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International Conference on Topic Map Research and Applications

TMRA 2006: Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps pp 161–165Cite as

Towards Converting the Internet into Topic Maps

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This paper describes Semants, a work-in progress framework that uses the Wikipedia as focal point to collect information from various resources. Semants aims at developing several specialized applications (the ants) that are used to convert a resource into a topic map fragment that is merged into a bigger topic map.

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References

  1. Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/

  2. MediaWiki. http://mediawiki.org/

  3. Ontoworld. http://wiki.ontoworld.org/

  4. Semantic MediaWiki. http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki

  5. Topic Maps API. http://www.tmapi.org/

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  8. Barta, R., Heuer, L.: AsTMa= 2.0 Language Definition. http://astma.it.bond.edu.au/astma=-spec-2.0r1.0.dbk

  9. Fielding, R.: Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures. http://www.ics.uci.edu/fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm

  10. Heuer, L.: Semants. http://www.semants.org/

  11. International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34, Topic Maps - XML syntax (2007), http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-xtm/

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  1. Semagia, Markt 1, 27777 Ganderkesee, Germany

    Lars Heuer

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Lutz Maicher Alexander Sigel Lars Marius Garshol

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Heuer, L. (2007). Towards Converting the Internet into Topic Maps. In: Maicher, L., Sigel, A., Garshol, L.M. (eds) Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps. TMRA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4438. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71945-8_15

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