tmproc: A Topic Map engine

>>> What's new?

Version 0.21

Version 0.20

Version 0.10

>>> What is tmproc?

tmproc is an implementation of the new international standard ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps. tmproc is written in Python, and should work on any platform to which Python have been ported - including the Java Platform¹.

>>> What are Topic Maps?

'Topic Maps' is a new international standard (ISO/IEC 13250) for layering multidimensional topic spaces on top of information assets. The standard covers concepts like topics, associations, occurrences and facets/metadata. Topic Maps are expected to have a major impact on future information systems.

>>> Features

• Import, export, query and manipulation of Topic Maps.
• Full set of extensible topic map classes with clearly defined interfaces.
• Optional architectural processing [requires xmlarch].
• Introduction and reference documentation.
• Statistical and information printing classes
• Command line utility for interactive exploration

>>> Requirements

• Python 1.5.1 or newer
• An SGML/XML parser with a SAX driver
• SAX 1.0 for Python
• xmlarch 0.25, optional unless architectural processing is needed

>>> More information

See the announcement for more information.

An introduction to Topic Maps processing with tmproc is available, so is the reference documentation for the Python classes.

>>> Download

You can get it here.

>>> License

tmproc is free for both commercial and non-commercial use as long as you don't ship it with a product that you sell. If you modify the software please let me know. See the licence page for more detailed information.

>>> What's next?

• Locators is sort of a weak spot at the moment. Support for HyTime QUERYLOC is planned as a solution for supporting multiple addressing notations. This should be included in the next release.
• The addthems element form is not yet supported.
• Non-optimized query methods. Some of them have a really naïve implementation.
• Make it simpler to get up and running. A higher level import interface is probably needed.
• A test-suite should be created.

>>> Notes

1. If you would like to use this package with the Java Platform you may have to retrieve a patched version of the saxexts.py file. You can get it here.

>>> Feedback

I would very much welcome any feedback on any issue regarding this piece of software. Feedback should be sent to grove@ontopia.net.