On topic types in Topic Maps
A discussion on Svein's blog regarding FreeBase and a comparison of its data model with that of Topic Maps brought up some interesting question regarding Topic Maps that I think are worth discussing. ...
Read | 2008-01-16 18:13 | 4 comment(s)
TMRAP support in the blog
I've been thinking for a while that it's a pity that many of the stories in the blog which are about the same things as the photos in the tmphoto application don't show up in that application. I could of course solve that by allowing myself to add occurrences to some topic types, and then adding references to the relevant blog entries from the photo topic map. ...
Read | 2008-01-10 18:09 | 5 comment(s)
Various Topic Maps Bits and Pieces
I've been gathering a bunch of Topic Maps-related stuff I wanted to draw people's attention to, so I thought I'd just do a blog posting on it all, to get it out of the way. ...
Read | 2007-10-19 20:38 | 0 comment(s)
Leipzig ISO meeting
The ISO meeting during the weekend was, appropriately, held in an intercultural center, because the conference center is closed during the weekend. The meeting room did look a bit odd, but the discussion was sufficiently intense that nobody really noticed. And this committee is in any case used to some unusual meeting rooms. ...
Read | 2007-10-16 00:24 | 0 comment(s)
TMRA 2007 — day 2
The first talk I attended was by Robert Barta on Knowledge-Oriented Middleware using Topic Maps (abstract). He says he had the idea 10 years ago, and that it's only now that he's been able to realize it. What he really wants to do is syndication of Topic Maps content, and to make it possible for Topic Maps fragments to float around a landscape of knowledge syndication peers. ...
Read | 2007-10-13 23:52 | 4 comment(s)
TMRA 2007 — day 1
As usual, the conference was opened by Lutz, who gave a short introduction based around the conference motto of "Scaling Topic Maps". He was followed by my colleague Axel Borge, who gave the sponsor presentation on behalf of Bouvet. Graham Moore did the presentation for NetworkedPlanet. They'd coordinated their talks, and used them to talk about why, in their opinion, Topic Maps have taken off in Norway. In their opinion, part of the reason is the close collaboration between local product vendors and consultants who do the actual projects. ...
Read | 2007-10-11 18:13 | 9 comment(s)
The web's identity crisis and httpRange-14
URIs are used to refer to both information resources (which are downloadable over the net) and abstract concepts and physical objects (which are not). In many contexts there is no way of knowing whether a given URI identifies an information resource or something else, and this has become known as the web's identity crisis. This problem has received most attention in the context of RDF, where it definitely does exist, but it also exists more generally whereever URIs are used for identification (and not just simple addressing of information resources). ...
Read | 2007-10-08 08:54 | 6 comment(s)
The Norwegian Topic Maps market
My boss, Ole-Jørgen Tallaksrud, wrote a short summary of the state of the Norwegian Topic Maps market on request for someone writing a grant application for a research project. I was asked to translate it to English, and thought that this might be useful knowledge for others as well, so I'm posting it here. I guess you could call this "guest blogging." :-) ...
Read | 2007-10-04 09:45 | 3 comment(s)
Heating beer with Python
I think I found a completely new use for the Python programing language while tasting beer with Geir Ove at Cardinal last week. Cardinal is a nearly perfect pub, but they serve their beers too cold. I typically solve this by ordering the beers a bit early, and using my hands. If desperate, I may put the beer on top of my laptop, which usually is quite warm. ...
Read | 2007-09-24 22:24 | 10 comment(s)
tmphoto
You may have noticed that recently the photos used in this blogs have become links, which they weren't before. I know some readers have clicked on them and thought that this was just a link to a bigger version of the photo, but it's actually a lot more than that. Every photo is a topic in a photo topic map, and the link goes to the topic page for that photo, showing it in context. ...
Read | 2007-09-15 19:08 | 7 comment(s)
