TMRA 2007: Leipzig, Germany

Lutz Maicher, Lars Marius Garshol (Eds.): Scaling Topic Maps, Third International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, TMRA 2007, Leipzig, Germany, October 11-12, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4999 Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-70873-5

Marc Wilhelm Küster, Graham Moore:
Scaling Topic Maps. 1-13

Applied Topic Maps in Industry and Administration

Stefan Smolnik:
Convergence of Classical Search and Semantic Technologies - Evidences from a Practical Case in the Chemical Industry. 14-24
Lars Marius Garshol:
A Citizen's Portal for the City of Bergen. 25-35

Visualisation and Representation of Topic Maps

Hendrik Thomas, Rike Brecht, Bernd Markscheffel, Stephan Bode, Karsten Spekowius:
TMchartis- A Tool Set for Designing Multiple Problem-Oriented Visualizations for Topic Maps. 36-40
Lars Johnsen:
Open Educational Topic Maps: A Text-Oriented Perspective. 41-50
Eicke Godehardt, Nadeem Bhatti:
Using Topic Maps for Visually Exploring Various Data Sources in a Web-Based Environment. 51-56

Collaborative Applications

Robert Cerny:
Topincs Wiki - A Topic Maps Powered Wiki. 57-65
Tobias Hofmann, Martin Pradella:
Bookmap - A Topic Maps Based Web Application for Organising Bookmarks. 66-73

Standards Related Research

Lars Marius Garshol:
A Theory of Scope. 74-85
Giovani Rubert Librelotto, Renato Preigschadt de Azevedo, José Carlos Ramalho, Pedro Rangel Henriques:
Comparing Topic Maps Constraint Specification Languages. 86-97

Information Integration with Topic Maps

Robert A. Barta:
Knowledge-Oriented Middleware Using Topic Maps. 98-115
Volker Stümpflen, Thorsten Barnickel, Karamfilka Nenova:
Large Scale Knowledge Representation of Distributed Biomedical Information. 116-127
Markus Ueberall, Oswald Drobnik:
Versioning of Topic Map Templates and Scalability. 128-139

Social Software with Topic Maps

Jack Park:
Toward a Topic Maps Amanuensis. 140-153
L'Hédi Zaher, Jean-Pierre Cahier, Claude Guittard:
Cooperative Building of Multiple Points-of-View Topic Maps with Hypertopic. 154-159
Roy Lachica, Dino Karabeg:
Metadata Creation in Socio-semantic Tagging Systems: Towards Holistic Knowledge Creation and Interchange. 160-171

Topic Maps Engines

Benjamin Bock:
Ruby Topic Maps. 172-185

Topic Maps and Dublin Core

Steve Pepper:
Expressing Dublin Core in Topic Maps. 186-197
Lutz Maicher:
Mapping between the Dublin Core Abstract Model DCAM and the TMDM. 198-213

Information Management with Topic Maps

Jens Heider, Julian Schütte:
On Path-Centric Navigation and Search Techniques for Personal Knowledge Stored in Topic Maps. 214-225
Atta Badii, Chattun Lallah, Oleksandr Kolomiyets, Meng Zhu, Michael Crouch:
KAIFIA: Knowledge Assisted Intelligent Framework for Information Access. 226-236

Open Space and Poster Sessions

Lars Marius Garshol, Lutz Maicher:
Report from the Open Space and Poster Sessions. 237-251