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A unique workshop

You will get a license of Topic Map Loom 4X™, an XTM-compliant software product that enables you build topic maps at a glance.

You will be guided through the XTM 1.0 specification by its two founding editors.

A 2-day workshop

if you want to know ...

• How easy it is to make and use topic maps,
• How powerful it is when you look into it in a more detailed way,
• How to understand how to deploy topic map applications,
• Where the topic maps initiatives are going,

You've come to the right place; this workshop is for you.

InfoLoom, Inc. is offering a unique and mind-boggling two-day workshop:

• hands-on. You'll be using topic map software that you'll take home with you; you will be amazed to see how easy it is to use.
• authoritative. The two instructors are founding co-editors of the XTM specification as well as to the ISO Topic Maps standard.

Why you should care

The more online information we have available to us, the more difficult it is to find what we're looking for, even if we know it's somewhere on our own hard disk. On the World Wide Web, the situation is even worse: keyword and full-text searches often return an impracticably large number of hits, and, even so, important resources are overlooked because data, rather than information, is what is being searched.

"Topic Maps" is an emerging information technology that provides a standard, interchangeable navigation layer above diverse information sources. Topic Maps enable us to organize and retrieve information maps for the Web, our Intranets, etc. -- even print materials.

Topic Maps enable their users to retain the value of their ontologies, indexes, catalogs, thesauri, etc. even when they replace or upgrade their computer systems; Topic Maps are interchangeable. For their owners, Topic Maps are highly exploitable assets. Investments made in creating and maintaining topic maps can pay significant dividends when they are easily reused, merged with other topic maps, etc., independently of the software used to produce and maintain them. This opens huge business opportunities for anyone who owns, maintains, or uses (or who needs to own, maintain, or use) almost any kind of information finding aid, for almost any corpus of information.

What you will learn

You will start by creating your own topic maps, directly. Once you have become familiar with the fundamentals, you will receive an overview of the features of the XTM 1.0 specification, and you will learn how it relates to other families of information interchange standards. You will see how topic maps integrate with the ontologies, vocabularies, thesauri, and classification schemas used by various communities (including yours). You will learn how topic maps fit the World Wide Web environment.

Outline

• The problem of finding information
• Topic Maps at a glance
• The XTM specification
• Topics and Subjects
• Topic Names
• Topic Occurrences
• Topic Types
• Associations
• Scopes
• Merging Topic Maps
• Examples of real-world topic maps and strategies to build topic maps.

Duration

This is a 2 day workshop

Price

US $1,700 per participant.

About the Instructors:

The workshop will be instructed by two leading consultants in the XML Industry:

• Michel Biezunski , co-editor of the ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps standard, and founding co-chair of TopicMaps.Org, founding partner of InfoLoom, Inc.
• Steven R. Newcomb , co-editor of the ISO/IEC 10744 HyTime and ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps Standards, founding co-chair of TopicMaps.Org, chair of the Extreme Markup Conferences

Duration

This is a 2 day workshop.

Price

$1,700.00 per person

To register

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