Hi John! Could you provide some links on how the Topic Maps are used in modern wikis and information systems? There is a big family of Semantic Extensions [1] that allow to export wikipages to RDF, isn't this enough?
[1] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:SMW_extensions ----- Yury Katkov On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:53 AM, John McClure <[email protected]> wrote: > Adding Topic Maps to MW base software could be a winner -- it can generate a > wiki-site map (some think WP needs one!); it can be used to corelate the > contents of documents loaded into a wiki (like conference proceedings) with > a wiki's topic map; and would make a cool tool for any page in a wiki, most > clearly on a user page. It's perhaps a smart strategic move - ISO 82250 > Topic Maps are the fruit of SGML/Hytime n-ary models that 'lost' to RDF > triples back when. Being a superset of RDF, TMs can type associations > between articles while capturing all infobox data. > > Topic maps may be a compelling FUNCTIONAL upgrade for MW as it captures > subjects of an article for the first time. Given topic-map to RDF transforms > amid continuing W3 research, this could be enough for the semantic world. By > adopting say the Lib of Congress' Subject Headings, a wiki like Wikipedia > could play an important role in the semantic web. The current situation with > Wikipedia is that it's hard to have a large library of information without a > subject catalogue... right now, wikis have an author catalogue sort of, fine > for smaller hadcrafted wikis but doesn't scale well for many. > > Since other platforms now have maturing topic map extensions I'm worried the > impact on wikis not to have that technology. > > John McClure > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
