IRS Tax Map

TaxMap is a product that we make in cooperation with Plexus Scientific and Coolheads Consulting for the Internal Revenue Service.

TaxMap is an electronic research tool used by telephone call sites as well as by taxpayers. TaxMap is based on a network navigational model (Topic Maps), which enables research by subject. It has been designed to be easy to use, and its production does not require any change in workflow. TaxMap is made using a combination of automatic processes and human input by IRS tax experts. We use TMLoom to produce TaxMap.

TaxMap contains the IRS forms, instructions, and publications, the tax law Frequently Asked Questions, and TeleTax topics. Versions available to the public contain IRS forms and instructions and the IRS publications.

TaxMap exploits the extensive use of XML and SGML at IRS.

The TaxMap version for assistors is available only on the IRS Intranet.

Two CD-ROMs are published that contain Taxmap. They can be ordered from the IRS online.

Click here to order the Tax Products CD (Publication 1796).

Click here to order the Small Business Resource Guide CD.

TaxMap is available for browsing at several sites, including Missouribusiness.net

Presentations of Tax Map

2006-03-08. Topic Mapping: An inventor's perspective. History, Present and Future. Illustrated with TaxMap, a Topic Map implementation at the IRS, Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia XML Users Group.

"The IRS Tax Map", Michel Biezunski, presented at XML Europe 2003 Conference, May 5-8, 2003, London, UK.

IEML Dictionary

Dictionary of IEML, the Information Economy MetaLanguage, a project by Pierre Lévy at the University of Ottawa.

The IEML Dictionary is produced using a technology called Versavant.

Egov Conferences

SecureEbiz Executive Summit and Open Standards/Open Source Conference

GCA Conference Proceedings since 1996

The first navigable information network for a conference proceedings, for the HyTime International Conference, in Seattle in 1996, was produced by Michel Biezunski as a proof of concept for topic maps. The SGML Europe 1997 Conference proceedings were published using an improved version of the technology. Over the years, these CD-ROMs served to showcase the technology and to promote the idea of topic maps for information networks in the SGML/XML community. The information networks produced up until the XML Europe 2000 Conference have been combined and are now available as a merged information network on the Web.

GCA Conferences on SGML/XML/HyTime since 1996.

The Quid Encyclopedia, version 2000

This online version of the Quid Encyclopedia (2000 Edition) was navigable internally as a information network. It had been produced using the TM Loom^TM technology. The information network resulted from retrofitting the printed index.

This information network contained approximately 80,000 topics.

Information Network Prototypes

• Wrox Press
• Mondeca
• Wolters-Kluwer

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Page created October 16, 2006. Last updated February 18, 2007.