Modeling Names

Paper, was published by Xuân Baldauf at 2009-11-13

The paper states that the hierarchy between topic name items and variant items of the TMDM resembles a hierarchy between names and particular renderings of names in the real world.

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This paper argues that the hierarchy between topic name items and variant items of the TMDM resembles a hierarchy between names and particular renderings of names in the real world, but for this resemblance to be a better match, topic name items should loose the requirement to always have a value property.

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Authors

Xuân Baldauf

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Xuân is involved in TM4J TopicMap Engine.

glossary

TMDM

is associated with 29 items.

TMDM is the abbreviation for Topic Maps Data Model. You will find a compact illustration of all relationships within the TMDM …

TMQL

is associated with 47 items.

TMQL is the abbreviation for Topic Maps Query Language.

XTM

is associated with 37 items.

XTM is the abbreviation for Topic Maps XML Syntax. There are currently two versions: XTM1 and XTM2.

CTM

is associated with 15 items.

CTM is the abbreviation for Topic Maps Compact Syntax. CTM is defined by ISO 13250-6, that is, part 6 of the Topic Maps standard. It’s a textual notation to describe topic maps.

Topic Maps is an excellent paradigm to support human thinking and to visualize networked information. As part of my PhD project, I therefore chose Topic Maps as the conceptual foundation for designing and implementing a software prototype for semantic knowledge retrieval.