[topicmapmail] Topic Maps and Libraries

[Thompson, Miles]

A european country huh?

Anyone want to take bets its a country somewhere north of Poland?

He he

Miles
(who-knows-nothing-whatsoever-about-the-particular-project-but-figures-a
-bit-of-levity-never-hurt-anyone) Thompson

 

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> From: topicmapmail-bounces at infoloom.com 
> [mailto:topicmapmail-bounces at infoloom.com] On Behalf Of 
> Alexander Johannesen
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:18 p.m.
> To: topicmapmail at infoloom.com
> Cc: Stringer-Hye, Suellen
> Subject: Re: [topicmapmail] Topic Maps and Libraries
> 
> On 5/12/07, Steve Pepper <pepper.steve at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'll assume Alex Johannessen reads your post and responds 
> directly. If 
> > not, seek him out. He is a Topic Maps expert who spent 
> several years 
> > at the National Library in Australia.
> 
> I think we can assert this for sure. :) I've talked with 
> Suellen before; how did the TM talk go in the end?
> 
> Yeah, I'm still here, but there's not too much Topic Maps 
> going on here, apart from a few bits and pieces behind the 
> scenes. I'd point to http://nationaltreasures.nla.gov.au/ as 
> an example of a fully TM application, then there's a oral 
> history project in the back-room (where it's been for about 
> two years) as well, and we were meaning to make more of these 
> kinds of mini-websites, but without going to go into a 
> political rap I'd just say that I'm not perticulary proud of 
> that site (at least, the purpose, visual direction and use of
> metadata) apart from some of the backend.
> 
> At the library here we've been too far preoccupied with 
> saving ourselves from ourselves with a new infrastructure 
> for, uh, everything, which seems to have settled in the 
> RESTful SOA area somewhere. I've got a number of backend 
> frameworks doing some heavy lifting here, and a the main GUI 
> pipeline has got Topic Maps support built in (well, it's 
> built on the TMRM, to put it that way) so I guess you could 
> say there's more coming, but I couldn't point out right now 
> what that might be.
> 
> > Finally, there's a company in Korea specializing in software for 
> > libraries that I know has been looking into the use of Topic Maps. 
> > Their name is INEK (www.inek.co.kr).
> 
> There's Conal Tuohy
> (http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/NZETC-About-fig-staff_conal.html)
> somewhere on this list who's also doing library stuff, 
> although I don't know his exact librarynessish these days. :)
> 
> I also am in talks with some librarians from a European 
> country who's creating a large Topic Maps based 
> country-connecting portal of sorts, but it's still terribly 
> early days, which, as things go, can mean that it might not 
> go in this or that direction. I'll ask around if this is info 
> I can share.
> 
> 
> Alex
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