Living with topic maps and RDF


 * topics: has topic::topic maps, has topic::RDF

Thoughts
--Christoph 23:52, 4 December 2006 (CET)
 * TMs developed in parallel to RDF, origin from book indexing.
 * The TM and RDF community have different goals: Different tools for different purposes.
 * Reification is much easier in TMs than it is in RDF
 * RDF: Statements have no identity, unless reified. Reification, however, changes the data structure of a statement.
 * Article handles constraint (= ontology) languages, but does not handle querying (= reasoning)

Quotes

 * “Topic maps were created to support high-level indexing of sets of information resources to make the information in them findable.”
 * Figure of the two standards families: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/std-families.png