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The Tao of Topic Maps (2000)
maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management.
Steve Pepper is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Ontopia, a company dedicated to the development of high quality topic map software and the provision of consulting and training services. However, before discussing that model in more detail, let us look briefly at some related navigational aids (glossaries and thesauri), and at one common method of knowledge representation in the domain of artificial intelligence (semantic networks), since those will broaden our understanding of the kind of structures we are dealing with. Guidelines for the establishment and development of multilingual thesauri(ISO, Geneva 1985) Ontopia: Learn more about topic maps, http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/learn_more.html Pepper, S.: “Navigating Haystacks, Discovering Needles”, Markup Languages: Theory and Practice, Vol.
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