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Topic Maps for subject-centric publishing from document-centric content management systems - a case study on a website of a regional cluster of companies
Article, was published by Gerhard Weber, Ralf Eilbracht, and Stefan Kesberg at 2010-09-30
Content management systems (CMS) based on document-centric information architectures come with high costs of linking content between documents. Consequently, websites published from such systems provide these links in low numbers only, leaving users with the daunting task of connecting the dots between subjects represented as isolated text fragments in different documents. With the commercial use case of a website publishing member information of a regional cluster of companies, we demonstrate how a Topic Maps-based web frontend on top of a CMS upgrades content to a subject-centric network of knowledge models, and thus multiplies the numbers of access paths, of defined, navigable, and retrievable associations between represented subjects, as well as of available views. This added value comes without added effort for manually editing and maintaining content, and – for web sites hitherto relying on manual link creation and maintenance – even reduces this cost factor.
Authors
Gerhard Weber
http://www.nexxor.de/dr-gerhard-weber/
Gerhard is project leader of topicWorks Domains, BioRegio STERN-Navigator, and topicmapsforge.org. He is involved in topicWorks Excel-Plugin.
Ralf Eilbracht
http://www.nexxor.de/ralf-eilbracht/
Ralf is project leader of topicWorks Excel-Plugin. He is involved in TMAPI.Net, BioRegio STERN-Navigator, topicmapsforge.org, and PivotViewer.
Stefan Kesberg
http://www.nexxor.de/stefan-kesberg/
Stefan is project leader of topicWorks Broker and topicWorks Navigator.
Presented at
TMRA 2010
Conference in Leipzig from 2010-09-29 to 2010-10-01
With Linked Topic Maps the motto of the TMRA 2009 conference was about spinning a global web of interchangeable and linkable topic maps. Linked …
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As a former information scientist, I am fascinated since 1999 by the capabilities for building Topic Maps-based knowledge systems having the potential to augment human mind. One can model arbitrary knowledge organization systems, deal with semantic heterogeneity, collocate all facts about one subject in one logical place, and with TMQL have semantic retrieval on federated semantic networks. Therefore I expect bright prospects for business concepts building on the exchange of such knowledge snippets via semantic knowledge services.