The Economics of the Topic Maps Reference Model

»Steven R. Newcomb Ph.D., »Coolheads Consulting

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Abstract

The draft ISO standard Reference Model of the Topic Maps paradigm meets technical requirements that are strikingly parallel to the same economic principles that are evidently most conducive to worldwide economic growth.

Keywords

»Data Interchange, »Design, »Distributed Systems, »E-business, »E-Government, »Enterprise Applications, »Enterprise Content Management, »Internet, »Interoperability, »ISO 13250, »ISO Reference Model, »Knowledge Management, »Metadata, »Ontology, »Publishing, »RDF, »Semantic Web, »SGML, »Structure, »Topic Maps, »WWW, »XML.