[topicmapmail] Making ontologies : RDF vs TM

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Vincent Godefroy
| 
| Is there any documents, white papers on making ontologies with xtm ?

One resource you could try is Holger Rath's "The Topic Maps Handbook":

<URL: http://www.empolis.com/downloads/empolis_TopicMaps_Whitepaper20030206.pdf >

You might also find some of the stuff Kal Ahmed has written useful:

<URL: http://www.techquila.com/tmsinia.html >
<URL: http://www.techquila.com/blog/archives/000039.html >

Ontopia has some resources on this, but it's primarily training
courses you have to pay to attend. There is, however, this paper,
which may be helpful:

<URL: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/xmlconf.html >

| Google replies me with a lot of stuff with RDF/RDFS and OWL.

Not so strange. The OWL people do tend to call their things
"ontologies" much more often than topic map people call what they do
"ontologies". 

It's also a question of what you mean by "ontology". The word has been
used to mean *many* different things.
 
| How can we see TM in the web semantic effort ?

Good question. I think the best answer so far has come from Steve
Pepper, who said that topic maps are not about the semantic web, but
rather about seamless knowledge, which is similar, but different.

See

  <URL: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/Towards%20Seamless%20Knowledge.ppt >
  <URL: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/Seamless%20Knowledge%20with%20TMRAP.ppt >

I hope this helps, or at least helps you ask a better question. :)

-- 
Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian         <URL: http://www.ontopia.net >
GSM: +47 98 21 55 50                  <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >