The TAO of Topic Maps
Topic Maps are a hot topic at this year's conference. Get up to
speed on all the basic concepts, and gain an insight into some of the many
applications of topic maps at this extended pre-conference presentation, given
by the editor of XTM, the XML Topic Map specification.
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Steve Pepper
Steve Pepper is the founder and Chief Executive Officer at Ontopia, a
company dedicated to the development of high quality topic map software and the
provision of consulting and training services. Steve represents Norway on JTC
1/SC 34, the ISO committee responsible for the development of SGML and related
standards, and is convenor of WG 3 (Information association), whose
responsibilities include HyTime and Topic Maps. He participated actively in the
development of the topic map standard within ISO and is a founding member of
TopicMaps.Org and editor of XTM (the XML Topic Map specification). He was
recently appointed editor of a new ISO project to develop a Topic Map
Constraint Language. A frequent speaker at SGML, XML, and Knowledge Management
events around the world, he has recently spent much time modeling topic maps
and is the author of one of the most well-known public domain topic maps
("Ontopus' Guide to Italian Opera"). He is the author of a number of topic
map-related articles and co-author (with Charles Goldfarb and Chet Ensign) of
the "SGML Buyer's Guide" (Prentice-Hall, 1998).
