An informative web site about Topic Maps, maintained by
Michel Biezunski (InfoLoom) and
Steven R. Newcomb (Coolheads Consulting)

A Processing Model for Topic Maps

Knowledge Technologies 2001, Austin, March 6 2001.

Steven R. Newcomb and Michel Biezunski

1 A Processing Model For Topic Maps
2 Syntax is only half of the story
3 What is a topic map?
4 Topic Map paradigm: Historical Facts (1)
5 Topic Map paradigm: Historical Facts (2)
6 Topic Map paradigm: Historical Facts (3)
7 Topic Map paradigm: Historical Facts (4)
8 Topic Map paradigm: Historical Facts (5)
9 Topic Map paradigm: Historical Facts (6)
10 Topic Map paradigm: Historical Facts (7)
11 Topic Map paradigm: Historical Facts (8)
12 Topic Map paradigm: Historical Facts (9)
13 Topic Map paradigm: Historical Facts (10)
14 What you need to know
15 A Topic Map Processing Model
16 What is a topic map?
17 What is a topic?
18 Topic Map Graph
19 Subjects and Topics
20 Topics have two aspects
21 When two topics have the same subject...
22 Subjects and Resources
23 Addressability of Subjects
24 Subject Referencing Syntax
25 The Subject Identity Point
26 Two Forms of Associations
27 Associations and Topics
28 Topic Name
29 Topic-basename Associations
30 Basename-variantname Associations
31 Scopes
32 Topic namespaces
33 What gets scoped
34 Occurrence
35 Topic-occurrence Associations
36 More...