,
you've got to support it. I had to start with a more digestible form...

- Jason


| -----Original Message-----
| From: Murray Altheim [mailto:m.altheim@open.ac.uk]
| Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:39 AM
| To: topicmapmail@infoloom.com
| Subject: Re: [topicmapmail] A somewhat new topic maps format
| 
| 
| I've also done something similar. I've developed a version of XTM
| tailored for the Comprehensive Bunny Name List called CBNLXTM,
| which takes that "heck no, I won't interchange" approach in creating
| a syntax that nobody else but me will use. It's easier to validate
| since it has fewer elements (you can use topics instead of 
| associations,
| though they have different semantics), the documents are shorter since
| all element names are only one or two characters long, and it 
| also looks
| a bit like RDF (as it's quite unreadable), since that's very popular
| right now. And it doesn't rely on software at all for its 
| success (given
| that its target audience is rabbits, who rarely turn on a computer).
| 
| See:
| 
|     http://www.altheim.com/bunny/
|     http://www.altheim.com/bunny/cbnlxtm1.dtd
| 
| Jason Cupp wrote:
| > I'm doing something similar, there always seems to be an 
| inclication to
| > simplify things to make validation easier, prototypes 
| quicker to develop,
| > and applications less dependent on Engines & Processors (my 
| caps). I've
| > modified XTM to more resemble RDF, so in the future I could 
| potential go
| > both ways with it:
| > 
| > <topicmap 
| > 	xmlns="http://www.esri.com/metadata/stm/1.0/#" 
| > 	xmlns:esri="http://www.esri.com/metadata/1.0/#"
| > 	xml:base="http://www.esri.com/metadata/lang/1.0/#">
| > 
| > <topic about="http://www.esri.com/metadata/1.0/#language">
| >       <name><nameString>Language</nameString></name>
| > </topic>
| > 
| > <!-- uses xml:base to qualify @id and @scope into a full URI -->
| > <!-- http://www.esri.com/metadata/lang/1.0/#hun is an instanceOf or
| > <rdf:type> of <esri:language> -->
| > <!-- <esri:language> is a kind of <topic> (inferentially, 
| because of <name>
| > ) -->
| > 
| > <esri:language id="hun">
| > 	<name scope="eng">
| >          <nameString>Hungarian</nameString>
| >       </name>
| >       <name scope="fra">
| >          <nameString>hongrois</nameString>
| >       </name>
| >       <name scope="a3t">
| >          <nameString>hun</nameString>
| >       </name>
| >       <name scope="a3b">
| >          <nameString>hun</nameString>
| >       </name>
| >       <name scope="a2">
| >          <nameString>hu</nameString>
| >       </name>
| > </esri:language>
| > ...
| > </topicmap>
| > 
| > 
| > 
| > | -----Original Message-----
| > | From: Alexander Johannesen [mailto:alex@shelter.nu]
| > | Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 3:53 AM
| > | To: topicmapmail@infoloom.com
| > | Subject: [topicmapmail] A somewhat new topic maps format
| > | 
| > | 
| > | Hi,
| > | 
| > | No, this isn't anything fancy or official, but I've made a 
| > | compromising
| > | format of the XTM 1.0 format; Compacted and Simplified XTM 
| > | (CSXTM) that
| > | is a compact and simple version of XTM 1.0, and that is 
| optimized for
| > | speed and ease of use. It was especially made for 
| handling topic maps
| > | in XSLT and similar technologies. Still an early version. 
| Suggestions
| > | are welcome.
| > | 
| > |    Blurb : http://shelter.nu/blog-042.html
| > | 
| > |    CSXTM : http://shelter.nu/csxtm.html
| > | 
| > | 
| > | Kind regards,
| > | 
| > | Alexander
| > | -- 
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