Dear Information Architects,
topic map-based information architecture is a hot topic,
e.g. for the
virtual, subject-oriented integration of portal content,
or the flexible content repurposing after aggregation.
see e.g.
http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tm-vs-t
hesauri.html
http://www.digital-web.co
m/articles/standards_for_distributed_information_architectur
e/
http://www.networkedplanet.com/download/tm-we
bsite-architecture.pdf
http://www.tech
quila.com/tmsinia.html
As one of the co-chairs of TMRA 2006, the international
conference on
Topic Maps research and applications,
I herewith invite you to submit to this conference, whether
with a
theoretical or a practical advancement.
Please contact me directly should you have any questions
concerning this
conference.
Best regards
Alexander Sigel
Alexander Sigel, M.A., Researcher in Semantic Knowledge
Networking
Univ. of Cologne, Dept. of Information Systems &
Information Management
http://www.wim.
uni-koeln.de/19.0.html
sigel wim.uni-koeln.de, +49 221 470-5322
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* Call for Papers *
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TMRA
Topic Maps Research and Applications
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TMRA 2006 - LEVERAGING THE SEMANTICS
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October 11-12th 2006, Leipzig, DE
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* Submission Deadline: June, 2nd *
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http://www
.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra
http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2
006/cfp/TMRA2006_cfp.pdf
Objectives and Background
----------------------------
TMRA – the annual conference series on Topic Maps Research
and
Applications - is a scientific and industrial forum whose
main object is
connecting the key players in the Topic Maps community. Here
you will
find researchers, users in government and industry, as well
as the
vendors, the luminaries, and the standards creators gathered
for an
exchange of ideas in a stimulating setting. TMRA is where
new challenges
in Topic Maps are identified and open issues tackled.
Topic Maps is a semantic technology designed for the
integration of
information and knowledge, and as such it is closely
connected with
other information-centric technologies. TMRA is the melting
pot where
Topic Maps meets adjacent technologies. Researchers and
application
pioneers from related disciplines are explicitly invited to
present
their efforts towards the advancement of semantic
technologies.
Besides the keynotes, presented by leading heads of the
Topic Maps
community, there are science- and industry-oriented parallel
tracks.
Also poster presentations and demonstrations will be
accepted, and the
latest ideas from the community are presented in the more
informal
open-space sessions.
"Leveraging the Semantics"
---------------------------
Topic Maps have a rich semantic model that is well designed
to support
information retrieval in general, but can also be used for
an almost
unlimited range of other applications. How can the semantics
of this
model best be leveraged in practice? What are the main open
issues for
the use of Topic Maps? Where is the place of Topic Maps in
the muddle of
semantic technologies? Finding answers to these questions
will be the
challenge of TMRA 2006; you are invited to contribute your
best efforts.
TMRA is the melting pot where Topic Maps meets adjacent
technologies.
Researchers and application pioneers from adjoining
disciplines are
explicitly invited to present their efforts in the
advancement of
semantic technologies. Some examples, from a remarkably
incomplete
listing, are:
markup languages, data modelling, artificial intelligence,
natural
language processing, cognitive science, philosophy and
software
engineering. Mutual discussions of current efforts support
to leverage
the semantics in Topic Maps technologies.
Topics of TMRA 2006
-----------------------
Topics of the conference (scientific and industrial track,
poster
sessions) include but are not limited to the following
objectives:
Leveraging the Semantics
------------------------
- Why are Topic Maps a semantic technology?
- Learning from other semantic web efforts
- Topic Maps as part of the semantic web
- Semantic Desktops and Topic Maps
- Topic Mapping and social software
- PSIs in heterogeneous environments
- Recommendations for PSI sets
- Reasoning with topic maps
- Rule Languages and topic maps
Standard related Topic Maps research
---------------------------------------
- Topic Map standards - state of the art and further
developments
- Query, update and constrain topic maps
- Living with XTM 2.0
- Deploying the TMRM
- Towards a general theory of scope. The next step.
Theoretic Topic Maps research
--------------------------------
- Overview of current Topic Maps research efforts
- Topic maps diff
- Creating topic maps views of various data sources
- Synchronizing topic maps against external data sources
- Connecting theories about the knowledge economy and Topic
Maps
- Topic Maps modelling methodologies
- Graphical modelling languages for Topic Maps
- Topic Maps and DITA
Applied Topic Maps research
------------------------------
- Overview of innovative Topic Maps applications
- Topic Maps driven portals and information environments
- Topic Maps visualization
- Topic Maps and web services
- Automatic generation of topic maps
- Topic Maps and business processes
- Topic Maps in knowledge and content management
- Topic Maps in news aggregation
- Enterprise information integration (EII) and Topic Maps
- Topic Maps in mobile environments and on mobile devices
- Topic Maps Services and Hosting
For the scientific track, we invite the submission of full
papers to be
published in the proceedings (LNCS/LNAI, Springer foreseen).
For the industrial track, we invite the submission of short
papers to be
published in the proceedings (LNCS/LNAI, Springer foreseen)
or
presentation proposals.
In addition, posters and demonstrations can be submitted.
Open-Space Sessions
-----------------------
In addition to the presentation track, TMRA 2006 provides
slots and
locations for open-space sessions, like brainstorming for
research and
business projects. You are highly encouraged to stage such
open-space
sessions!
Submission
-----------
We invite original, high quality papers with substantial
contributions.
The proceedings of TMRA are foreseen to be published by
Springer in the
LNCS/LNAI series as post-proceedings. The conference
language is English.
Submission deadline is June, 2nd 2006.
Program Committee
---------------------
Lutz Maicher (Chair) [University of Leipzig, DE]
Lars Marius Garshol (Co-Chair) [Ontopia, NO]
Alexander Sigel (Co-Chair) [Univ. of Cologne, DE]
Kal Ahmed [NetworkedPlanet, UK]
Frederic Andres [NII, JP]
Robert Barta [Bond University, AU]
Michel Biezunski [Infoloom, US]
Dmitry Bogachev [Omega B. Consulting, CA]
Karsten Böhm [FHS Kufstein, AT]
François Bry [University of Munich, DE]
Darina Dicheva [Winston Salem Univ., US]
Patrick Durusau [US]
Eric Freese [LexisNexis, US]
Sung-Kook Han [Wong Kwang University, KR]
Gerhard Heyer [University of Leipzig, DE]
Hiroyuki Kato [NII, JP]
Peter-Paul Kruijsen [Morpheus Software, NL]
Jaeho Lee [University of Seoul, KR]
James D. Mason [Y-12 Nat. Sec. Compl., US]
Graham Moore [NetworkedPlanet, UK]
Sung Hyon Myaeng [IUC, KR]
Steven R. Newcomb[Coolheads Consulting, US]
Jan Nowitzky [Deutsche Börse Systems, DE]
Leo Obrst [MITRE, US]
Jack Park [SRI International, US]
Steve Pepper [Ontopia, NO]
Rani Pinchuk [Space Application Services, BE]
Ray Richardson [Bell Laboratories, IE]
Thomas Schwotzer [Berlin Univ. of Techn., DE]
Stefan Smolnik [European Business School, DE]
Steffen Staab [University of Koblenz, DE]
Markus Ueberall [University of Frankfurt, DE]
Fabio Vitali [University of Bologna, IT]
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Hey,
On 2/14/06, andrewfriendlymanual.com <andrewfriendlymanual.com> wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
Hey. 
Ok, so I'm not *that* Alexander, but I'll have a stab at
this anyways ;
> I suppose this is a question for everyone: how many
people are still using topic
> maps, and how many people have abandoned them for SKOS
(Simple Knowledge
> Organisation System)?
I use both at the same time. SKOS is
basically an ontology (a set
of words and relationships that is defined in the
specification called
SKOS) that I can easily reuse in Topic Maps.
> I've used topic maps in the past but recently came
across SKOS, and am curious
> about real-world applications of the 'replacement'.
I reckon SKOS is in fairly low use, given its young age.
There is no
replacement per se; The good thing about SKOS is that an
ontology is
defined and standardised, but there is an assumed RDF at the
bottom of
it. Luckily this can be replaced with Topic Maps quite
easily, and
made even easier these days with the DRF/Topic Maps
Interoperability
Guidelines (http://ww
w.ontopia.net/work/guidelines.html).
Alex
--
"Ultimately, all things are known because you want to
believe you know."
-
Frank Herbert
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