A good place to mention what's out there regarding topic maps is right up front.
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Here is a brief
listing of important Web sites. (Keep in mind that Web site addresses change from time to time.) After
this list of resources, we'll talk more about what's in this book.
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This list is not intended to be complete. Resources will be updated periodically at the book's official
Web site:
http://www.nexist.org
. The Web being what it is, however, you should always be ready to use
a good search engine.
Topic Maps: General
http://www.topicmaps.org
-- the original XTM Web site.
http://www.topicmaps.net
-- a Web site created by Michel Biezunski and Steven Newcomb.
http://easytopicmaps.com
-- a WikiWiki (Hawaiian for "quick") Web site devoted to topic maps.
Site visitors can add new information or update existing information at this Web site.
http://www.universimmedia.com
-- Bernard Vatant's "Semantopic Map" Web site.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committee/tm-pubsubj/
-- a Web site of the Published Subject
Indicators committee led by Bernard Vatant.
http://topicmaps.bond.edu.au/
-- Robert Barta's topic maps Web site.
Professional XML Meta Data-- a book by Kal Ahmed, Danny Ayers, Mark Birbeck, Jay Cousins,
David Dodds, Josh Lubell, Miloslav Nic, Daniel Rivers-Moore, Andrew Watt, Robert Worden, and
Ann Wrightson, published by Wrox Press (
http://www.wrox.com
), Birmingham, UK, 2001.
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Many of the authors of this recent book are also founders of the XTM Authoring Group.
Topic Map Software: Commercial
http://www.ontopia.net
-- a site by participants in the XTM Authoring Group and creators of the
Ontopia Knowledge Suite; free download available.
http://k42.empolis.co.uk
-- a site by participants in the XTM Authoring Group and creators of K42, a
collaborative environment for capturing, expressing, and delivering knowledge; free download
available.
http://www.mondeca.com
-- a site by participants in the XTM Authoring Group and creators of KIM,
the Knowledge Index Manager.
Topic Map Software: Open Source
http://www.semantext.com
-- the site for the SemanText project discussed in
Chapter 10
.
http://tm4j.sourceforge.net
-- the site for the TM4J project discussed in
Chapter 10
.
http://nexist.sourceforge.net
-- the site for the Nexist project discussed in
Chapter 10