XML Topic Maps (XTM) The GPS of the Web Eric Freese Chair, TopicMaps.Org

TopicMaps.Org - Background First meeting January 2000 Chartered June 2000 Goal: XML Topic Maps – ISO13250 for the Web Currently hosted by GCA IDEAlliance Four sponsor companies empolis, Infoloom, Mondeca, Ontopia Several authoring group meetings Countless hours between meetings

TopicMaps.Org Independent Organized and ruled by the geeks Authoring Group is the core power of the organization Chair organizes and facilitates meetings/discussions Editor responsible for published works Currently 14 Participating AG Members Users, researchers, academics, vendors

XTM 1.0 Authoring started in June 2000 Authoring Group review draft presented at XML 2000 – December 4, 2000 Core specification Processing model Published subject identifiers Final specification adopted – February 17, 2001 Collector’s edition distributed at this conference from participating sponsors at their displays

XTM 1.0 – The Spec Topic Maps Concepts Overview Gentle Introduction Syntax Documentation Annexes Conceptual Model XTM DTD Core PSIs Processing Requirements to XTM Transformation

Future Plans Building the topic map community Driving topic map adoption and implementation Continued work with RDF community Interchange/interoperability Unification? Work with other knowledge representation paradigms

Future Plans – cont. Completion/publication of processing model Development of template specification Update/enhancement of PSI documents Publication of technical notes and reports

For more info… WWW: Vendor displays at this conference