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CONTENT AGGREGATION USING TOPIC MAPS

A one-day seminar presented by Michel Biezunski and Steven R. Newcomb (Coolheads Consulting).

This seminar is for decision makers who are interested in learning how to manage and exploit increasingly massive and diverse information source in terms of the
meanings and relevancies of their contents. If the volume and/or diversity of your information resources are preventing you from fully exploiting them, you will
find this seminar eye-opening and valuable.

We will focus on how the Topic Maps standard (ISO 13250) suggests and implies solutions. With this paradigm, ontologies become interchangeable on a global
scale, but more significantly, the contents of different knowledge bases can be usefully merged on an ongoing basis, even if they are designed and maintained
independently of one another.

We will describe existing Topic Map projects, highlighting their semantic integration aspects. We will discuss how information management policies can preserve the independence and value of heterogeneous, multi-lingual, multi-perspective approaches, even while fulfilling requirements for usefulness in new markets and for enterprise integration and transparency.

Syllabus:

• The problem of information interchange. The issues: where we are in respect to the ability to transmit meaning.
• What XML can do, and what it can't
• Scaling issues
  • Central repositories and user community boundaries
  • Diversity: e.g. multilingual aspects of information
• The Topic Map Paradigm as a Solution to transmit meaning
  • High level, neutral constructs: The topic-based high-level model
  • The underlying machinery: assertion-based model
• Case studies

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