Maiana August Release covers a number of new and exciting features in Maiana. Among other things, you will find: Maiana is now running on MajorToM a “history” function for changes to a topic map a SPARQL query engine TMQL queries can be saved for later use other improvements/new features. I assume they left something to [...]

Parsing Performativity came to me by way of Sam Hunting. Read the post, then ask yourself: Is my topic map wearing a path from point A to point B? Perhaps performativity should be a measure of a topic map’s success?

CouchDB: Sell it to Your Boss from Alex Popescu. CouchDB is one of the many options in the NoSQL world. As a distributed document repository, it is of interest to users of topic maps with document stores. It is written in Erlang, a language for distributed applications, including topic maps.

Conference in Leipzig at 2010-09-28. Gegenstand der Tagung sind der Einsatz von Data und Text Mining Verfahren für die Qualitätsanalyse und –absicherung in der Automobilindustrie. Mit der zunehmenden Verfügbarkeit von Herstellerinternen und öffentlich verfügbaren Datenressourcen wie Foren und Blogs zu Automobil relevanten Themen gewinnen Data und Text Mining basierte Verfahren für die Qualitätssicherung und die frühzeitige Erkennung von Anomalien zunehmend an Bedeutung. Die Fachtagung, die in Kooperation zwischen der Daimler AG und der Volkswagen AG sowie dem Fraunhofer Institut IAIS, St. Augustin, und dem Institut für Informatik der Universität Leipzig durchgeführt wird, 2010-09-08T13:40:24Z tmlab topic@topicmapslab.de

In this presentation we present ongoing work on the development of Maven within Ontopia. Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. We will list the advantages and some of the solutions of applying Maven to your projects. We will conclude with a roadmap and hope to have some discussion. 2010-09-08T10:04:09Z Quintin Siebers and Pieter Brandwijk topic@topicmapslab.de

Topic maps rhetoric has long maintained that different domains of discourse may have different ways to identify some single subject. Topic maps provide the means to map between those different identifications, to provide a collocation point for all the information about such a subject. If different domains can have different ways to identify the same [...]

This paper presents a knowledge management design for computer center using topic maps. To solve problem of the Organization for knowledge management.Most of the problem is lack of share the knowledge,lack of create new knowledge management and lack of factor that create knowledge anagement. To bring technology of information technology to use for design and create system for help to solve those problem. This system will be tested in The Division of Repair Computer.Computer enter. Directorate of Electronics Royal Thai Air Force. PLEASE NOTE: THIS PUBLICATION IS IN THAI LANGUAGE! 2010-09-07T08:31:32Z Kittima Mekhabunchakij and Jirasak Gornmanee topic@topicmapslab.de

The Sixth Australasian Ontology Workshop will be held in conjunction with 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Adelaide, South Australia. Important dates: Submission of papers: 24 September 2010 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 22 October 2010 Final camera ready copies: 12 November 2010 Workshop date: 7 December 2010 Ontologies are used in topic maps just [...]

Experience in Extending Query Engine for Continuous Analytics by Qiming Chen and Meichun Hsu has this problem statement: Streaming analytics is a data-intensive computation chain from event streams to analysis results. In response to the rapidly growing data volume and the increasing need for lower latency, Data Stream Management Systems (DSMSs) provide a paradigm shift [...]

In some background research I ran across: One of the most important applications of fuzzy set theory is the concept of linguistic variables. A linguistic variable is a variable whose values are not numbers, but words or sentences in a natural or artificial language. The value of a linguistic variable is defined as an element [...]

With email and articles on master data management running neck and neck with Nigeria widows entrusting me with $millions of US dollars on deposit in some third country, I decided to take another (brief) look: While MDM vendors will probably tell you that the high success rate is due to their superior technology, Baseline’s Jill [...]

Wikileaks has captured the headlines with the release of Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010. I haven’t looked at the documents but document collections present the same issues for effective use. First, document semantics vary depending upon whether they are being read by their intended audience, another military command or other audience. For example, locations may be [...]

Following a rapid pace of Information Technology, the process of translating data into digital form and the utilization of computer systems have stronger momentum. A growing number of workers and companies closely depend on information systems, and naturally increase the importance of them. Although a software library can significantly contribute towards an efficient and effective development of software, to establish and apply a library is never a simple task. When a software engineer uses a library, he has to know proper procedures and details of each component. Besides, a library can frequently overlap various libraries in any software project. Obviously, it is a very important topic to clarify relations of libraries and avoid misapplication of them, as well as minimize their complexity. Data Mining is a technique which is trying to dig out worthwhile information from massive data. If we can seek valuable and useful parts from abundant facts, and adjust our action or strategy based on them, then we can fulfill every task properly and precisely. Topic Map is not only a method to provide and display thematic knowledge, but also a method to present information and relationship of multi-themes. Each theme is a name of a subject and a collection of information and concepts. With the aid of Topic Map, people can learn faster in a more visual way. This study is to investigate the relationship between libraries and programs by the methodology of Data Mining. We extract the associations and analyze them so as to form a guideline for any future refactoring. In addition, Topic Map can help software engineers to shorten the learning curve and save both programmers’ time and companies’ costs. Within our framework, we use automatic mechanisms to maintain up-to-date versions of software. After inputting source codes, we obtain relationship of programs in a project. Therefore, we can observe how programs influence each other, and predict key programs when quality of the project is concerned. Thus project engineers and library engineers can acknowledge the possible damage when a specific program breaks down, and then they can know the severity and prioritize their tasks accordingly. PLEASE NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS IN CHINESE! 2010-09-03T12:21:42Z Duen-Ren Liu and Chia-Hung Weng topic@topicmapslab.de

It is widely known that folklore collections are valuable sources to study the tradition of specific groups of people and places, since they contain various kinds of material. Nowadays, many digitization projects have taken place to preserve and expose the cultural features of a country in the web. An important part of a digitization project is the development and design of the right metadata schema to satisfy user’s information needs. Many metadata standards have been developed to preserve and describe cultural heritage collections, providing to users rich information but without being compatible with each other. This has caused problems both in users and systems, since the differences of the holding institutions and of the metadata schemas in syntax and semantics prevent the retrieval of information from heterogeneous resources. The doctoral dissertation thesis approaches in theoretical and practical way the policy for designing a metadata model to document digital folklore collections. More specifically, the requirements that a metadata model needs to cover for compound digital folklore collections are analyzed and the various metadata standards and the most common methods for metadata interoperability are presented. Further, a multi-layer metadata model is analyzed, that integrates elements from various metadata models ensuring efficient and meaningful information retrieval from collection objects. Another interesting point being discussed is the representation of the dynamic character and the multiple facets of information that the cultural heritage objects hold. Time, place, language, user profile and level of detail are some of the perspectives under which a folklore collection is examined. At last, considering the variety of metadata schemas and the increasing demand for access to highly distributed, heterogeneous and dynamic collections, emphasis is given to matters of metadata interoperability and integration mostly at semantic level. As a first solution to this problem Topic Maps are applied to facilitate crosswalks between metadata schemas and secondly ontologies are proposed to work as mediators between various collection-level descriptions. The results of this thesis include: (a) a well-defined metadata model for describing folklore material, (b) representation of semantic and administrative context-dependent information of collections and objects and © the interoperability of the proposed metadata model with international metadata schemas. PLEASE NOTE: THIS THESIS IS IN GREEK! 2010-09-03T12:05:02Z Irene Lourdi topic@topicmapslab.de

The aim of this paper is to show a new model (under development by the E-Learning & Knowledge Management Laboratory at the University of Genoa) for designing and developing units of learning. The idea behind this model comes from the analysis of the difficulties and problems that teachers have in their work during the instructional design of courses and training aids, and from a study on the latest semantic web technologies in order to support the sharing and the retrieval of web learning resources. The authors will also present the draft version of CADDIE (Content Automated Design & Development Integrated Editor), a software tool under development at the E-Learning & Knowledge Management Laboratory of the University of Genoa, whose core is based on the model described here and whose aim is to provide an innovative solution to the learning content of the instructional design process, based on an ontological structure. 2010-09-03T11:43:32Z Giovanni Adorni, Giuliano Vivanet, and Diego Brondo topic@topicmapslab.de

When developing Web Parts for SharePoint 2010 it is hard, if not even impossible to some extent, to unit test the Web Parts that you create with the Visual Studio Item Templates that are shipped with Visual Studio 2010. The reason for this is a poor design decision which caused a bad separation of concerns (SoC) in how the web parts are put together. If you are serious about Test-driven

Why do we call it ‘The Semantic Web? The web is nothing but a collection of electronic files. Where is the “semantic” in those files? (Even with linking, same question.) Where was the “semantic” in Egyptian hieroglyphic texts? They had one semantic in the view of Horapollo, Atahanasius Kircher, and others. They have a different [...]

The Maiana team proudly presents a new version of Maiana including the following features: MaJorToM: Since a few weeks ago, Maiana is using MaJorToM as the underlying Topic Maps engine. This change concerns all “Upload” and “URL” maps. As a start, these maps offer the history functionality that MaJorToM implements (see below for more information). History of changes in a topic map: From now on, changes like creating a topic, updating a name or occurrence… may be monitored in the “History” tab of a topic map. This is accomplished through MaJorToMs revision index. About page: This page gives credit to all libraries Maiana benefits from. Policy: a map may be queried if the downloadable flag is set. The owner of a map may change this privacy setting in the “Settings” tab of the topic map. Query maps with SPARQL: Next to TMQL4J as TMQL query engine we now offer an implementation of a SPARQL query engine. By the way, the query may be given as parameter, also (help). Feedback is very welcome. Saving TMQL queries: Writing queries is time consuming. So, try saving them before executing them :). You need to be logged in to make use of this feature. TMQL Tutorials: Also, if you are interested in TMQL you should have a look at our TMQL tutorial that consists of several parts. Again, you’ll find the link in the TMQL tab of every downloadable Maiana map, for example in the Opera Topic Map. Editing of occurrences: Next to name values, the owner of an “Upload” or “URL” map may edit occurrence values. Please be aware that Maiana still runs in-memory and that changes are reverted on server restart. The owner may also reload her topic map. Mappify: “URL” maps are accepting Wikipedia and DBpedia URLs from now on and are using Mappify to download the topic map source file. XTM 2.1 Export: The TMAPIX 0.4.0-Snapshot enables Maiana to offer exporting a topic map as xtm version 2.1. If a map is set as downloadable you’ll find this feature in the “map download” tab. Maiana’s API: The API enables programs to communicate with Maiana using the API key that was waiting in the profile of each user to fulfill its purpose. For now, “URL” maps may be created, updated, listed, downloaded and removed and TMQL may be executed. Additionally, update statements to update a map with TMQL are allowed for the owner of the map. See the Maiana (public) wiki for more information. If you have any question don’t hesitate to write us. 2010-09-02T14:25:53Z Uta Schulze news@topicmapslab.de

Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition (Joint IAPR International Workshop, SSPR&SPR 2010, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey, August 18-20, 2010. Proceedings) edited by: Edwin R. Hancock, Richard C. Wilson, Terry Windeatt, Ilkay Ulusoy, and, Francisco Escolano. Pattern recognition is a first step towards assisting users in the subject recognition process that results in a topic map. Content-Based [...]

OpenOntologyRepository IPR/Discussion Ontolog series promises to be an interesting discussion of IPR issues in the context of ontology development. The wiki-page offers a variety of resources on IPR issues. ONTOLOG (a.k.a. “Ontolog Forum”) is an open, international, virtual community of practice devoted to advancing the field of ontology, ontological engineering and semantic devoted to advancing [...]