[topicmapmail] More newbie than Josema?

[Jack Park]

Fabrizio,
I don't mean to "toot my horn" too loudly, but there is a book _XML 
Topic Maps_ published by Addison-Wesley in 2002 that might give you some 
concrete basis for your research.

Cheers
Jack

fabrizio ulisse wrote:

>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
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