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There are two approaches to the problem of integrating information, and both are important. The “top-down” approach emphasizes modeling uniformity and modeling power; it generally means defining models and persuading providers of information to understand them, and to make the information they provide conform to them. The bottom-up approach emphasizes modeling diversity and minimality; the idea is to take whatever information is available, and, with or without the provider’s cooperation, to try to make one or more kinds of sense out of it. Each kind of sense is reflected in an ad-hoc model that captures only as much of the internal consistency of the incoming information as was needed for the sense that needed to be made. Our presentation will focus on the bottom-up approach, with the purpose of showing that it offers vital benefits, and that it is feasible, robust, exportable, maintainable and interchangeable.    (2IP5)

2004

2004-04-28: Organization of the Workshop – April 28, 2004, Collaboration Expedition-Emerging Technology Workshop #31 at the NSF on “Multiple Taxonomies” Organized by Michel Biezunski, Coolheads Consulting: Renee Lewis, Pensare, Jayne Dutra, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Kevin Hannon, Consultant, Raul Valdez-Perez, Vivisimo, Leo Obrst, Mitre, Denise Bedford, World Bank, LeeEllen Friedland, Mitre, Eliot Christian, USGS, and Steve Newcomb, Coolheads Consulting. Slides here.

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Introduction to Topic Maps, Internal Revenue Service, Washington DC, August 21, 2001.

RDF and Topic Maps: Something new for everyone, Extreme Markup 01 Conference, Montreal, August 13, 2001

Processing Topic Maps, Tutorial, Extreme Markup 01 Conference, Montreal, August 13, 2001

Making Topic Maps, Tutorial, Extreme Markup 01 Conference, August 13, 2001

Invited Speaker Key Note on Topic Maps, Semantic Web Working Workshop, Stanford University, August 2, 2001.

Topic Maps workshop, XML Europe 2001, May 2001.

What Topic Maps mean, Berlin, XML Europe 2001, May 2001.

Topic Map Technical Workshop, Austin, Texas, March 2001.

InfoLoom Global Knowledge Interchange Workshop and Topic Maps Technical Workshop, Paris, France, January 2001.

2000

Washington, DC, October 2000: InfoLoom Hot Topic Map Workshop

27 October 2000: Presentation on Topic Maps at NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, MD

Chicago, September 2000: InfoLoom Hot Topic Map Workshop

Montreal, Extreme Markup 2000: Topic Maps Workshop + presentation: Late breaking news: Topic Maps – Next Generation

New York City, July 2000, Presentations on Topic Maps at Time, Inc. and Pearsons Education.

Seattle, July 2000, Presentation on Topic Maps at Datachannel, and Boeing.

Topic Maps Go XML, with Steven R. Newcomb, Paris, June 2000, XML Europe 2000.

San Jose, March 2000. Topic Map Workshop at XTech 2000.

University of Berkeley, March 2000: Presentation on Topic Maps.

Washington, January 2000: Topic Map Workshop with Steve Newcomb

1999

Montreal, Metastructures 1999. Topic Map workshop + presentation: Fasten your seatbelt. Topic Map Air welcomes you on board.

Online Publishing using Topic Maps. The case of the Quid Encyclopedia, Philadelphia, XML 99, December 1999.

Topic Maps at a glance, Granada, April 1999, XML 99 Europe Conference.

Tacoma (September 1998: work on the standard)

Montreal, August 1998 (Metastructures 1998), Topic Map Workshop

Managing Information Networks with Topic Maps, GCA SGML/XML Europe 1998, Paris, May 1998

Seattle, (With Steve Newcomb, organized by Datachannel), Topic Map Workshop, 1999

Portland (OGI), Topic Map Workshop, 1999

Dallas (Isogen), Topic Map Workshop, 1999

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XML and Topic Maps, XML 98 Conference, Chicago, November 1998.

Presentation on Topic Maps at Adobe, Oracle, Silicon Graphics, Fujitsu (California)

XML-links, SGML Users’ Group France, Paris, June 1997.

The Topic Map Architecture (with Martin Bryan), GCA SGML Europe 97 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, May 1997.

A Topic Map for SGML 97 Proceedings. A new SGML animal, GCA SGML Europe 97 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, May 1997

December 1996: Topic Map Prototype Presentation, Frank Russell, Tacoma, Washington

A Topic Map of these Conference’s proceedings, Third International HyTime Conference, Seattle, August 1996.

Invisible HyTime, Third GCA International HyTime Conference, Seattle,

July 1996: HyTime/Topic Map Workshop, Campbell, California

June 1996: HyTime/Topic Map Workshop, Paris

SGML, DSSSL and HyTime, Daimler-Benz, Germany, June 1996.

Major trends in Electronic Publishing, Conceptual and Long- term Challenges, Collège international de Philosophie (séminaire de Paul Braffort), in French, 7 May 1996.

December 1995 HyTime/Topic Map Workshop, Boston

EnLIGHTeN, a Topic Map Editor, SGML Users’ Group France, 27 March 1996 (in French).

An SGML/Hytime hyperdocument navigation system, Memoria, European Project, Paris, Nov. 8, 1995.

HyTime : hyperdocuments for libraries, Ministère de la Recherche, Paris, October 4, 1995.

Modeling Topic Maps, Second GCA International HyTime Conference, Vancouver, 16-17 August 1995.

June 1995: HyTime/Topic Map Workshop, Rochester

June 1995: Portland (presentation at OGI)

Topic Map Architecture (with Steven R. Newcomb), OCLC-NCSA meta-data workshop, Dublin, Ohio, March 1995.

Presentation in Singapore with Steven R. Newcomb, GCA Asia-Pacific SGML Conference, 1994

CApH Topic Relationships, First International GCA Conference on the Application of HyTime, July 26-27, 1994, Vancouver.

The Electronic Library Project at EDF-DER, First International GCA Conference on the Application of HyTime, July 26-27, 1994, Vancouver.

Introduction to HyTime and CApH, HyTime Workshop (organized by High Text and TechnoTeacher), Paris, France, July 5-6, 1994.

HyTime and CApH, AECMA Committee, Dassault, Paris, June 1994.

HyTime: Extending the Power of SGML, SGML 93, Rotterdam, 10 mai 1993.

“Introduction to HyTime”, First European HyTime Workshop, Paris, December 1992.

HyTime Scheduling and Space-Time in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, SGML 92, Amsterdam, Netherlands.