[topicmapmail] More newbie than Josema?

[fabrizio ulisse]

Hello topicmappers,

I'm an IA from Italy, very very newbie about topic maps and related
stuff, but very very interested in general concepts behind this new
tool? technology? Philosophy? Choose all that apply :)

This year I also had the chance to talk about Topic Maps during a
lecture at the University o Milan (MIU - Master in IT for humanists
http://www.disco.unimib.it/mastermiu/), about the promise of semantic
web as a corner stone for a glorious future of a web based on rich
concepts vs. dull data. 

But, after the theory there's practice (and B. Sterling will excuse me
if I revert the order of pop culture), and I really would like to go
deep inside this issue, starting with real xml coding, and this is where
I stopped - maybe too stupid? My primary concern is that I cannot figure
out how to practically start mapping stuff. I can see myself flying over
immense territories, seeing complex many-to-many relations between
territories (forgive my ugly poetry, it's been a hard day), but then I
have to fly down and start conceptualize, and the kind of answers to
Josema didn't help me.

So, can someone help me start from... somewhere? 

Thanks to anyone for the patience to read this nonsense 'til here :)

- fabrizio ulisse
  www.architecto.org