[topicmapmail] publicly available Topic Maps

[Thomas B. Passin]

I wrote about the Liechtenstein web site being built on a topic map -

> 
> Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

>>  
>> | http://llvweb.liechtenstein.li/lisite/html/liechtenstein/index.html.en
>> | | It does not say so on the site itself, but as I understand it, is
>> | created from a topic map.
>>
>> How do you know? (Just curious.)
>>
> 
> I barely remember, but it went something like this.  A year or more ago 
> I saw an online reference to the company that made the site (IIRC, it is 
> a Romanian company), and that they used topic map technology to build 
> it.  I found the company's site (I forget its name just now), and they 
> explained how they had gotten into (the sgml version) of iso 13250 topic 
> maps several years ago as they were trying to build a system of 
> ontologies, and adopted them for the purpose.  Creating some tools to 
> build web sites came about as a byproduct.
> 
> Although I do not recall that the company's own site actually said that 
> they did the Liechtenstein site, it seemed clear enough to me based on 
> the original reference and the fact that the company's core business 
> uses topic maps.
> 
> I will try to dredge up the company's name, but I have no time just now.
> 

Ironically, the information turns out to have come from the Easy Topic 
Map site itself.  Here is what Easy Topic Map says (typos and all)-

"Also there are many others success bussiness initiated by a romanian 
company (http://www.sec.co.ro). You can see one example at 
http://www.liechtenstein.li . SEC is using a mutated version of 
TopicMaps to better fit the user's needs. On this page you can navigate 
in the association's graph in a nice manner. The application SEC made, 
has a adjustable web layout and a set of tools for distributed authoring 
of topics so that many users can work on the same time on the same Map."

If you go to the referenced site (www.sec.co.ro) and select About, you 
will see that they talk about using iso13250-based "editorial system". 
Unfortunately, they display the text with Flash so it cannot be easily 
copied here.

Cheers,

Tom P