The "integrated experience":

  • AsTMa= factual maps
    • optimized for human authoring
    • no interchange syntax, not orthogonal by design
  • AsTMa! constraint language
    • ambitions to be an ontology definition language
    • (whatever an ontology is exactly)
    • ultimate goal is a TM flavoured DL (description logic)
    • constraints are exactly this: a filter on a factual map
    • contains AsTMa=
  • AsTMa? query language
    • retrieval, query for TM based storage
    • language can transform TM content into strings, lists, XML, RDF and TM data
    • uses AsTMa! constraints
  • AsTMa+ update language
    • update of maps (and ontologies, and queries, and updates)
    • uses AsTMa= and AsTMa?