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The Ontopia Knowledge Suite: Applying Knowledge Technologies to Combat Infoglut

Abstract

Business challenges such as infoglut and knowledge management can only be solved by moving beyond traditional information management, through the capture of semantics and the use of sharable ontologies. Topic maps do just that. Ontopia offers topic map technology that can be applied to make information easier to find, to improve web and wireless services, to enable the capture and reuse of corporate memory, and to simplify the integration of information and applications. The Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS), first released in May 2001, has evolved into the most complete set of tools for building topic map applications. This session will introduce version 1.3, which now features support for queries and constraints, and focus particularly on mining topic maps with the MapMaker(TM) toolkit, on the new Web Editor Framework for building topic map editing applications, and on using the OKS to power Knowledge Asset Portals.


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Biography

Steve Pepper is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ontopia, a company that provides topic map software, consulting, and training services. Steve represents Norway on JTC1/SC34, the ISO committee responsible for the development of SGML and related standards, and is convenor of WG3 (Information Association), whose responsibilities include the HyTime and Topic Map standards. He is the editor of the XML Topic Map specification (XTM) and the author of numerous papers and presentations on topic map-related subjects, including the well-known "TAO of Topic Maps". A frequent speaker at SGML, XML, and knowledge management events around the world, Steve was for many years the author and maintainer of the "Whirlwind Guide to SGML and XML tools". He also co-authored (with Charles Goldfarb and Chet Ensign) the "SGML Buyer's Guide" (Prentice-Hall, 1998).