Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed "the GPS of the information universe", topic maps are also destined to provide powerful new ways of navigating large and interconnected corpora. While it is possible to represent immensely complex structures
using topic maps, the basic concepts of the model -- Topics,
Associations, and Occurrences (TAO) -- are easily grasped. This
paper provides a non-technical introduction to these and other
concepts (the IFS and BUTS of topic maps), relating them to things
that are familiar to all of us from the realms of publishing and
information management, and attempting to convey some idea of the
uses to which topic maps will be put in the future.
%0 Generic
%1 Pepper00TAO_of_TM
%A Pepper, Steve
%D 2000
%K Introduction Maps TM Topic TAO Article
%T The TAO of Topic Maps: Finding the Way in the Age of Infoglut
%U http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/pepper00tao.html
%X Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed "the GPS of the information universe", topic maps are also destined to provide powerful new ways of navigating large and interconnected corpora. While it is possible to represent immensely complex structures
using topic maps, the basic concepts of the model -- Topics,
Associations, and Occurrences (TAO) -- are easily grasped. This
paper provides a non-technical introduction to these and other
concepts (the IFS and BUTS of topic maps), relating them to things
that are familiar to all of us from the realms of publishing and
information management, and attempting to convey some idea of the
uses to which topic maps will be put in the future.
@misc{Pepper00TAO_of_TM,
abstract = {Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed "the GPS of the information universe", topic maps are also destined to provide powerful new ways of navigating large and interconnected corpora. While it is possible to represent immensely complex structures
using topic maps, the basic concepts of the model -- Topics,
Associations, and Occurrences (TAO) -- are easily grasped. This
paper provides a non-technical introduction to these and other
concepts (the IFS and BUTS of topic maps), relating them to things
that are familiar to all of us from the realms of publishing and
information management, and attempting to convey some idea of the
uses to which topic maps will be put in the future.},
added-at = {2006-10-18T18:24:55.000+0200},
author = {Pepper, Steve},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2763c2e507195c62091f4713cba05ffaa/hpeter},
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keywords = {Introduction Maps TM Topic TAO Article},
month = {April},
timestamp = {2006-10-18T18:24:55.000+0200},
title = {{The TAO of Topic Maps: Finding the Way in the Age of Infoglut}},
url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/pepper00tao.html},
year = 2000
}