Let there be Light
Book Chapter, was published by Jack Park at 2002-07-01
It is not specifically topic maps that are heady stuff. Not even the new XTM specification. It’s the World Wide Web, in particular, the Semantic Web aspect of it, that’s heady stuff, together with all the stuff we’ve written. Topic maps are part of the Semantic Web; of course, topic maps are not the whole story, but certainly XTM is destined to be an important tool in the vast and growing armamentarium emerging under the Semantic Web moniker. We have seen the Web grow from being a space where technical papers were shared to a space where just about everything humans think about is somehow covered by one or a zillion Web site. And, in human interaction, we have acperienced information overload. Indeed, information overload appears to be ubiquitous.
References:
Jack Park: Let there be light. In: Park, J. and Hunting, S.: XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web. Boston, Addison Wesley, 2002. pp. 1-16
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Topic Maps aware search adds an important and efficient access path both to information, and to the knowledge represented in our application systems.
