Charting the Topic Maps Research and Applications Landscape

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Topic Map Research and Applications, held in October 2005. The 17 revised full papers and five revised short papers presented together with one invited lecture were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from more than 35 submissions. One of the goals of the workshop is to survey and structure the field of topic map research and the emerging topic map technologies.

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Topic Mapping: A View of the Road Ahead.- Metamorphosis - A Topic Maps Based Environment to Handle Heterogeneous Information Resources.- Concept Glossary Manager - Topic Maps Engine and Navigator.- Application Framework Based on Topic Maps.- TMRAP - Topic Maps Remote Access Protocol.- Replication of Published Subject Indicator as Thesaurus by Means of LDAP.- Topic Map Exchange in the Absence of Shared Vocabularies.- Conceptual Modeling of Topic Maps with ORM Versus UML.- Topic Maps for Image Collections.- Real-Time Generation of Topic Maps from Speech Streams.- A Case for Polyscopic Structuring of Information.- Subject Centric IT in Local Government.- Just for Me: Topic Maps and Ontologies.- Rebuilding Virtual Study Environments Using Topic Maps.- Collaborative Software Development and Topic Maps.- Topic Maps for European Administrative Nomenclature.- tolog - A Topic Maps Query Language.- A TMDM Disclosure Using T?+?.- TM/XML - Topic Maps Fragments in XML.- Navigating Through Archives, Libraries and Museums: Topic Maps as a Harmonizing Instrument.- MARCXTM: Topic Maps Modeling of MARC Bibliographic Information.- Improving Information Retrieval Using XML and Topic Maps.- Visualizing Search Results from Metadata-Enabled Repositories in Cultural Domains.- Report on the Open Space Sessions.