[topicmapmail] TMRAP and Seamless Knowledge

[Thomas B. Passin]

Stefan Henke wrote:
> First, let´s explain in short what I´m trying to do using topic maps in my
> thesis. The goal is to provide a framework/interface to access topic maps
> that are distributed in a network in a transparent manner. In other words:
> applications should be able to access topic maps in a network as it is one
> big one. This could be called "topic grid".
> TMRAP looks quite interesting to me and my work. My basic idea was that each
> node in the "topic grid" has to provide an interface/service which can be
> used by applications to query information about hosted topic maps. TMRAP
> looks very similar to what I need. I will take a deeper look into it and I´d
> be happy if I can help to improve TMRAP. What about support in TMRAP in tm4j
> or any other opensource tm-framework?

I'd suggest looking at Patrick Stickler's Uriqa protocol.  True, it is 
as written specific to RDF, but I think it could be very applicable.  I 
have experimented with returning the topic map equivalent of his 
"concise bounded description", and I think it looks very promising.


Patrick introduced this protocol on the RDF interest list, and he pas 
posted a lot of information on it and the thinking behind it.  Also see

http://sw.nokia.com/uriqa/URIQA.html

Cheers,

Tom P